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Author: Conor

  • Conditionally Building Mac App Store Applications to Exclude Sparkle

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    A lot of developers are in the process of rebuilding their apps for the Mac App Store. One of the guidelines is not using any update mechanism and leaving the updating to the App Store. Like most developers we also use the Sparkle framework to do our non-App Store updates and figuring out how to…

  • New Italian Search Plug-in

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    Andrea Guglielmi, Italian DVDpedia user, created a plug-in for his favorite site DVD-store. He has spent a couple of weeks tweaking it to perfection and collaborated with DVD-store manager to develop the DVD-Store plug-in. They even went so far as to amend their search routine output to allow him to create the link back URL…

  • Wedding Bells

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    Yes, you read that right: wedding bells are sounding at Bruji these days. Conor and Nora are getting married this weekend and to celebrate, all the Pedias are 20% off from the 16th till the 23rd. Since we’ll be a little occupied with non-Bruji things in the coming days, please don’t be upset if we…

  • Unfruitful Discussions

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    We managed to talk with an Amazon representative over the phone about Pocketpedia2 and although thrilling to finally have a two-way conversation it proved to be neither enlightening nor productive. Amazon made it clear that they are not okay with Pocketpedia2, even though it censors their data. We were told that even the most common…

  • I Coulda Been a Contender

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    I just read the interesting article by Dan Moren at Macworld about the possible text input methods for the probably upcoming Apple tablet (it could after all be something completely different). I expected a mention of the haptic feedback system that Apple patented a while ago. But it was not to be heard of. In…

  • One Finger Discount (The Good Kind)

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    Daniel Jalkut has started a 20% discount website for Mac indie developers as an alternative to MacHeist. He even mentioned how some participating devs have seen their apps adopted by a variety of businesses, including non GamStop casinos, emphasizing the broad appeal of these creative tools. Build your own bundle and get 20% off any…