There have recently been a lot of discussions about the value of software and about things like MacHeist or MacZot, or other software-giveaway things. Something i’d like to talk about in this post is the value of freeware software and the time invested in it.…
Read onI’m going to talk about one of the many causes of software monopolies, which are closed file formats. We all know that if an application can generate data that no other application can understand, the user will be forced to stick with said application if he happened to do some wo…
Read onNew version of Camouflage has just been released today. On of the new things was have the windows not fading out while Exposé is used. To add this functionality is quite interesting, but not so easy when using an undocumented API. This post will show how to use that API and wh…
Read onTomorrow i’m finally leaving for a vacation, going to Vienna, i’ve been told is a very beautiful city. We all deserve a vacation once in a while.…
Read onThese days there have been long discussions about the MacHeist bundle and its effects on the involved developers. For the few that still don’t know what the MacHeist bundle is, it is a collection of applications sold at an extremely discounted price.…
Read onOne thing i hate of the NSTextField is that while you can’t use the “enter” key to insert newlines characters you still can insert them, for example, by copying in them text which contains newlines characters. This is plain annoying sometimes! I made this NSFormatter that can be …
Read onLike every developer blog worth of this name, it needs an article on software piracy. This is going to be rather long. I’ll start by talking about the causes of software piracy, its effects and what we can and cannot do to limit its damages.…
Read onA new version is out and it fixes a very crazy bug that could consume hell of a lot ram when icons were shown and hidden often.…
Read onWe are proud to present you the restyled briksoftware.com! Hope you like it!…
Read onOtxhttp://otx.osxninja.com is a disassembler based on Apple’s otool, it has some really funky features, but why should a normal developer need such a tool?…
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