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I have been involved in quite a number of Mac and iPhone/iPod software projects, and I'm still actively working on a lot of them. Some, however, have been adopted by others. And some aren't even listed here.

Many Tricks News

Mac Switcher Bundle

Witch 2.0.2

Leech 1.1.4

The Future of the Butler (Butler 4.1.6)

Service Scrubber 1.1.5

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Goose Apps News

One Down, or should that be “Up”…

We’re almost there…

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Archetypical Developers

Daniel Jalkut
Red Sweater Blog

Jens Alfke
Thought Palace

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch
Tales from the Red Shed

Martin Kahr
Coffee & Cocoa

Peter Ammon
Ridiculous Fish

Wil Shipley
Call Me Fishmeal

Other Developer Resources

CocoaBuilder
Cocoa Developers Mailing List Archive

CocoaDev
Cocoa Developers Wiki

Cocoa Dev Central
Learn Cocoa

Butler

Distributed by Many Tricks

Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Simply put, it's the productivity tool to end all productivity tools.

What I Did: All code, all design.

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Clipboards

Distributed by Goose Apps

Clipboards lets you store and retrieve any number of text snippets, enabling you to quickly collect and re-use blocks of text with just one tap.

App store submission pending.

What I Did: All code, most design. (Select graphics by Joseph Wain.)

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Leech

Distributed by Many Tricks

Leech is a lightweight download manager that's fully integrated with your browser. Therefore, it feels like a natural extension to your browser's download functionality.

What I Did: Most code, all design.

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Lounge

Distributed by Goose Apps

At this time, the Lounge is an iPhone/iPod touch Twitter client. A few months from now, though, it will be much more than that, both in terms of functionality and supported platforms.

What I Did: All code, most design. (Conceptual design is an ongoing team effort. Server-side code by Volker Steck. Graphics based on artwork by Lars Herrmann.)

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MenuCalendarClock

Distributed by Objectpark

Partially based on Calendarclock, MenuCalendarClock is an iCal compatible menu calendar and a configurable menu clock.

What I Did: All code, all design for the original Calendarclock.

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MUMenu

Distributed by MacUpdate

MUMenu is a menu bar item application that checks periodically for daily Mac OS X software updates at MacUpdate. You'll be able to browse small descriptions of the updated products, go to More Info pages, and download them.

What I Did: All code, most design for MUMenu 2. (This was a complete rewrite. The original MUMenu was created by Slava Karpenko. Icon by Dan Sandler.)

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Name Mangler

Distributed by Many Tricks

Formerly known as File List, Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports the following renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

What I Did: All code, all design.

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Scream

Distributed by Goose Apps

Scream is a party game as well as a stress-relieving application that measures the intensity of your scream, converts that intensity to a score, and (optionally) posts that score in a way that every other Scream user can both see it and compete with it.

App store submission pending.

What I Did: Most code, all design. (Server-side code by Volker Steck.)

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Service Scrubber

Distributed by Many Tricks

With Service Scrubber, you can restructure the services menu, change service keyboard shortcuts, and disable services.

What I Did: All Code, most design. (Icon by Lars Herrmann.)

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TextExpander

Distributed by SmileOnMyMac

Formerly known as Textpander, TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

What I Did: All code, all design for the original Textpander. (TextExpander has since been tremendously improved by my good friends at SmileOnMyMac.)

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TubiTunes

Distributed by Many Tricks

TubiTunes lets you download videos from web video communities such as YouTube; and it lets you convert both those downloaded videos and other movie files to lots of different video formats — including presets for iPhone and iPod.

What I Did: All code, all design.

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Usher

Distributed by Many Tricks

Formerly known as yFlicks (and before that, Clip Show), Usher is your hub for organizing and viewing movies from iPhoto, iTunes, and of course your own movies collection.

Usher is currently in private beta stage and will be released in early 2009. For the time being, its abovementioned predecessor yFlicks is the way to go.

What I Did: Most code, most design. (Original YouTube integration code co-authored by Alexander Schön. Icon by Lars Herrmann.)

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Witch

Distributed by Many Tricks

Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.

What I Did: All code, most design. (Icon by Lars Herrmann.)

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