Does this look like Apple’s designed its App Store in a way to allow for not-free updates one day?

I like how The Loop just asks what type of ads I might be interested in, instead of coming up with a crazy Facebook stalking system.

Recently, I was the lighting designer for Groundswell South Coast at Lighthouse Church, with special guest Stan Walker. It was a great night with over 750 people packed into the auditorium! Having got the job last year by simply turning up to help on the morning of the event, it was nice to have a bit of time to plan and prepare this year.

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Thank you Facebook for providing me with that clarification. (Does anyone else see this?)

Here’s a little bit from my Google profile trying to show where ‘Australia’ is. (No, that marker is not anywhere near where I’ve ever lived)

Very useful feature of Xcode 4* – in an Instruments time profile, just double click one of your methods and it’ll show you the code and which lines are the killers.

* I’m not sure if this was around before Xcode 4 or not – I only just found it now.

Well, everything from Apple has always been more expensive in Australia compared to the US. Now, apps from the Mac App Store will also be more expensive than in the US, even with our almost 1:1 exchange rate.

Let’s have a look at Coda. Buying direct from Panic is US$99 (around AU$99). On the app store, it’s AU$119.

Another example is Omni Graffle Pro. At the Omni Store, it’s US$199, or even better, as a student I can get it for US$119. On the app store it’s AU$249 – more than twice the price that I can get direct.

I think I’ll be avoiding the Mac App Store as much as possible, especially for more expensive professional apps.

Just like Steve Jobs had a little laugh about ‘Flash’, Apple also has a go at trying to redefine ‘Open’:

Why doesn’t it say ‘Closed’, as the store isn’t actually open yet…

I’ve created a new page with all my free design resources for download (all 2 of them!… there should be more coming sometime though). On that page, you can find some new whiteboard vector textures. I made them by slowly brushing off whiteboard marker from my whiteboard. It creates the dirty cracked look, as seen in the ‘Stock’ graphic above. There will be many more of these whiteboard ones to come (I’ve got a stack of .JPGs to process).

I hope you find them useful!

Now that I’ve disabled Comic Sans, I’ll never have to suffer through it again!
(at least not on my computer)

On your Mac, open Font Book in the Applications folder, find Comic Sans, and click the checkbox disable button down the bottom. If that isn’t satisfying enough, you may also enjoy deleting it completely. (although I think I have to say I wouldn’t recommend that.)

I’ve finally got around to updating my home pages. Most of the little things that’ve been annoying me for a while have been fixed!

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