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TwitPic Uploader for Mac OS X

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009

TwitPic IconCreated this application a few weeks back for the sake of creating one while also improving my skills with Cocoa app development. It's a minimal, Mac OS X only, app to upload images to TwitPic after authenticating against your Twitter account.

As they say, TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. It let's you upload pics to TwitPic servers and optionally share them on your Twitter stream. However, this app goes a step ahead in one aspect, whereby it lets you upload almost any major image format, rather than TwitPic's only supported GIF, PNG and JPG. It uploads the image in PNG format, while also retaining the original quality. There's more! ( continue reading... )

Drupal Notifier - desktop notification app for Mac

Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009

As a part of learning desktop software development I had an idea to bring updates from a Drupal website to the desktop. There have been successful attempts in past to update oneself for updates (like new comments, new content, etc.) from their websites, via e-mail, twitter, etc., but nothing for the desktop.

Initially, I worked on the notifier using Python and Qt framework, however, Cocoa turned out to be more interesting. The current implementation of the notifier is made in Cocoa, which means it'll work only on Mac OS X. I have a working PyQt version too, but it's at a buggy state as I didn't dedicate much time to it. I'll work on the PyQt version sometime soon, so that the Drupal Notifier is well received by Linux and Windows users as well. Smile

This notifier is much generic already to be adopted by other web CMSs supporting XMLRPC protocol. However, I still labelled it with the word "Drupal". Angel ( continue reading... )