Well, PegJump is finally live and available in the App Store. So far it's been getting some awesome reviews, and people seem to enjoy it. It seems that many people would like a timer. This is something I considered initially, but left out for the sake of getting this thing released. Today I went ahead and built in a timer, as well as optional sounds for peg movements. Version 1.2 is ready, and will hopefully be available as soon as I can get apple to accept the upload of the updated version. |
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I've been watching intently all the news about the AppStore and iPhone firmware 2.0 since it all started coming down the pipe early this morning. Leo Laporte has been covering news about everything iPhone for the last half a day or so over at TwitLive.tv. I called in, and got through to Leo much quicker than expected, in fact...I wasn't sure I expected to get through at all. We had a brief chat about some of the things he had spoken to Erica Sadun earlier in the night: the apparent affinity for big developers and horrible UI (some of them one in the same). I feel like a large portion of the applications are seriously lacking in any sort of Macintosh inspired "user experience". I hope this is just a bad first showing, and we'll see attrition take it's effect over the long haul. Huge thanks to Leo for taking a moment to talk to me, and also for showing Dashbuster and the SeventyNineLines webpage on the live feed. |
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I recently came across a post at LifeHacker about putting your iCal calendar on your desktop using Reminder, and Adam Laiacano's iCal2Reminder script. I had seen GeekTool stories before, and while interesting, it seemed like an app that would ever become anything more than a novelty for me. On the other hand, constantly reinforcing the things I need to do by putting my ical in front of me all day is the kind of thing I can really use in my day. The blog post that accompanies Adam's script is a great GeekTool/Reminder/iCal2Reminder tutorial all around, and I definitely recommend it. The only downside is that manually running an applescript in order to sync iCal and Reminder is a bit of a pain. As involved with cocoa as I've been lately, it's been almost exclusively on the iPhone, and I figured this would be a great opportunity to dive in and familiarize myself with some more Mac oriented cocoa coding. So I went ahead and wrote a wrapper of sorts for the iCal2Reminder applescript. You can grab the current version here. (instructions after the break) iCalWatch runs in the background, and adds itself as a startup item. Closing iCal causes the iCal2Reminder script to run. iCalWatch is a little rough around the edges, a thrown together solution to a problem. Feedback is welcome. |
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