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Hello.
I have been a developer for more than 20 years, supercomputers, mainframes, banking, games, film, military, embedded, robotics, blackberrys, you name it. I wrote a ray tracer years ago on BeOS (DDJ article in my name November 1999) I ported it to the Mac (Carbon API) in like an afternoon or something and the binary is still availbale on my "Free and fun stuff" web page.. I'd do more Carbon or Cocoa stuff, but I am not sure what.
I was mucking around with iCalender (RFC2445) protocol the other day in the code base on the corporate servers and I got to thinking what about a little application to synchronise the iCal calander program on the Mac and Google Calendar and sell it for like $10 or $20, maybe support .Mac services also. Nah, there is probably a free application to do it already. Then I started thinking some more...
What application would you pay $10 or $20 for that is small and not requiring a cast of thousands to develop and you simply just can not get on a Mac, every time I come up with something it has been done to death already... Maya and blender are excellent packages on the Mac, Shake vs Premiere, I dunno, I am not experienced enough on either to judge.. Office products... Microsoft Office or Open Office, games, thousands to choose from, little utilities, there are lots of them..
Name one small simple piece of software, not requiring huge investments or new equipment, you wish you could download for the Mac for a few dollars but can't..
Regan
I have been a developer for more than 20 years, supercomputers, mainframes, banking, games, film, military, embedded, robotics, blackberrys, you name it. I wrote a ray tracer years ago on BeOS (DDJ article in my name November 1999) I ported it to the Mac (Carbon API) in like an afternoon or something and the binary is still availbale on my "Free and fun stuff" web page.. I'd do more Carbon or Cocoa stuff, but I am not sure what.
I was mucking around with iCalender (RFC2445) protocol the other day in the code base on the corporate servers and I got to thinking what about a little application to synchronise the iCal calander program on the Mac and Google Calendar and sell it for like $10 or $20, maybe support .Mac services also. Nah, there is probably a free application to do it already. Then I started thinking some more...
What application would you pay $10 or $20 for that is small and not requiring a cast of thousands to develop and you simply just can not get on a Mac, every time I come up with something it has been done to death already... Maya and blender are excellent packages on the Mac, Shake vs Premiere, I dunno, I am not experienced enough on either to judge.. Office products... Microsoft Office or Open Office, games, thousands to choose from, little utilities, there are lots of them..
Name one small simple piece of software, not requiring huge investments or new equipment, you wish you could download for the Mac for a few dollars but can't..
Regan