Jasper Hauser shares some of the thinking that went into the icon for Sofa’s file comparison app, Kaleidoscope. Beautiful site too. (via Wilson Miner)
Indie+Relief
All proceeds made on January 20, 2010 will be donated to Haiti. You get great software, Haiti gets financial help in its time of crisis.
Buy any of the software listed tomorrow (Wednesday) and developers will donate the proceeds to charities for Haiti relief.
I’ve been working on this site all weekend—it’s amazing how difficult it was to design a clean layout for that many listings (over 130 companies are involved), and I’m thrilled to have it online and ready to raise loads of money.
Please support this terrific effort.
Not only are the two applications parallel to one another, they also hold their own as individual apps and are best-of-breed for their respective platform.
— Shawn Blanc reviews getting things done app Things, for Mac and iPhone. I’ve just started trialling the desktop app, and particularly like the dynamic linking of emails to action items.
Is this actually his Mac for reals? Because the only thing better than the President using a Mac is the President having a motherfucking Pac-Man sticker on his Mac.
Jon Hicks writes about his largest icon assignment to date, the creation of more than 280 icons for Linotype’s Font Explorer X, which has just gone from free to paid. He details his process in Illustrator to create the initial vector art, and the subsequent task of tidying up the smaller sizes used in the app’s interface.
Picasa for Mac. Dear god. I did not see my buddies die face down in the mud for this.
— Neven Mrgan on Twitter regarding this.
Mike Rundle highlights some of the details which make LittleSnapper so polished.
I believe this is the design hand of Wolfgang Bartelme, superb.
Façade
$10 theming app for Leopard, coming soon. (via Danny Garcia)
EventBox
Mac desktop app that unifies Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and more. Now in beta. (via Cameron Hunt)
Afloat
Adds window management features to most Mac apps. Sweet. (via Shaun Inman)
