A rather nice e-mail arrived in my Inbox this morning from a gentleman who used my Ziplight Spotlight plugin well past its prime.
Continue readingKino-Eye.com Has a Crush on Transcriva
… it’s been going on about five years now and I think it’s getting serious. David and Transcriva, sittin’ in a tree, t-r-a-n-s-c-r-i-b-I-N-G …
Continue readingTemporis in Mac|Life
Temporis was featured in the February issue of Mac|Life magazine in print and on the web.
Continue readingTranscriva 2 Named Apple Staff Pick
Apple named Transcriva 2 (2.014) as a Staff Pick on the Productivity Tools section of their download site. It’s always nice to know the “Mothership” is watching.
Continue readingDrag Effect In Action
Last week I posted my solution to the IB3-like drag-from-library-palette effect called “JLNDragEffectManager“. Today I released an update to XTabulator (2.002) that contains this effect when dragging rows to the desktop or a folder to create new files. It’s a perfect demonstration of how “drag effects” can be used for excellent user feedback in your UI. Take a look.
Continue reading“One Finger Discount”
I decided to participate in the “One Finger Discount” promotion. All Bartas Technologies products are 20% off with the coupon code “1FINGER” through Friday, November 13, 2009.
Continue readingXTabulator 2 Released
So I finally did it. I pushed the big red Deploy button and released XTabulator 2. Okay, there is no big red Deploy button in reality, but there’s one in my head. And I pushed it. And damn, did it ever feel good.
Continue readingZiplight Superfluous, Josh Saddened
It was inevitable. The Ziplight spotlight plugin has been rendered superfluous by a built-in Archives.mdimporter that ships with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Since OS X 10.4′s release, so many asked “why on earth didn’t Apple include the ability to search inside zip files?” The answer may shock you.
Continue readingWhy Use XTabulator?
A well-known player in independent Mac developer circles recently told me he didn’t get why you’d use XTabulator over Excel for CSV, TAB, etc. I thought I’d share (the relevant parts of) my tongue-in-cheek response.
Continue reading(Re)Introducing XTabulator
You might be familiar with XTabulator. It lets you sling CSV, TAB, and other tabular data files around, massaging these inherently structureless data files to your own needs.
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