Tonight finally Pixelmator, the quite hyped new image editor for the Mac, has seen its first public release. And since I was actually looking forward to it, I gave it a try right after waking up ...
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Pixelmator released ... too early?
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New Pownce.app on the horizon?
For the last month and for some reason I never could log into Pownce using the official Pownce.app anymore. No idea why, but it seems like the App has enough problems to justify a move that I would have never guessed possible: Pownce now suggests more or less officially, that you should use a different app -- and PownceMonkey in particular -- if you're "experiencing substantial bugs".
(Pownce is currently working on a new Pownce app - in the meantime, users experiencing substantial bugs may want to try http://powncemonkey.com )
Big props for admitting that there are indeed tons of problems with the current app. Now I just hope, that the new app will offer such nice things like content preview and such :D For instance I'm still not really convinced that AIR is a good solution for stuff like that. First of all it still doesn't offer the look&feel of a native application and only in really rare cases it offers all the functionality the actual website -- it's supposed be a frontend for -- has. A small docklet that just shows me that there is new content would be much more interesting to me which just keeps me up to date and gives me some notification when someone posts something new.
While I'm at it: This would be really nice for FriendFeed too ;-)
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Pownce Desktop 2.0 alpha released
Pownce released last night the first alpha of their new desktop client. The previous, at least for me, had become unusable due to login problem and such, so I'm quite happy that there is finally an official -- yet still alpha -- replacement.
This new version thankfully comes with a simplified style and also embeds content like YouTube movies and the like instead of requiring users to once again go to the actual website. The client still uses Adobe AIR and is therefor available on Windows, MacOSX and Linux.
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Django-oopviews now in its own library
As you might have guessed based on the recent activity in django-zsutils, this project is more or less a dumping ground for some ideas I have and snippets I use on multiple sites (or at least see myself using on multiple sites). The new step for any of these is, whether I can see them as standalone library. If I do, I try to clean them up even more and split them of the main package.
This happened yesterday to my little object-oriented views-implementation for Django. If you don't know this library yet, please take a look at its README or this blog post. Basically, the idea is to be able to share some common functionality between views by making views out of Python classes.
Today I did some final cleanup, moved it over to setuptools and finally made an actual 0.2.0 release including PyPI-registration, files etc. So if you want to use it, just run
easy_install django-oopviews:-)I also registered the project on launchpad.net, so if you find any bugs or have some feature request or other questions, please ask there :-)
