Caffeinated Cocoa

So, it has only been two months
A while ago, app4mac purchased Magrathea. It is now called Rapido Map and a beta is available here. It is completely free and has some great new icons (certainly not one of my strong points). It currently does not support importing data from Magrathea, but they have said they would add that in the final version. I’m sure they will be adding lots of exciting new features in the future.

The people at app4mac are great, so I really encourage you to try (and, perhaps buy) their other applications.

Also, I was away for over a month at UCSD doing an awesome engineering program. It was a great experience.

But now, I am back, and being a geek and all, I have nothing to do. Well, not really, but whatever.

So, I have been working on a completely new application. I don’t want to say too much about it, but if you are a facebook addict, you should like it. Using the magic of cocoa and some truly excellent open source code, I managed to write most of it in a little over a week. So, expect a feature-complete, almost bug-free (heh) beta this week, and a final version next week.

Hello…
Well, I am Adam Leonard, the sole developer for Caffeinated Cocoa.

I live in the Los Angeles area, and will enter my senior year of high school in the fall.

As you probably have not guessed, this is my blog where I might post about Magrathea, my geotagging app, and Google Importer, a plugin for Spotlight to add Google results. I also want to blog a bit about programming with Cocoa, the library used in both of my apps.

I know there are so many cocoa blogs on the internets (wow, the OS X spell checker says that is a word) so I probably will not have much to contribute, but, eh. I will be happy if I reach 10 posts this year

Anyway, I finished school last week (yay!), so now I have much more time to work on coding.

I also just released Magrathea 0.5 . There is a ton of new stuff in this version, like Flickr uploads and a beautiful new icon by Fernando Lins. In my desperate attempt to join the Delicious Generation I have tried to clean up the UI and add superfluous effects and gradients. Leopard is going to be awesome for this.

0.5 will almost certainly be the last beta of Magrathea. After 0.5, I just want to fix bugs, add some polish, and maybe finish a couple of features if I can work around some incredibly annoying Yahoo bugs. I will try to get 1.0 out next week.

And no, I have not forgotten about Google Importer. I haven’t worked on it in a forever, but I want to change that. I am considering doing a complete rewrite of it and use Yahoo’s APIs so I can add a bunch of cool features.

Also, several people have asking about how I brutally hacked Spotlight to search Google, so I will write a post about that soon.