Pickle Pumpers http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress something like a software development company Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:04:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Xtract http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=566 http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=566#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:13:29 +0000 Pickle Pumpers http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=566 Project : Xtract Version : 1.0d3 Platform : Mac OS X 10.5 – 10.6 (32/64 bit universal) Status : Develpment Download : (coming soon) Price : Free License : Freeware (Open Source) Screenshots : (coming soon) Source Code : (coming soon)


Description:
A simple extraction program that unpacks all the major formats.
There are quite a few freeware extraction apps for the Mac but they’re all lacking in one regard or another.
• They only support one file format.
• They’re ugly.
• They don’t look like they belong on a Mac.
• They use a grotesque terminal-like popup window.
• They hate your freedom.


Features:
• Built using Apple interface standards so it looks like it belongs on your Mac; no ugly, terminal-like popups.
• Context menu integration.
• Right click drag and drop “Extract here” unpacking.
• Did I mention it’s free?


Developer Features:
• Open source so you’re free to use it in your open source apps.
• Objective-C compliant interface.
• Library based so you can yank out the extraction bit from the interface and start use it immediately. I’m amazed in this day and age of OOP programming how mangled other people’s code is…
• Fully documented code written for usability.
- When you look at the code you instantly understand what does what and how to use it.
- Clean, legible, consistent formatting.
- Written in this century using a modern IDE so no legacy C style cryptic variable or function names. Clear, Obj-C style naming conventions so you instantly understand what a function does and what its parameters are.
- All reference code cleaned up as well so you don’t have my nice beautiful code and then some code that looks like a 1980′s C programmer vomited in your IDE.



]]> http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=566 0 Podcast Recorder http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=547 http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=547#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:42:41 +0000 Pickle Pumpers http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/?p=547 Project: Podcast Recorder (placeholder name)
Version: n/a
Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 – 10.6 (32/64 bit universal) [Windows version coming soon]
Status: Design – Requirements stage
Download: (coming soon)
Price: Free / $15 (cheap, so buy it)
License: Freeware / Commercial
Screenshots: (coming soon)

Description:
Allows anyone to produce professional sounding podcasts with high-quality audio when using Internet based phone services and chat systems like Skype and iChat.

Features:
Records sound locally on each computer so you get the best quality then automatically sends recordings to the podcast engineer.

Multiple ways to receive remote files (FTP, email, network transfer, bonjour, and Internet bonjour)†

Intuitive design that actively helps users get the best audio
  • Low volume warnings – local and remote to audio engineer
  • Noise warnings (Mic rubbing against your shirt?) – local and remote to audio engineer
  • Dynamic audio range compression – whispers and yells sound the same
  • Audio channel isolation so other system noises are not heard in recording
Automated Garageband and/or Logic Pro project creation†
  • Creates tracks and inserts appropriate audio files
  • Configures track audio levels so volume is even
  • Project templates for intros and outros
  • Audio files are automatically synced
Audio engineer features
  • Mark and label segments†
  • Call cuing – Manage inbound/outbound callers†
  • Mute callers
  • Chat room moderator
Text chat built in so you can message members during chat
Unlimited remote callers† (freeware supports one remote caller)
Unlimited licenses for remote callers (you can give away as many call in clients as you want)
Automatic updates via the Internet
Free updates for a year (cheap subscription afterwards)†
Cross-platform license (One price for all operating systems) †
Native system calls for best performance (OS X uses OS X frameworks, Windows uses Windows frameworks)

† Commercial only feature

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Version: n/a
Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 10.6 (32/64 bit universal)
Status: Design – Prototyping
Download: (coming soon)
Price: Free / $5 (cheap, so buy it)
License: Freeware / Commercial
Screenshots: (coming soon)

Description:
A comic book viewer specifically targeted to the MacBook user.

Features:
Native OS X application so it is FAST! No slow-poke Java here.

Supports all major image formats (if OS X understands it then you can view it)

Rotates display depending on the orientation of the MacBook or iPhone.

Reads all major compression formats, PDFs, and folders

  • Reads CBR, CBZ, 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, and Z
  • Supports encrypted, password protected files†

Book browser

  • Bookshelf like interface (think iBooks)
  • Fast sorting and searching by information added in library mode (requires information to be added in pay version but can be used in free version)

Library features†

  • Add information like author, category, rating, etc.
  • Data is stored with books so can be used by others if you share your books with them
  • Data can be shared with a central server so books are automatically recognized and information is updated

Displays pages intelligently

  • Wide pages are shown in their entirety then when you press Next Page it zooms in and scrolls left to right (or right to left in Manga mode)
  • Shows two pages at a time automatically if you’re using a wide screen but can be put in single page mode

Touch pad gestures

  • Scroll up/down, left right easily
  • Next page, last page
  • Zoom in, zoom out

Remembers what you were doing

  • If you’re in the middle of a book it opens the book there but if you were on the last page it opens from the beginning
  • If you were viewing the book in single page mode but the default is two page it opens it in single page mode.

Editing features†

  • Allows you to mark pages as “do not view” so if you skip ad pages if you want
  • Pages can be deleted if they are deemed pointless (like scanner tags)
  • Deleted and skipped pages are “fingerprinted” so they are automatically deleted or skipped in other books too

Automation features†

  • Previously deleted pages are deleted in new books
  • Previously skipped pages are skipped in new books
  • Files and file names are standardized
  • Extraneous garbage is removed from image file names and books file names
  • Books, folders, and files are converted to standard, open format (cbz since RAR is propriety and not a friendly license for indie developers)

Automatic updates via the Internet
Free updates for a year (cheap subscription afterwards)†

† Commercial only feature

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