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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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak

PXSourceList GC-enabled

As you may know, right now we are very busy in development of FooTweet, our upcoming Twitter client for Mac. It will come with two different UI’s, a compact and extended one, for which we are going to use Alex Rozanski’s awesome PXSourceList control. Unfortunately PXSourceList is not Garbage Collector compatible, until now. I revised the code to make it fully GC-compliant, but it will still work in non GC-enviroments. This is achieved with preprocessor directives that will invoke the appropiate code, depending whether Garbage Collector is enabled or not. Bon Appetit, have fun with it!

PXSourceList GC-enabled

Ascension 1.0.1 beta 2 is released

I managed to do things even better and released Ascension 1.0.1 beta 2 today. You won’t recognize it at a first glance, but a lot has changed under the hood, thanks to your reports and overwhelming feedback. I’m quite sure the goal of creating the best ASCII art / NFO viewer (and editor) for Mac OS X is already reached. Unfortunately I did neither find time yet to create a project page nor to publish a gallery, but a recent screenshot can be found here. A project page will be available soon.

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Ascension 1.0.0 beta1 is out!

My ASCII Art viewer and editor for Mac has finally been released. For now Ascension supports NFO, DIZ and TXT files. Of course it can handle Unicode documents. Follow the link to browse the repository and get the beta. I will update my project site here as soon as possible. Let me know if anything is not working as expected.

File attributes with Cocoa

In this basic Cocoa example I’m explaining how to access file attributes with NSFileManager and also a simple way of converting a NSURL to a path. Feel free to share and to use this for your own projects.

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