Tommystorm

Steve Job’s press conference today about the iPhone Software Development Kit was to me better than I had hoped in many ways.

• Going after the Enterprise. Apple is making iPhone interoperate with Microsoft Exchange server. A huge factor in making the iPhone viable for business users.
• An awesome desktop simulator, for developing, testing, debugging iPhone apps, including an excellent performance metric tool.
• Availability of the Cocoa API.
• Excellent support for games, and alliances with Games publishers (Is iPhone going after the NDS and PSP?)
• Apple will be providing marketing, distribution and deployment services for a 30% cut for all applications, and for free, for Freeware applications, through their AppStore.

Check out Apple’s iPhone Dev Center

Freeverse software is offering a 20% discount on all of their products today only, in celebration of leap-day. To get the discount, use the coupon code leapyear when you check out.

The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

The target developer audience is those who use AJAX, Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash

This appears to be some sort of API that allows integration with IDE’s (like Dreamweaver, I guess), WebKit, ECMAScript, and SQL. A test-drive of it will show its true usefulness. Stay tuned.

Adobe describes it here.

MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is covered, and appropriate data is returned as simple native Cocoa objects (NSArrays, NSDictionarys, NSStrings, NSDates and so on), for very easy integration into your own application. MGTwitterEngine is designed for Leopard, but should be just fine on Tiger too.

Direct download link (MacOS GUI version): Download Handbrake 0.9.2

HandBrake’s Website: here for more flavors and platforms of this release.

Apple, who doesn’t normally do demo versions, is giving up a 30-day version of the new Aperture, Apple’s pro-photographer-oriented version of iPhoto.

The last time i tried Aperture, it took so long to do anything on my Dual G5, that i stopped using it in frustration. Now that i have a new Intel desktop machine it may be alot different.

Read the Cool OSX Apps article about it here.

Download the free trial from Apple here.

Here’s how to enjoy content from YouTube, GoogleVideo, MySpace, etc. from the comfort of your AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, or iTunes. Oh and did i mention it’s all freeware?

1. Install Perian
2. Install TubeTV
3. Visit your favorite web video source from within TubeTV
4. Download the video’s you like directly into iTunes.

ZigZig Software - ZigVersion

Nice package of updates for MacOS 10.5.

You need to run Software Update now.

Here’s Apple’s Release Notes

Handy little software Application to suck your TiVo content into iTunes.