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Savant home automation firm invites Mac developers

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0700

Savant, a maker of home automation gear that is Mac-based, is inviting developers to its new program.

Independent Games Festival opens 2009 submissions

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:43:00 -0700

Submissions are now open for the 2009 Independent Game Festival awards, which will be announced at next March's Game Developers Conference.

Geek Factor: 8 great Automator downloads

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:56:00 -0700

You don't have to stick with the Automator actions that came with OS X. Ben Waldie lists his favorite third-party Automator downloads.

AppleScript and chat privacy

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:00 -0700

Jason Snell tries to get a little privacy on his instant messaging system when he's at home.

AppleScript versus Alameda County

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:19:00 -0700

Jason Snell battles a wonky Java applet to get a readable version of a court case.

Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:49:00 -0700

Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company’s Silverlight browser plug-in technology.

Unity — Mac game engine now authorized for Wii

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:21:00 -0700

Unity, the game engine used to create 3D games for Mac and Windows, is now authorized by Nintendo for Wii development.

Curl adds runtime support for Mac environments

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:14:00 -0700

Rich Internet application vendor Curl has introduced a runtime for Macintosh environments.

Typinator adds HTML snippets set

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:12:00 -0700

Typinator's developer has released an HTML snippets set to help ease HTML editing.

Basic lesson: Microsoft listens to its users

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Visual Basic for Applications is headed back to Office for the Mac in a future release. So what does that mean for the VBA-using Office user of today?

REALbasic 2008 Release 2 sports 200 improvements

Tue, 06 May 2008 05:26:00 -0700

REALbasic 2008 Release 2 adds 200 fixes and improvements including a new class called Pairs and enhancements to introspection, first introduced in February's release.

Apple adds support for Java SE 6 to Leopard

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700

The 57MB Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 release adds support for Java SE 6, which had been missing from Leopard since its release last fall.

Visual Ajax Studio comes to the Mac

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:24:00 -0700

WaveMaker has released a beta version of Visual Ajax Studio for the Mac.

Geek Factor: Automating Word with AppleScript

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:19:00 -0700

Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support VBA. The good news is that, with a little tinkering, almost anything you could do with a VBA macro in previous versions of Word, you can now do with AppleScript in Word 2008.