Again, again and again, Apple has made me move away from my Dance/Electronic/Indie/Rock (lol) music direction and look at the artist of their new iPod Touch ad. The artist is Brendan Benson from Detroit, Michigan.
He is a solo artist and he is part of the band The Raconteurs. Also in the band (while it was still active), was the White Stripes star Jack White. Great man and great group of people around Benson. Funny to see so many stars separate … In any case, I would just like to share his songs because I find these are very relaxing and are just great to listen to in the morning or on a rainy day.
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March 8, 2008 in
iMap.
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Finally we have updated iMap to version 2.3! Here is a list of what is new:
- Meta-Tags issue fixed
- Snippets window added
- A preference window added with several options:
» Choose to create your URL with or without your site folder if you publish to a folder
» Choose how often you update your sitemap
» Create Robots.txt files for or against Google
- Sparkle updating service
As always, updates will be sent out via email.
Update: A little bug-fix for the meta-tags end missing is now corrected as well. Thanks Ann for pointing that out! Thus, iMap 2.4 is already out!
As I have been working for the Developer Tools from Apple for quite a while now, I have really gotten into finding out about all sorts of nice things that others have created for the developer community. One of them is the Sparkle Framework. This framework allows you to automatically update your application via appcasts and deliver them right to your customers; just like Apple’s Software Update application.
So integrating and using this framework is just a charm. I really suggest that you use it! Although the framework works totally fine it really lacks a good documentation for those who are new to this whole developing community (or are coding in a different language other than Cocoa). So I thought I’d make a tutorial that should make life easier. I fiddled ages with the original documentation until I got it to work – which wasn’t that exciting.
BTW – The Foolworkshop (by K. Lawson) has also done a tutorial which includes larger images. Take a look at that as well.
Continue reading ‘Adding The Sparkle Framework’
Google? Hello? After having typed in the Google search field in Safari for the past hours now, with nothing showing up, I am beginning to worry that Google is doing some upgrading of some kind. No visitors from Google have reached my site in the past hours … and I feel horribly isolated without Google! Sounds weird – but now that I think about it, every question that pops into my mind gets googled. Yahoo is there – but come on; Google is my beloved search engine.
Good luck Google! 
PS: Am only I experiencing this problem or others as well? I’ve tried reaching Google on several Macs and they all fail … weird. Now that I look at my site, I see that my ads are gone as well – they are Google Adsense.
While I was working with a friend on the old-school iWeb application, he asked me for a good effect to enlarge images. Making images open in a new window really sucks. So, what you do is you look into the jQuery library for a script that would provide what you want. Didn’t take long and the outcome was FancyBox. FancyBox, by me, is made up of three things. jQuery, Lightbox and FancyZoom. Since it is a mixture of all of them, I called it FancyBox.
Now what is FancyBox? It is a jQuery based script that will make thumbnailed images zoom up and enlarge. Best way to understand what I am talking about is to look at the demo.
You can take a look at this awesome thing in a demo page I made in iWeb:
http://guimkie.com/fancybox-beta/
Please only view this in FireFox and Safari on a Mac. These are the only things with which I have tested it. Camino fails completely.
I’ll open up the scripts as soon as I get it to work properly. That means I will have a pack for those who enjoy coding themselves and then I will have it integrated right into the next major update on iTweak! Yep – the next major update for iTweak, not the 1.2 version. You’ll see this stuff coming soon.
The more you nag me, the higher the chance I get this stuff done. I am kind of a person who always shifts things to the last minute, so tell me to be faster.