MacIndie

Cocos2d, as we’ve mentioned here before is a game development framework for iPhoneOS (it works across iPhones, iPod Touches as well as the Magical new iPad); it’s written in Objective-C and supports all the things you would need to make a robust game development system from layers, and sprites to physics engines and sound systems. [...]

It’s almost that time… and between now and the closing beer bash at the Yerba Buena Gardens (6:30 PM on June 10th), there’s a lot of partying.. er, I mean networking to be done.
Here’s the list of events (both parties and networking events) we know of so far:
I f you know of  more events, please [...]

If you had to describe the basic functions you would expect all MacOSX apps to provide, which would they be?     I’m not referring to the most basic, capabilities such as  the fact all apps should support (where appropriate) cut/copy/paste/unlimited-undo and the ability to work with multiple documents .. Think about something a little [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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.