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MarkdownMail 1.0

Justin Williams — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:15:26 +0000

MarkdownMail is the fruits of an idea that popped in my head as I was working on a new feature for Elements 1.1. I write everything in Markdown: blog posts, READMEs, articles, etc. Why not write emails using it? There’s no great way to write HTML emails on iOS despite the MessageUI libraries supporting sending HTML content into it. MarkdownMail lets you compose your email messages using Markdown syntax and then converts it into an HTML message. If you’re interested in that sort of thing, check it out.

Today 2.5

Justin Williams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:02:48 +0000

A long in the making update to my popular daily calendar application. New features include the often requested default calendar for creating new events and tasks as well as support for creating daily, weekly, monthly and yearly recurring events.

In all honesty I should have had this released back in May or June, but between my flirtation with Android, some experimentation on some new Mac offerings, a contract iPad gig and recently Elements, it stayed in perpetual beta. Such is the indie life I suppose.

360|iDev Austin

Justin Williams — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +0000

If you’re looking for a great reason to visit Austin this fall, be sure to come to 360|iDev in November. I’ll be giving a talk titled “Punching Out: Selling Your iPhone Apps To Someone Else” where I will walk you through my experience selling off my original iPhone business to BitBQ. Lots of other great speakers, geeky content and I’ve heard plenty of great food trucks.

Preview: Elements for iPad and iPhone

Justin Williams — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:05:40 +0000

Our pals at MacStories have an exclusive look at my soon to be released Dropbox powered text editor for iOS called Elements. Wait…I thought I didn’t build software for the App Store? More on that in a bit.

Die You Damn, Dirty Tab Bar

Justin Williams — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:38:46 +0000

If you’re just joining me because you read about my thoughts on pull-to-refresh, might I interest you in my thoughts on why I think the UITabBar control is a cop-out and lazy design?

Time Moves On

Justin Williams — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:21:33 +0000

Jeff LaMarche responds to my pull-to-refresh piece:

We don’t know how to use new concepts “properly” until they’ve been used a lot, in a lot of different ways, by a lot of different people. There’s nothing to guide the use of the novel. There’s no way to find what works and what doesn’t except by trying. And sometimes the things we try won’t work, or won’t work for all people. Sometimes they’ll be downright bad.

IRQ Conflict [3] - Antisocial Justin Gets An iPhone 4

Justin Williams — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:16:45 +0000

The latest episode of my new 10 minute podcast with friend and local .Net developer Mikel Berger is now live. We discuss the iPhone 4, iOS 4 from a user and developer’s perspective and why I’ll never use FaceTime again. You’ve certainly got 10 minutes to listen.

Jesper on ‘xlang’

Justin Williams — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:38:22 +0000

Jesper thinks LLVM, LLDB and similar projects are just part of Apple’s long-term plan to replace Objective-C with a new language.

WWDC Music iMixes

Justin Williams — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:06:27 +0000

One of the subtle things you take away from the week at WWDC is that the pre/post-session music is pretty good. It’s a mix of catchy pop, known classics and a bit of the obscure. Unbeknownst to me, Jeremy Reichman has been compiling an iMix each year with the music.

(via Patrick McCarron)

Why there’s no bounce scrolling in Android

Justin Williams — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:27:27 +0000

In my Android review, I mentioned that Android’s lack of bounce scrolling was unfortunate. It turns out that bounce scrolling is something Apple patented back in 2007. No technical limitations. Just another unfortunate use of software patents to compete.

(thanks to Nathaniel Irons for the tip)