Announcing Syntoxic

A syntax highlighting text editor for Mac OS X. Beautiful. Contemporary. All you ever needed. Product availability? When it’s done. 

Ascension roadmap

We know Ascension is already great in displaying ASCII art on the Mac. Let’s talk about some of the key features I’m planning for upcoming Ascension releases. 

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Yozora color theme for Xcode4 Yozora is a custom .dvtcolortheme I created for Xcode4. Yozora is the Japanese word for night sky. This theme is based upon the popular Monokai theme for Textmate. Nearly all colors have been changed for Yozora, some just slightly and some more. You need Xcode4 GM (or any newer version) to use my theme. Please drop a note if you like it. Download Yozora

Yozora color theme for Xcode4

Yozora is a custom .dvtcolortheme I created for Xcode4. Yozora is the Japanese word for night sky. This theme is based upon the popular Monokai theme for Textmate. Nearly all colors have been changed for Yozora, some just slightly and some more. You need Xcode4 GM (or any newer version) to use my theme. Please drop a note if you like it.

Download Yozora

Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. That’s what it’s all about. It’s based on DOSBox, comes with a gorgeous interface, countless features and a Delicious Library like shelf for your classic goodies. I know the year has just started, but I’m a dedicated retro geek who loves to take the way back to the age of pixels, back to all those great games I know from my youth. It’s very likely that this will be my personal highlight 2011. Boxer - DOS game emulator for Mac

Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. That’s what it’s all about. It’s based on DOSBox, comes with a gorgeous interface, countless features and a Delicious Library like shelf for your classic goodies. I know the year has just started, but I’m a dedicated retro geek who loves to take the way back to the age of pixels, back to all those great games I know from my youth. It’s very likely that this will be my personal highlight 2011.

Boxer - DOS game emulator for Mac

BWToolKit 1.2.5 w/o private API

I recently forked BWToolKit to make it conform with the Mac App Store guidelines. The current version comes with an element called BWTokenField, which uses NSTokenAttachmentCell and this is private API. In other words: using BWToolKit in your App will result in MAS rejections. Since I decided to use BWToolKit in Ascension (a great enrichment), I created a variant without private API.

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AutoHyperlinks Framework R2

AutoHyperlinks is a Cocoa framework for hyperlink detection. I forked it once to bundle an optimized variant with Ascension. I recently published Release 2 of my fork, with just minor modifications under the hood. The project compiles now as Intel 32/64 binary to not conflict with the Mac App Store guidelines.

Why Apps now?

Apps are the merger of popular culture and computing. Great post by @Lessien, worth reading.

Ascension 1.0.3

Ascension 1.0.3 has been released today. You could describe this as a bugfix release, nearly no new features were added. The current build is not beta anymore, I wiped the last issues I encountered and Ascension should run smooth and stable. 

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