It’s been a struggle. It’s been a trial. But Innecto has now been ported to macOS. If you’ve got a Mac (any kind, as long as it’s running macOS 10.10 or newer) then you can enjoy Innecto on your desktop or laptop computer as well as on your tablet or phone. Continue reading “Innecto now ported to macOS”
45RPM Software News
There’s lots of news for 45RPM Software this month. New releases, and a Facebook business page set up for us by our Facebook communications director, Sue deNym (I know, I know!) Check out the Facebook page (link at the bottom of the page), and like and follow us for all the latest news on 45RPM Software’s newest and greatest releases.
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FizzBuzz
Did you ever play FizzBuzz? If you didn’t, it’s a drinking game. That’s how I learned it, anyway.
It’s a counting game, and the rules are simple enough. Everyone sits in a circle and takes it in turn to say the next number, starting from one and ending at 100. The catch is that if the number is divisible by three the player says Fizz instead of the number, and if the number is divisible by five the player says Buzz. If the number is divisible by three and five the player says FizzBuzz. The penalty for miscounting, mis-fizzing or mis-buzzing is, predictably, a drink. Easy? Surprisingly not, and really rather hard after a skinful.
The Xcode 4 Cookbook
The Xcode 4 Cookbook (by Stephen F. Daniel) is the most misleadingly named titled that I’ve read in a while. If you’re after an Xcode 4 Cookbook and you’re planning a little Mac OS X development then, make no mistake, you’re in the wrong place. If you’re after an iOS Cookbook (that name is already taken hence, I suppose, this title) then read on – this book might be right up your street.
MailRaider press release
Switching. Such a little word, and it makes it sound so easy. All you have to do is buy a Mac, copy your files over, and your done. Easy as that, you have a new computer. Except that this is very much a best-case scenario and things are never that simple in ‘real life’.
Take e-mail for example. On your old PC you diligently saved the email that you cared about by dragging it to your desktop. Easy. And when you wanted to open it, you just double clicked on the email icon and there it was.
So you switched to a Mac, copying all those e-mail files, and now you want to read one. No problem. You open the folder and… wait a minute… here is the first clue that something might be amiss because all the email icons have gone, replaced by generic document icons. Never mind, it’s a minor thing. You double click and… Nothing. You can’t read the email. Damn.
Is all lost? Have you lost those emails? Have you lost the attachments? No. Not a bit of it. Just visit the App Store and search for ‘MailRaider’ (or ‘Microsoft Outlook msg’, if you want to check out the competition too.) Download MailRaider and try double clicking on that Outlook file again. Hey Presto. Problem solved, and for the unbeatable price of Absolutely Free. You’re all quite welcome.
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Change to 45RPM Software, Part 2
I have a couple of problems. I’m short on cash – and, in these recession hit times, aren’t we all. I’m also short on time – which is a nuisance for everyone who uses my software because it means that I can’t provide you with the support that you deserve. I have few ideas which might help me solve these problems – and you can explore them from the labs page. Continue reading “Change to 45RPM Software, Part 2”
Spite on the App Store, Part 2
One of the major problems with the Apple App Store is that it loads the dice against high quality free software. Take the example of two competing applications on the App Store, one free and one paid for. The developer of the paid app can download, at no cost, the free app and then bad mouth it to the world. The developer of the free app cannot respond (because there is no global mechanism for response in the App Store), at least not without paying good money to the developer who slandered him in the first place.
Spite on the AppStore
As you will all have seen (and, I hope, enjoyed), I develop handy little apps for the Mac in my spare time. I only develop an app if no-one else has developed a similar program – I always like to be first in the Market.
MailRaider kind of broke this rule because, when I first developed it (in 2008), there was already an application which purported to open Microsoft Outlook msg files – it just didn’t work. At all. So MailRaider was born. MailRaider does work, and very effectively, and users who encounter an edge case file (not very often these days) have been very good about giving me the details so that the next version of MailRaider performs flawlessly. Continue reading “Spite on the AppStore”
Snippet of Code # 4 – Embedding binary in a shell script
Sometimes it would be nice to embed a binary in a shell script, if only to provide a neat deployment for a command line tool. There’s a right way to do this, so that the shell script remains editable even after the binary has been attached to it, and a wrong way – where the shell script is no longer editable at the end. I’ll show you the right way here, and you can work out the wrong way yourself.
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Snippet of Code #3 – Dumping Bits
Sometimes it’s useful to save a little memory by storing data as bits rather than bytes. After all, if you’re storing a boolean then using a whole byte is rather wasteful. In any event, sometime you might want to inspect individual bits when working on your program. If you’ve ever needed to do this then this code will help. Continue reading “Snippet of Code #3 – Dumping Bits”