MacIndie

URL: http://github.com/rentzsch/jrfeedbackprovider
Code Quality: Production
Description:
Written (primarily) by Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch, one of the Indie Dev World’s “A-List” developers and organizer of the C-4 Mac Developers Conference, JRFeedbackProvider is an Open Source (MIT License) Objective-C framework that allows you to provide a bug-reporting, feedback, and support-request panel for your application. Data collected from this feedback form is delivered [...]

URL: http://github.com/lukhnos/objectiveflickr
Code Quality: Production (used in several shipping apps)
Description:
ObjectiveFlickr is a set of Objective-C libraries by Lukhnos D. Liu that impement the Flickr APIs and allow you to access flickr public resources using an API key obtained from the Flickr.com web site.
ObjectiveFlicker can be used for both iPhone and MacOSX applications; it’s an asynchronous API so [...]

We’re going to break from what has been our (so far) regular format of indie business and code articles to point out an interesting occurrence a couple of nights ago that revolves around two tweets that caught my attention, one by Jon Gruber of DaringFireball, the other by Scott Stevenson of Theococao who are two [...]

URL: http://www.mcubedsw.com/dev
Code Quality: Production
Description:
M3InstallController is a small Objective-C utility class by Martin Pilkington (owner of MCubed Software) that, like PotionFactory’s LetsMove allows your app to see if it is running form the users /Application directory and offers to move itself there if not.    Both M3InstallController and LetsMove accomplish the same goal but in slightly [...]

URL: http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/code/knappguide/
Code Quality: Work in Progress (working; under active development, no tools for content creation yet)
Description:
Way back in the 90s, when Apple introduced MacOS System 7, they brought out a very unique help system that instead of just showing you a page of text-based instructions actually showed you show to use applications by example: circling [...]

URL: http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchJSON
Code Quality: Production (used in many, many production apps)
Description:
Jonathon Wights’s TouchJSON is an MIT Licensed Cocoa library that allows MacOSX and iPhone applications to create and/or parse JSON (JavasSript Object Notation) format data.  JSON is a very lightweight data interchange format is the common choice for sending data back to clients from most RESTful [...]

“It’s that Wonderful Time of the Year”  – and no, I’m not just referring to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus and/or New Years — it’s the time of year when all Apple fans and pundits look toward Cupertino to opine, speculate, predict, and fantasize about what will be announced in late January.  This is when Apple, [...]

URL: http://github.com/kballard/feedparser
Code Quality: Work in Progress (working, well documented/commented and in use by shipping apps; may need to be customized depending upon your specific needs)
Description:
FeedParser, by Kevin Ballard,  is an NSXMLParser-based RSS and Atom feed parser for MacOSX and iPhoneOS.  It parses a number of commonly used RSS elements (title, link, links, content, pubDate, creator, author and enclosures – it can be pretty easily extended [...]

URL: http://github.com/mattball/MBCoverFlowView
Code Quality: Demo/Proof of Concept (will need customization in your apps)
Description:
MBCoverFlow view is an Open Source (MIT Licensed) implementation of Apple’s cover-flow which is seen in iTunes and, under 10.5+,  as one of the views possible when browsing files in Finder windows.

URL:  http://www.panic.com/blog/2009/12/developer-color-picker-1-2/
Code Quality: N/A
Description:
Developer Color Picker is a nifty little utility that solves a very succinct problem: getting the color values for a color on the screen that you can use in your code.  This little free utility from Panic (makers of Transmit and Coda) gets installed in your ~/Library/ColorPickers directory and shows up at [...]