Mac programming software news, reviews and tips, including Xcode and AppleScript

Change color of BBEdit and TextWrangler 'invisibles' characters

Rob Griffiths — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:35:00 -0700

Learn how to change the color of the special characters that BBEdit and TextWrangler use to display invisible characters, such as tabs and line breaks.

Mac News Briefs: Navicat Premium manages different database servers

Macworld Staff — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:45:00 -0700

The latest version of PremiumSoft's database administration tools lets users manage different kinds of database servers from one application. Also, BBEdit and Invoices underwent updates, while iPresentee released new Keynote themes.

Mac News Briefs: iFinance 3 out of beta

Macworld Staff — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:34:00 -0700

iFinance 3 has been rewritten from the ground up, according to developer Synium Software. Also, Xcode, AutoCorrectXT, and Adium all saw updates on Monday.

Microsoft Silverlight 3 challenges Adobe AIR

Martin Heller — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:00 -0700

Silverlight 3 is catching up to the capabilities of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Microsoft's multimedia development technology once lagged behind.

Mac News Briefs: WinTel update speeds up virtualization performance

Macworld Staff — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:06:00 -0700

Version 3.0 of OpenOSX's WinTel delivers virtualization features that speed up the performance of hosted operating systems on Intel Macs.

Adobe aligns software branding to shine light on Flash

Elizabeth Montalbano — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:15:00 -0700

Adobe is aligning its Web design and developer tools, including a new one developers can begin testing Monday, under its Flash brand.

Mac News Briefs: BoinxTV update adds audio, image adjustment features

Macworld Staff — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:24:00 -0700

The newest version of Boinx Software's live video production software adds a number of new features and bug fixes, including support for a high-quality chroma key filter. The developers for rooSwitch and RapidWeaver also unveiled updates Thursday.

Opinion: Is Apple barking up the wrong tree with Grand Central?

Neil McAllister — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:57:00 -0700

Vendors are scrambling to provide developer tools to support multicore CPUs, but customer demand is heading in the other direction, writes Neil McAllister of InfoWorld.

‘Team of Apple executives’ to deliver WWDC Keynote

Peter Cohen — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:00:00 -0700

A team of Apple executives led by Phil Schiller will deliver this year's keynote address at the upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple revealed on Wednesday.

Your desert island app

Peter Cohen — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:20:00 -0700

What if you were trapped on a desert island -- one with electricity and Wi-Fi -- and could have only one third-party application for your Mac? Which one would it be?

Scratch Day 2009 - computer programming for kids

Phil Shapiro — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:24:00 -0700

MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.

BBEdit adds LassoScript support, Sleep command

Peter Cohen — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:00 -0700

BBEdit 9.2 features support for LassoScript, a new Sleep command that retains the application's state and other major changes.

REAL Server 2009 Release 1 sports new scalable architecture

Peter Cohen — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:44:00 -0700

REAL Server 2009 Release 1 sports some dramatic improvements, including a new scalable architecture, performance enhancements and 60 new operations.

Unity game development engine boosts performance

Peter Cohen — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:25:00 -0700

Unity, the game development engine, has been updated for the iPhone with performance improvements and optimizations.