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Growl developers describe the app's major changes

by Steven Sande (Nov 13th, 2011)

Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X, was recently updated to version 1.3. While "dot updates" to apps usually don't signal a major change, that's not the case with the latest version of Growl. In a post on the Growl blog, the team described the major changes that have taken ...

DevJuice: HockeyApp improves crash reports, beta testing

by Erica Sadun (Oct 10th, 2011)

You may be familiar with the well-respected TestFlight beta distribution service. Now, HockeyApp has arrived on the scene to give TestFlight a little competition. TUAW sat down with its developer to discover what the service might mean to you. Like TestFlight, HockeyApp offers a core beta ...

Daily Mac App: Adium

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 6th, 2011)

Instant messaging is an essential part of modern communications. On the Mac, we're blessed with the excellent iChat, but Apple's built-in IM solution doesn't connect to every protocol, so that's when we turn to Adium. Adium is a great long-standing piece of open-source Mac software. The ...

Happy 10th birthday, WebKit!

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2011)

As AppleOutsider notes, the WebKit engine that powers both Safari and Chrome, as well as the browsers on the iPhone and the iPad, turned ten years old yesterday. We meant to mark the occasion on the date itself, but unforeseen circumstances forced us to juggle things around a bit. Sorry about ...

Backblaze supports Lion, updates Storage Pod project

by Steven Sande (Jul 22nd, 2011)

A couple of years ago, the folks at cloud backup provider Backblaze made their Backblaze Storage Pod design an open source project. For around US$7900, you could make your own 67 TB RAID 6 array, and combining 15 of the arrays would give you about a petabyte of storage at a cost of around ...

Interview: Growl's project lead on coming to the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

After the news yesterday that the popular notification service Growl was officially coming to the Mac App Store with the release of OS X Lion, TUAW tracked down Project Lead Christopher Forsythe and had a quick conversation about the reasons behind the decision and the future of Growl in ...

Miro 4 bumps up media management & Android sync

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2011)

The Mac media management application formerly known as Democracy Player has been around for a good while; since 2007, it's been called Miro and has offered solid podcatching, BitTorrent and video viewing features in a convenient open-source application. The current version of the app, 4.0.1, ...

Apple approves Canabalt clone

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 5th, 2011)

Late last year, the developer who created popular indie game Canabalt released the game's source code under an MIT open source license. This license lets other developers use the underlying game engine to power their own games for either private or commercial distribution. While the underlying ...

Counterfeit version of open source game Lugaru HD being sold on Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Another developer is offering Wolfire Game's Lugaru HD title on the Mac App Store for 1/5 of what the official game is selling for. How? As per the terms of the Humble Indie Bundle a while back, Wolfire decided to open source the game, though not its assets or characters, and the other version on ...

Hunting for open GameKit solutions

by Erica Sadun (Feb 1st, 2011)

On iOS, GameKit offers a simple way for applications to connect to each other using ad-hoc peer-to-peer communication without having to be connected to a common network. Despite its name, GameKit has been used for many non-gaming purposes as well as for games. These include contact information ...

Popular indie game Canabalt goes open source

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 31st, 2010)

The developers behind Canabalt confirmed that the game's source code will be made available as part of an open source project. The game will be licensed under the MIT Open Source license, which will let other developers use the engine source code in its entirety for both personal and commercial ...

Hackety Hack: A gift to aspiring Ruby programmers

by Rick Martin (Dec 27th, 2010)

As a perpetual programmer wannabe, I'm always on the lookout for new tools that make the mysteries of coding a little more accessible. Much to my dismay, most programming tutorials that I've come across assume some prior knowledge or that you're transitioning from some other language. So, I was ...

Notational Velocity ALT adds Markdown support and widescreen view

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 12th, 2010)

The runaway success of the iPad has provoked significant demand amongst people who want to seamlessly edit cloud-synced files across their iOS devices and their computers. We've seen a lot of apps vying to be the iOS part of that solution (such as SimpleNote, Elements, WriteRoom, Edito and a whole ...

iPad may soon run Android via OpeniBoot

by David Quilty (Nov 12th, 2010)

Not entirely psyched about your iPad because of its lack of Adobe Flash support, or unhappy with the iOS operating system itself? How about installing Android on it instead? OpeniBoot, an open source implementation of iBoot for Apple iOS devices, is on a mission to bring the Android OS to the iPad ...

Dissecting Android's openness

by Richard Gaywood (Nov 8th, 2010)

Oh, Steve Jobs, you certainly do know how to get tongues wagging. During last quarter's earnings call he attacked Google's stance that Android is the superior mobile OS because it is "open," restating the debate into terms of "integrated versus fragmented" instead -- with iOS on the integrated ...