It’s 4:30 AM in Taipei. About two hours ago Apple announced iPhone SDK. Many friends of us feel the same like us: “Is it real?” All seems too good to be true.
From what we have learned so far, they are for real. At the moment, Apple’s own developer site is overwhelmed by the download traffic, and we have no luck to get a quick peek at the new things–free!–with which we are at the same time all familiar: Cocoa, Xcode, Interface Builder. In short, they provide us a platform to which we can quick transfer our desktop skills. And Apple has solved the distribution puzzle and given all developers the definitive answer: the iTunes App Store.
So this is what we have learned so far. We’ll get the SDK once it’s our turn to download. We’ll start do our homework (and yes we have been reading Craig Hockenberry et al. on previously learned facts of what a native SDK would offer to developers). Homework time!
Today we have released Mondrianum 1.0b3. This is mainly an interim release that extends the expiration date to March 31, 2008. We understand that many of you are still waiting for a Tiger version, and we are working on that. The biggest issue we have at hand is to find a replacement for the cover flow component (which is not easy to do on Tiger unless we want to do all the OpenGL ourselves).Other than that, we have also updated the documentation (some minor corrections).We have also received a number of incompatibility reports. Although some of them are addressed in 1.0b3, bugs may still come up from unexpected corners. If that’s the case, let us know.Mondrianum has version update notification built in (rather inconspicuous though, given the nature of a plug-in). In any case, if you’re reading this, just download it directly from here. Replace the old one with what you’ve just downloaded, and quit and reopen the application you’re running, and that’s it.
We are moving Mondrianum’s download URL to tsiohpuann.com, which we also own (pointing your browser there will redirect you back). Tsioh-puann means rock (specifically foundation on a rock) in our native Taiwanese language.
We’re gladly surprised by the popularity of Mondrianum, hence the decision to serving you the file from another server. We’re working hard on fixing the bugs (and thank you all for reporting them to us) and on polishing the UI further. Hopefully we’re have a new release soon. Until then!
We’ve just released the second beta of Mondrianum (formerly CocoaKuler), our OS X color picker plug-in powered by Adobe® kuler, a cool service where you can find, explore, contribute and share great color themes.
Since its release on Monday we have received many positive feedbacks and also requests for a Tiger version (we didn’t expect that request could be so strong). So it’s on our to-do list now, we’ll work on that. The first Tiger port might not have UI components as shiny as Leopard’s cover flow, but we’re sure the core features will be there, to make a bridge between the cool content and community that is kuler and native Mac apps.
As we have explained earlier, the Cocoa part in our plug-in’s former name is a misnomer, hence the name change. We hope this makes a helpful utility for your creative work life–and feel free to let us know how we can make it better.
One final note: Mondrianum is currently a free beta. You can try it until it expires on February 29, 2008.
Thank you!
Mondrianum can be downloaded here:
http://www.lithoglyph.com/mondrianum.
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