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My name is Kenneth and I write cool Mac and iPhone software. This is my personal weblog where I post about stuff I find interesting. I usually write about Mac development, the business of shareware and the Mac community in general.

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Introducing Econ, the screensaver that uses you icons!

Note: This screenshot is UGLY. Screen capture just wouldn’t capture a smooth image…
Click on the screenshot to get a nice QuickTime preview of the screensaver.
Econ is Leopard-only and requires a decent graphics card & CPU.
Download Econ

Trail-ware limitation

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A topic I feel strongly about is trial-ware limitation. The most used solution these day is time limitation, and I hate it.
On the MacSB mailing list:
Hi all,
I’ve got a client who really wants me to work up an expiring trial-ware system
for one of their
apps.
However, I have to say that I’m always really wary of such […]

Untweeting from your Mac

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Daniel Jalkut of Red-Sweater created a really useful script that adds an Undo functionality to Twitterrific.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could undo a tweet from right in Twitterrific? You can, with my spanking new script: Undo Tweet. This script requires FastScripts by default, but can be easily modified to use “display dialog” instead of […]

Exces 1.1.2

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Update time: Exces 1.1.2 is out!
This is a minor revision which fixes a small bug and updates the About window (which also had a bug).

LangSwitch

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LangSwitch, or how to test your app’s localization.
One of the things I hate about Cocoa is its localization system. The first time you look at it, it looks really great. I mean, compared to REALBasic, or Java, or even Qt… at least it has one. But, you see, the problem is that sometimes it creates […]