My First WWDC

Posted June 16th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Design, Code, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Above: Apple’s live App Store wall at WWDC. It showed icons of 20,000 iPhone apps, organized by color. When an app was purchased, its icon rippled. It was also a great illustration of what WWDC is like: it’s a huge… Read more »

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Help decide the future of Delivery Status!

Posted May 1st, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Mac OS X, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

We’d love to hear what you think of Delivery Status. We can’t promise to add any of these features, but your feedback will help us figure out what to focus on as we improve Delivery Status in the future. Click here to… Read more »

Switch widgets resurrected!

Posted February 10th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Mac OS X

Quite a while back I decided to abandon my Bluetooth Switch and Firewall Switch widgets. I had already started on new versions of them, but they no longer worked in Leopard, few people seemed to be interested, and I… Read more »

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Plus: the anything widget (beta)

Posted February 7th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Mac OS X

Extend your Dock or desktop onto your Dashboard. Create visual shortcuts to your favorite sites. Create a button to open new widgets. Or just decorate your Dashboard. Just by dropping a file or two onto Plus, you… Read more »

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Getting creative with transparent PNGs for Delivery Status

Posted January 19th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Design, Mac OS X

The old Delivery Status graphics system When I started the Delivery Status widget it didn’t support many services. I wanted each service to be visually distinct, so I created entirely separate graphics for each one. It… Read more »

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