February 2012
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Direct link to redeem a Mac App Store promo code
I saw a blog post by tap tap tap a while back with a way to create user friendly links for redeeming iOS app promo codes. This is so much easier for the user than sending them a code and giving them precise instructions on the way to redeem it, especially if they’ve never done it before. You can send a link and they can get a free version of your app with one-click.
I hadn’t come...
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Rethinking the calendar
Jason Fried, giving a preview of the all-new calendar in Basecamp Next:
There is one thing in particular I love about this calendar. Instead of the standard month-at-a-time view, it shows the next 6 weeks. You can see the current week and 5 weeks into the future. It’s one of those things that is so incredibly obvious once you see it. Why doesn’t every calendar do this?
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Selling open source apps
I’ve been thinking for a while that the app store – both Mac and iOS – might be the perfect way to make money creating open source apps. For the average user, they don’t care about the code. They don’t know what open source is, and couldn’t care if it’s written in Cocoa or Flash or Java1. They buy an app that solves a problem, and that’s it. Other developers can...
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Chrome and the blank new tab button
I noticed yesterday that Chrome no longer displays a “+” inside of the new tab button.
Above: the new tab button for the previous versions of Chrome on the left and the new tab button on the right.
At first, I thought it was a bug. I quit and restarted Chrome with the same results. I tweeted about it and quickly got a few confirmations that it’s not an issue just on my...
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Why I'm excited for Clear
Everyone has probably already watched the video and read about the yet to be released to do app Clear. There has been a lot of buzz for the app because of the innovative and well-considered interaction design. If you haven’t seen it already, I’ve embedded it below:
Now, I’m really interested in this app as a designer and developer of software, and I’ll write more about...