Templates - A Coda Plugin

Its that time again....I got bored and thought...what does Coda not have that I want.... simple template support, so.....i created a simple Plugin that allows you to add Templates based on files on your HD. :D

Give it a try...

Download Here  

Comments are welcome :D...

Some instructions... 

1) one installed, click on the Templates menu item in the plugins menu.
2) Click the add button in the lower left corner of the sheet
3) fill in the details, select a file you wish to use as a template and press add template
4) select the template you just added and click choose
5) edit away =] 

Palettes...feature request?

Hello all, as rare as I do post....I feel this post will be worth some while.

A thing to note..., yes Palettes is in development! Woop!

This is the time whilst its in early stages of build that you may comment on this post and request features that Palettes will have. For all you people that havnt figured out from the name and the icon what Palettes does....it stores color/colour palettes for clients and keeps the hex, xmyk, pantone etc only a click away to ease you workflow.

Anyway, I was going to spend the evening cracking on with it....but yesterday I decided to see how much power this mac pro has so I installed XP via bootcamp and fired up Crysis....game runs smooth as a babies bottom with everything as high as I could get it ( included modifying the config files to allows the DX10 things to be active to!! ).

But yes, any feature requests...now is the time people before its to late.

Happy feature thinking!

I am alive...

Hello all, I thought id post a quick message saying that, yes I am alive ... sort off and what is going on with Palettes. My iMac recently went dodgy and decided not to read from the USB ports as soon as OSX kicked in, so no keyboard and mouse. So I did a time machine backup from using the install disc and thought yer! Fixed!! Well, it cured that problem, but at the same time caused corrupt data on my time machine backup ... namely ... Palettes app = gone. But! not to worry, my iMac now sits in the naughty corner and has just been replaced my a nice new Mac Pro and a 30" Cinema display. So Palettes is going to be redone :D.

WebSnap - Coda Plugin

**UPDATE** WebSnap has been updated, now supports saving as JPEG, TIFF and PNG, also has support for JPEG quality settings. I have also adjusted the progress bar so you actually get a real time progress of the site loading :)

Hi all, if your a mac user and use the valuable piece of software called Coda....then this little plugin I wrote might be of some use.

Its called WebSnap and allows you to take a picture of any website from within Coda and save the image to file etc. (a bit like Paparazzi app).

Anyway, if your interested in taking a look, you may download it from the link below.

Download WebSnap 

Comments are always appreciated :) 

Something ive been working on...

Heres a video of a little something ive been working on ( ignoring the growl notifications of a guy pleading for help with javascript... )

Click to watch 

So thats how they do it...

I havnt posted anything in a while....but this will be short. Leopard style applications such as LittleSnapper for instance, they all have the sexy roudned corners at the bottom of the window with a nice indent line just above it, also with content inbetween them, mainly sliders or buttons.

How do they do that?

For a long time now I have just thought it was a Textured window with a few lines drawn across it to give the indent, but if you look closely, a textured window is slightly darker then what you see LittleSnapper using....

so the hunt continued..... 

I finally came across a few methods in the NSWindow class that drew my eye to them, these where


So with that inmind, I quickly put in xcode...

and lowing behold.....you end up with what those applications use, a margin to put content into, with the sexy little indent line :).

Im now a happy child... 

PictureFlow, testing out Flash Player 10's native 3D functionality

Hi all, I love AS3...like javascript...its pretty slick and simple language, anyway, here an example of my PictureFlow which has now been completely rewritten to use Flash Player 10's 3D bits and bobs. The items themselves are movieclips, which means (and ive tried :P) you can use video or anything inside it, so you could have a coverflow system full of fully interactive video or games or whatever, obviously the performance will decrease, the reflections you can specify wether they refresh, so say you add a video, you can specify for that one item that the reflection refreshes so on and so on.

*NOTE* THIS DOES REQUIRE FLASH PLAYER 10!! YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FROM ADOBE SITE :)

You can either use the keyboard to move the items or you can click and drag like on the iPhones CoverFlow :). Comments are welcome.

Example 

Rising Royalties mean the possible closure of the iTunes Music Store?

A veiled threat by Apple to close its iTunes store has emerged 18 months after it was issued and just a day before royalty rates are to be set.

The Copyright Royalty Board meets on Thursday to rule on a requested 66% increase for sales of digital music from 9 cents to 15 cents a track.

A rise would have to be paid by either Apple, the record company or consumer.

Apple opposed the rate hike and has said it is unwilling to raise its 99 cents a song price or absorb a rise.

NDA has been eliminated!

The title says it all... iPhone SDK NDA has finally been lifted, meaning....developers like myself can finally start talking to other developers and make little colonies of iPhone developer geeks to take over and rule the world with.

Also with the NDA's murder I myself can post tutorials and other cocoa-touch related tutorials on this site. Im assuming it also means the ability to have open source apps? Although WordPress is open source...and somehow did not attract attention from Apple for breaking the NDA agreement. Also I wonder if this means we are allowed to use the privatized classes that Apple wont let us get are hands on, for example....adding text fields to UIAlertView....how do Apple do it?, well they have actually got the functions in the headers to do it....they just dont give us access, although if you know what to type...they do work ;).


You'll get compile warnings but thats about it, it will work fine, what I ended up doing was subclassing alert view...without the .m file and just add the extra functions to the header file.

Anyway, no NDA....christmas really has come early this year!  

Appstore antics

At GeekyGoodness headquarters we are constantly thinking of new ideas for applications and funky geekyness, but sadly our brains are not working at the moment.

Because of this we want to see what you want us to make, we know there are hundreds of iPhone apps available on the Appstore but there must be something missing.

If you think you know what it is or just want to see our next App do something you want then drop us a comment and it might just happen. 

What's this? Something has changed...

Bonjour all, its true, I got bored of the other design to the extent of hating it. Probably why I hardly ever posted on it because you look at it and vomit.

This is now using my new build of my custom cms, does alot of neat things (not that you can see them as you dont have access). Should be alot faster aswell as ive completely rewritten the backend cms so its more efficient.

I hope you all like the new design, comments are welcome as always.