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"The App Store has received the expected “walled garden” critique, but having seen how difficult it is for small Mac software developers to get retail shelf space or to make money selling their wares on line, I like the idea. A few days ago, I downloaded a neat little utility to silence the startup sound on my new 11” MacBook Air. How much did the developer make? Zero, it’s freeware; the programmer didn’t want to spend the time and money to set up a commercial site. How much would I have paid for it from a Mac App Store? Less than $5, more than 99 cents."

— Apple’s Next Macintosh OS | Monday Note

MockSMTP.app →

MockSMTP is a native Mac application that embeds its own SMTP server. It also features an e-mail client browser, enabling instant viewing of both raw content and HTML rendering, so you can see how your mail looks when delivered.

Configuration couldn’t be simpler: just run the application and everything’s set up. You don’t even need an internet connection for it to work!

evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies →

evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they’ve removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others.

evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser. Additionally, if evercookie has found the user has removed any of the types of cookies in question, it recreates them using each mechanism available.

Lawnchair →

Sorta like a couch except smaller and outside, also, a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mobile apps that need a lightweight, simple and elegant persistence solution

VexFlow - HTML5 Music Engraving →

VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG.

Stashboard: The open source status dashboard

Dia →

Through the use of technology found on Apple’s Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems, Dia can create dynamic and robust sandbox environments for applications and for blocks of ruby code.

"Kandypot es un sistema de karma social, implementado en forma de API HTTP para su uso desde/por toda clase de sitios basados en la interacción social."

— Kandypot by @mort

Farmville clicker for Mac OS X with MacRuby →

The Basics of the Offline Application Cache →

"UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a full automated testing solution that drives the actual iPhone UI. It is modeled after the very popular RSpec for Ruby."

— uispec - Project Hosting on Google Code

facebook's three20 at master - GitHub →

Three20 is compiled as a static library, and the easiest way to add it to your project is to use Xcode’s “dependent project” facilities. Here is how

"How did we get here? We believe it’s a combination of creating a high quality product with great support in a well-defined market with significant demand. This doesn’t sound too different from classic definitions of how to develop a successful software business, and it’s not."

— Quality over Quantity: How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the App Store - The iTeleport Blog

startupquote:

We never try to sell to the dumb consumer. We always try to sell to the smart consumer.

- Matt Rutledge

"There are two reasons why we might want asynchronous testing. The first, and obvious reason is that node.js is asynchronous, and therefore our tests should be. The second reason is to make tests which target I/O run much faster, by running them concurrently."

— Vows « Asynchronous BDD for Node