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Last Friday Apple overhauled the Mac Developer program for the first time in years. Gone is the tiered system, replaced with a single $99 price. But also gone is the hardware discount. Thought some developers point out that with a $99 program replacing a $500 one, the savings are close to the hardware discount anyway.
Unlike the iPhone Developer Program, the Mac Developer Program isn’t required to develop Mac software. Apple does not control the distribution of Mac software like it does for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. So membership in the Mac Developer Program is voluntary, with support being the primary benefit.
Game developer Valve announced that it is bringing the bulk of its game library to the Mac in April. Games include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half Life game series. In addition, new games were being developed for simultaneous deployment on PCs and Macs. This follows EA’s lead from a few years back when it started deploying games on the Mac at the same time as for Windows.
Apple removed more apps from the App Store this week, this time targeting Wi-Fi “stumblers” — apps that look for and display the names of nearby Wi-Fi signals. The reason for the purge this time is simply that many of these apps use part of the iPhone OS that is restricted by the iPhone Developer agreement. These are referred to as “private APIs” and can cause the app to stop working correctly when that part of the iPhone’s OS is updated, which is why Apple prohibits their use. Some Wi-Fi finder apps that did not use this functionality remain in the App Store.
Now that I am building iPhone apps, I find the need to track downloads and sales. As most iPhone developers know, Apple’s developer site presents data in an almost unreadable format. So a lot of third-party developers have stepped in to provide applications that will present the data in a useful way. I use AppViz which gets download and sales data, reviews from all countries, and even checks rankings. It has become an invaluable part of my business day.
A new iPhone game from CleverMedia (parent company of MacMost) is Moon Lander. This is like the classic arcade game. You try to land a ship on a moon, past rocky terrain and outcroppings, before you run out of fuel. The main game has 25 levels, and there are two bonus challenges as well.
Do you use Apple Mail as an RSS reader? If not, then you might want to take away the RSS feeds from Mail, as it takes up time and bandwidth keeping those up-to-date. You can do this by right clicking or control+clicking the RSS feeds in the left sidebar and deleting them. You can also go to Mail preferences and look for the RSS tab. Set the “Check for updates” to “manually.”
Another week, another Apple news story controversy. Apple audited its manufacturing suppliers and made the report public this week. You can read it here. It is important to note that Apple did this on its own, and other companies that use the same or similar suppliers don’t even do this kind of audit.
They found two main problems: underage workers, and employees working more than 60 hours per week or 6 days per week. The underage worker problem was just 11 workers that were 15 instead of 16 when hired, although they were now either of age or no longer employed.
But some press covered the story like Apple was trying to hide something instead of brining it to light themselves. Other news sources then jumped to Apple’s defense, praising the company for going beyond simple compliance with the law.
Next week is the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and it looks like developer Valve will be announcing a major push into the Mac gaming work. They produce games like Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead.
Rumors this week center around Apple establishing a cloud storage service for music and video. The idea would be that people could buy music and video from iTunes, and not have to store them on their local hard drives. So you could purchase movie after movie from Apple and just access the files over the Internet instead of locally.
I think when most people look at the Solio H1000 Universal Hybrid Charger they don’t realize it is really an external battery for the iPhone and iPod. It isn’t just a solar panel. So if you are going to carry around an external battery, you might as well make it this one. It costs about the same, and it charges itself given enough time. I just keep it in the window, and then when I travel I grab it. I can get a full charge while on the airplane. By the time I am taking my return flight, it is usually fully charged from the hotel window and ready again.
You know how you can customize the Finder toolbar? You can do the same with the toolbar in Preview. Choose View, Customize Toolbar. You can add all sorts of interesting toolbar buttons and fields: an editable page number, an Inspector button, a Zoom to Fit button, Print button, Rotate button, and so on. You just drag and drop elements into your Preview toolbar to add them. Try it out.
Whether you are in hollywood, community theater, a school play or make presentations, you can use Rehearsal to learn your lines. It is quite an interesting idea. You take script pages and load them on to your iPhone. You can then rehearse your lines, even with recordings of the other actors in place.
