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This summarizes my iPhone SDK experience:

In other words, after installing the iPhone SDK, I experienced massive screen artifacts. Behind the mess on-screen here is Safari.
I used Time Machine to restore my /System/Library/Extensions folder (the iPhone SDK installs several kexts), rebooted, and all is well. I doubt I'll be doing much iPhone development anyway until Interface [...]

I have only one iPhone SDK question: Is it possible and/or easy to synchronize data with desktop computers?
I ask because the first application we intend to make for the iPhone is an add-on for Scorecard. It will allow users to enter their stats on the golf course, then ideally to "synchronize" them with the desktop [...]

Brad, on his personal blog, is posting a few Cyndicate tips. The first article deals with granularity (i.e. "articles" are better than "feeds") while the second deals with organization.
NewsFire went free this week, which is fine. It's a fine app if you subscribe to a few items. We believe Cyndicate still has its place as [...]

Delicious Cut and Run

I agree with most of what Matt Ball has to say in this article. The people of whom he speaks seem to develop software because they feel they can make money from it, not because they personally need the software. Building software you yourself would and do use is one of the keys to long-term [...]

In no particular order…
Free Software for Apple Employees
If you're an Apple employee (with an @apple.com or @filemaker.com email address), simply drop by http://cynicalpeak.com/apple/ to claim a free copy of Cyndicate or Scorecard (or both!). It's our gift to Apple employees for all the hard work they've put in, and it doesn't matter if you're a [...]

CoreImage Transcoding

CoreImage: slow?
We're finding that as we work on Rivet the bottleneck isn't the network, but the image itself. We're performing two operations: resizing (to the larger of 1920 x 1080) and compressing (currently, the options are none, 90, 70, 50, and 30). These operations all seem to take about the same amount of time, and [...]

Rivet

X360 is now named Rivet.
And that's all I have to say about that now. Hopefully we'll have a beta in the next week or two.
P.S. Scorecard for Windows is nearly done.

X360

If you have an Xbox 360 and a Mac, and are interested in beta testing an application that, uhhh, "connects" them, please leave some contact information in the comments. Thanks.

The XML file iTunes produces has one fatal flaw: it doesn't tell you which song is checked and which is not. Unfortunately, Brad and I need to get the "checked or not" information as well. Does anyone know the fastest and/or "best" way to do so?
P.S. We're doing the parsing in straight C, currently, but [...]

MacSanta is now offering 20% discounts on Cynical Peak software, including Cyndicate and Scorecard. To get your 20% off, use the coupon code "MACSANTA07" at checkout.
This deal is good today, December 23, only. A 10% discount is offered the rest of December with the coupon code "MACSANTA07TEN."

Cyndicate 1.1 is now available. This is a free update for all Cyndicate users.
This release is mainly bug fixes with a few nice little features added in (like the ability to set what count the dock will show), auto-scrolling of the article list when you reach the top or bottom, and video attachments to YouTube's [...]

PHP to PDF

Just a link for my own future knowledge. Thanks Alex.
And no doubt my arm would be tired if I had to write the above out.

Has anyone used a Cocoa graphics framework that's capable of drawing things like line, pie, and bar graphs?

As Brad notes at the Cynical Peak Blog, Cyndicate 1.0.4 beta is available. The beta fixes all known Leopard issues, so users running Mac OS X 10.5 will probably want to try this build out immediately. It fixes a few other issues as well: parsing incorrect Atom 0.3 feeds, a small memory leak, and some [...]

Woot! Steve speaketh.

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