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Perhaps I've missed some sarcasm, or I am not quite getting it, but I disagree quite a bit with this, what… "rant." As someone who's recently seeded "software amongst reviewers/ bloggers/ journalists," as well as someone who's reviewed software for MacAddict and his own 'zine (Apple Wizards), I certainly speak from experience here. I'm usually […]

I've got some code for a GUI app I never finished. The logic is done, the UI is hell. The logic is more a process than anything else. I'd like to convert it to a console app to be run on the command line. Unfortunately, I lack the time right now to do so, what […]

PulpFiction: ADVance (i.e. 1.0b5) has been seeded to beta testers. We're also sending advance copies to a few of your favorite or most prominent Mac bloggers, so look for some PulpFiction coverage around the Web this week. If you're interested in adding badges to your site, grab 'em here. You may also want to read […]

Oddly, I've found a problem with TypeIt4Me today. A lot of our software display a "join our eList" dialog at launch time. If TypeIt4Me is installed and active and you click "Cancel" or press escape, this nearly always results in a crash. Switching back to "U.S." or another language as your input method yields proper […]

In Mail, when you drag a message one way, the drawer opens on that side, and vice versa. There's a bit of a "dead zone" in the middle where a drawer doesn't open at all, but clearly that depends on the initial location of the click-down: towards the side of the window and the dead […]

Just a quick note, given that I'm getting TrackBacks like this: Still no word on the beta of the new rss reader for OS X, PulpFiction. I never said there'd be a public beta. PulpFiction entered beta testing a few days early, in fact, and we've got less than 40 bugs remaining in our bug […]

Geek Patrol has finished its review of Rock Star. The verdict? 9/10. I'd like to say we couldn't be happier, but we did only get a 9! 🙂

I'll probably reference this post around May 15, but I designed some PulpFiction badges today: Grab them as you wish. Host them on your server. Link them to this page.

I sold Cocoa Dev Central to Scott Stevenson back in December because I found myself with a startling lack of free time. The content was languishing, the design was poor, and the site was suffering. Scott has been working for a few months and late last night produced the first article: Introduction to Bindings. The […]

The top 25 slogans. I pared down the list by deleting those that didn't have much immediate appeal. From here I will find some way to narrow the list down to 10, at which point I'm going to use a patent-pending decision-making algorithm to help me choose the best. Andy, Brad, and Nick will as […]

Want to win $25 in iTunes music gift certificates? I'm having a little contest. The rules are very simple: rewrite one page on Freshly Squeezed Software's site. The Rock Star page is pretty darn bland - pictures of a keyboard and a television? It doesn't pop. It's got no sizzle. The MailDrop and FTPeel pages […]

Freshly Squeezed Software is pleased to announce that Rock Star 1.1 is now available. Slow down or turn off disappearance of choices. Adjust the length of party games. Automatically pauses iTunes when launched. Reworked high scores screen. Fixed a few bugs and whatnot. We're continuing our special $9 pricing to celebrate the fact that we're […]

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Interface Builder? The pain in the ass better known as "trying to set a table view to use a certain font." The fonts panel doesn't update itself to reflect the current selection, the table view itself doesn't seem to update itself until you click off on another item - […]

PulpFiction beta testing continues. We've filled all of the slots, so don't ask to sign up. We've also just broken beneath the 100-bug threshhold. The vast majority of the bugs are nitpicky things - the exact kinds of things we care about a great deal as Mac users. Some of them can be fixed by […]

I stumbled onto this post on coding conventions at a great time: I spent quite a few hours yesterday poking around PulpFiction's .h and .m files looking for quickie things to fix, comment, or otherwise KISS. My personal coding style closely mirrors that espoused at the page above, but as I looked through our code, […]