Category Archives: Development

Typing and Coding Like A Monkey!

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Adam Tow

Over the past few days, I’ve felt like a monkey in front of my computer as I’ve hacked out code for the Cocoa version of MsgFiler. It’s not going to take me until infinity to get out the update — … Continue reading →

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Accolades for AllThingsD.com

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Adam Tow

Me, I’d say this is hands down the best implementation of open source publishing technology I have ever seen, one that should serve as a wake up for any online publisher wondering if they should invest $1,000,000 in web publishing … Continue reading →

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All Things Digital Launches

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Adam Tow

We launched the new All Things Digital today! This will be the new home for The Wall Street Journal’s technology columnist, Walt Mossberg and his partner in journalistic crime, Kara Swisher. Also joining them with witty daily videos and posts … Continue reading →

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Annoture 1.0.2 Released

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Adam Tow

Happy New Year everyone! Annoture 1.0.2 has been released. This is a recommended update for all Annoture users. It has numerous bug fixes in the file comparison routines over the previous version of Annoture. In addition, the application will now … Continue reading →

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WP-SmugMug

Posted on December 17, 2006 by Adam Tow

I’m putting the finishing touches on WP-SmugMug, a plugin for WordPress that integrates — you guessed it — SmugMug RSS feeds into your WordPress Posts and Pages. Activate the plugin, specify the RSS feed url for your SmugMug album, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Journal, Photography | 48 Comments

Cocoa/Obj-C Unicode Regular Expressions

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Adam Tow

MsgFiler is primarily an AppleScript Studio application. To perform the search on mailboxes, MsgFiler calls several home-grown PHP scripts. These scripts, however, don’t handle Unicode text all that well. As a result, when users search for mailboxes with accented characters, … Continue reading →

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Theory on Aperture Slowdown

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Adam Tow

Under the hood, Aperture stores information on an image in two places. The first is in a SQLite3 database, and the second is in an assortment of plist files. One would venture that this approach is used for data redundancy … Continue reading →

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Unable to open database error?

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Adam Tow

An Annoture user can’t run the application because the Aperture SQLite3 database can not be opened. He’s getting the error from the program and from the command line when manually trying to access the database. Unable to open database file … Continue reading →

Posted in Aperture, Development, Journal, Timeature | 4 Comments

AppleScript System Events Slowness

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Adam Tow

In Timeature, I have the app tell Aperture to switch to the Library via AppleScript. What should be a very fast operation turns out to be glacially slow. Any AppleScript wizards care to explain why this is the case? Here’s … Continue reading →

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Localization Help Needed

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Adam Tow

In the course of the next week, I expect to have three software applications for Mac OS X available: Annoture, Timeature, and a yet-to-be released enhancement for Apple Mail. I’ve gotten help localizing my apps into French and German. What … Continue reading →

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