In Episode 4, Manton and I discuss the Apple Design Awards, which were handed out at WWDC. We also go off on a fun tangent about application versioning, and how the traditional “Mac way” of doing it is is frequently overlooked or ignored by new developers to the platform.

At this year’s Macworld conference, the guys at Rogue Amoeba decided to do what many trade show exhibitors do: give away a free demo CD to interested attendees. But recognizing the conventional drawback of these demos, that they are obsolete from almost the minute the disc is burned, they invested in developing a clever application […]

Paul Kim of Noodlesoft participated in the MacUpdate Bundle, putting Hazel up for sale along with a number of other applications, for a low-cost bundled price. In a recent blog post he goes into glorious detail about the motivations for participating, the pluses and minuses, and after all is said and done, whether he would […]

And then there were three (at least!). After much anticipation, Matthew Drayton has shipped Iris 1.0, his company Nolobe’s entry into the “Photoshop-like” pixel-pushing market on OS X. Congratulations, Matthew! I know how hard it is to get 1.0 out the door, even with products of considerably less complexity than a well-featured image editing application. […]