It’s been a week past April 1st. We know, we know–the last version of our color plug-in, Mondrianum, had expired on that date (and having used Taipei time, it was many hours ahead of many people’s timezone).
We have always liked to idea of desktop-Internet integration, and Mondrianum is one of the little ideas that turns out to be a very useful tool for many people. It makes Adobe’s kuler instantly available to many desktop applications on Mac.
We have been thinking of making Mondrianum a commercial product since Day 1 (Day 0 actually, being programmer speak). As kuler requires developers to obtain the permission to use its API for commercial purposes, we’re now working on the process of getting it.
We do have some urgent tasks at hand for the past two weeks, but we shouldn’t have let the expiration slipped in at the first place. We apologize if it has caused any inconvenience to you.
Ok, that’s the thing. For the Leopard version of Mondrianum, we have come up with yet another interim release that extends the expiration date to May 15, 2008 (GMT, not Taipei Time this time :). And also after some debating, we have decided to release a trial Tiger version–a functional version without the cover flow component that its Leopard sibling has. That is an intended omission as we have tried a few replacement ideas, none of which worked really that well.
So for Leopard users, just download the latest disk image from here. For Tiger users, please also download the image for documentation. As for the color picker itself, here’s the Tiger version. Just drop the decompressed file to your ~/Library/ColorPickers folder, and that’s it.
Thanks for everyone’s encouragement and interest in our humble plug-in. 