http://michelf.com/weblog/ 2010-03-07T12:55:09Z Thoughts about computers, language, and society by a learned programmer who likes Macs and typography. Copyright © 2010 Michel Fortin Michel Fortin michel.fortin@michelf.com tag:www.michelf.com,2010-03-07:/weblog/2010/downloading-apps-safari

About two years ago, I wrote a piece about what should the application download experience look like on Mac OS X. In it, I suggested that the best experience was to simply create a compressed archive that Safari would decompress automatically after download. Unfortunately, Safari 4 has a problem that breaks the optimality I used to provide.

2010-03-07T12:55:09Z 2010-03-07T12:55:09Z tag:www.michelf.com,2010-03-02:/weblog/2010/magic-launch-1.1.1/

Yet another Magic Launch update. This update fixes a problem where rule ordering wasn’t saved correctly. It also adds a check to detect file-specific associations for files dropped in the file type list, and offers to remove the association to make them work as expected.

2010-03-02T21:28:56Z 2010-03-02T21:31:35Z tag:www.michelf.com,2010-02-22:/weblog/2010/application-file-label/

I’m releasing today version 1.1 of Magic Launch with the added capability of choosing the application to open a file with based on that file’s color label. If you’re using file labels as a classification system, you’ll now be able to open files of the same type with different applications depending on that categorization, without having to specify the application manually (with the “Open with” menu item). Let’s see how useful this is.

2010-02-23T01:04:06Z 2010-02-23T01:05:06Z tag:www.michelf.com,2010-02-11:/weblog/2010/indie-developer-spotlig

A lot of Indie Mac developer are doing a promotion during Macworld. For the two remaining days of Macworld Expo, you can get many Mac applications at a 20% discount on the Indie Developer Spotlight list. On that list you’ll find my own product, Magic Launch, but also a lot of great Mac applications (and some for iPhone).

2010-02-12T03:49:59Z 2010-02-12T03:49:59Z tag:www.michelf.com,2010-01-27:/weblog/2010/ipad-apple-world-device

So that’s it. The iPad is a small tablet you can carry with you. It has great applications, a great web browser, and the hardware is pretty nice… well I haven’t seen one myself but it looks great. All that at an unbelievably low price. What’s the catch?

2010-01-27T21:17:56Z 2010-01-30T16:35:50Z