MacIndie

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 [...]

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 [...]

URL: http://code.google.com/p/plcrashreporter/
Code Quality: Production (used in many OSX and iPhone apps)
Description:
PLCrashReporter is an Objective-C framework (on MacOSX) and a static library (on iPhoneOS) that allows you to capture application crash dumps and send them back to yourself for analysis. PLCrashReporter is implemented as an in-process signal handler that can handle both fatal errors (segmentation faults, [...]

URL:  http://vafer.org/projects/feedbackreporter/
Code Quality: Production
Description:
FeedbackReporter is a basic feedback panel that you can use to allow your  users to send you feedback, bug reports, or even basic crash reports from inside your application which can then be captured on a back-end server.
FeedbackReporter is delivered as a Cocoa framework and a set of example php scripts that [...]