MemoryMiner

How I managed to make the MemoryMiner web viewer support multiple localizations.

I’m incredibly happy to report that MemoryMiner 2.1 is out the door. This release builds on hard-won learnings from the past six months, including a rather interesting project at Duke University which I’ll write about in a separate post. I had two major goals for this release. The first was a radical improvement in the [...]

Thoughts on using MemoryMiner to create physical museum exhibits that let users “step inside” printed artwork.

Perspectives on using the Cappuccino framework to build web apps from the perspective of a Cocoa desktop app developer.

Whenever you make a major release of software, you always worry that there will be bugs that weren’t found during testing. I’ve shipped enough software on enough platforms to know that there will always be problems that appear after you ship. This said, I’m happy to announce that version 2.0.5 is now available. It offers [...]

It’s been been just over a week since MemoryMiner 2.0 was released. This version was way too long coming, but such is the nature of software sometimes. As I’ve said many times on the MDN show (a podcast for indie Mac developers on which I’m a co-host) finished software does not a product make: you [...]

One of the areas I’ve been refining in this last round of work on MemoryMiner 2.0 is the way that video is displayed in the attachment viewer. Most consumer point-and-shoot cameras take video, so I often shoot short videos that don’t need editing and attach them to photos. One of my favorites is of my [...]

It’s been so long since I last posted, I’m truly embarrassed. However, it’s not without reason. I’ve been so heads down with getting MemoryMiner 2.0 ready for sale, that I’ve simply been ignoring the blog. Since MemoryMiner is very very nearly ready to ship (Fabio, you’re going to have that beautiful new web site ready [...]

Would it kill you to hire competent translators? Originally uploaded by j4johnfox Having an Italian wife means spending lots of time in Italy. I really enjoy collecting examples of crummy translations, so I couldn’t pass this one up. Click on the image to see the note in Flickr (created with MemoryMiner, natch).

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