Archive for February, 2007

Desktopple Pro Widget

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Sometimes it’s nice to have multiple ways to control an application. With Desktopple Pro, you can control it with the menu bar item or with the System Preferences. But sometimes, neither of those methods are convenient.
So today, I’m releasing the Desktopple Pro Widget. A quick trip to the Dashboard lets you launch and quit Desktopple [...]

Desktopple Pro 1.2

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Desktopple Pro 1.2 is now ready for your dowloading pleasure!
Version 1.2 adds an Exclusion List to the Window Cleaning feature, so you can choose apps which don’t have their windows automatically hidden. I’ve also added some quick-access items to the menu bar, so you don’t have to make a trip to the Preferences just to [...]

The Case of the Mysterious “Can’t cache image” Error

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I’ve been working a bit on Desktopple Pro. It doesn’t matter how thorough or how long the test, Beta Tests can’t catch everything. So whenever there’s a release, you’re always going to have a lingering bug or two. And today, I’ve been squashing those bugs.
I had just done a build, tried to load the Desktopple [...]

Learning Cocoa

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

For those aspiring developers out there, Scott Stevenson has posted Part II of his introduction to Cocoa series (if you missed, Part I is here).
Scott does a fantastic job of presenting complex concepts in easy-to-understand ways, and if you are interested in getting started in Mac/Cocoa programming, I recommend his tutorials without hesitation. In fact, [...]

Desktopple Pro 1.1!

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Yes, it’s finally here!
Desktopple Pro 1.1 has been released and it brings a lot to the table. In fact, so much has changed that I seriously considered calling it Desktopple Pro 2.0.
One of the feature requests that I kept getting over and over was that Desktopple Pro should be a Preference Pane instead of a [...]