Apple has approved FlexTime for the Mac App Store, where it is now available for purchase. As with my other App Store offerings, Black Ink and MarsEdit, customers are invited to purchase through Apple’s store or through my own. All of my apps are functionally identical, except for in the areas of license management and software […]

One of the challenges existing Mac developers face with the Mac App Store (MAS) is whatever copy protection you have been using up until now has to be thrown out in favor of a protection scheme based on Apple’s App Store “receipts,” a tiny cryptographically signed file they place inside purchased applications that let your […]

I can’t help myself. It’s probably worth noting that nobody knows for sure what these options do, and you might do serious damage to your Mac or your App Store account by playing with them. But … just a look can’t hurt … can it? Quit App Store.app Open Terminal defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool […]

It’s only been one day since the launch of the Mac App Store, and the Mac developer and user communities are buzzing with consequences, both good and bad, of the store and how it operates. One particularly vexing issue is the question of whether an app that is already on your Mac is “installed” or […]