OS X Apps

Notes from the hunt:

11/10 It seems that both BlackholeMedia and ScotlandSoftware have disappeared.

10/15 Been too long since I've given this section some attention. I added an easy reply link on the submission queue, for easy feedback to my comments. I'm going thru them in reverse chronological order and hope to get to the bulk of them in the next few days.

8/26 Running my URL clean-up scripts, which I haven't done in a while. Trying to get things in place for the fall (the season).

8/1 I put in some speed optimizations on the code that runs the application list. The various bots have also gotten trapped in the lists and I now help them out, which lowers strain on the server.

7/31 What a month! Looks like I have some catching-up to do on the app list. This list ain't dead, it just had a nice rest for a bit. On with the show!

7/11
I'm going to toot my own horn for a moment here. I've been working with Andrew Stone and Ollie Wagner writing apps for the iPhone under the name Big Stone Phone. The first three apps we've released are:

Twittelator (free!) – Our custom Twitter client. The design is elegant and contains several unique features.
iGraffiti ($5) – A versitile drawing program that also lets you overlay drawings on camera snapshots. Includes a very nice color picker, several different ways to create brushes, and can do zooms for detailed work.

Talking Pics ($10) – An audio recorder w/ pictures and notes bundled into convenient projects. Many uses. Examples listed on our product page.

7/1 There is a new class of application starting to show up more recently, that of web-type applications which are available for download to be run "offline" on the desktop. (Nod to the submitter who has pointing out several to me.) They are often composed from a combination of a scripting language and JavaScript, and so make use of both the OS and browsers. This is all fine, and an interesting movement correlating to the rise of high-quality web apps. But the question for this listing is: should they be listed here? (discuss)

In other news, I ended up adding a new application type, "Air," which indicates that these are programs that run atop of Adobe's new app platform. The Mac implementation of Air is itself a Cocoa environment, but I'll have to see if these kinds of apps really do constitute a new kind of app worth tracking or not. It'll be interesting to see how much traction this platform grabs.

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