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blownd

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About blownd

Developer of Mac and web apps. Living the good life in sunny Queensland, Australia.

http://lowndes.net

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    "Stop looking at social media websites, and instead work out what contribution you can make to the world, and go and do it," he says.

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    Comment #4474010

    You might like to take a look at my Mac app, it allows you to switch between Chrome and Safari tabs with cmd-tab and type to search for a tab by name: http://most-advantageous.com/…

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    Comment #2789022

    An app I developed, Optimal Layout, lets you switch to a window by typing it's name: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ It doesn't solve all the problems in this post, bu…

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    Comment #2682418

    The best: http://www.crikey.com.au/

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    Comment #2680593

    The layouts you save are monitor agnostic; so if you save it on one monitor then apply it on another it will be applied proportionately the same. It's also really easy to rapidly a…

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    Comment #2677262

    Can I piggy back on this to spruik my Mac window manager here? I posted a separate submission this morning but it hasn't seen any attention and I thought it would really appeal to …

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    Comment #2676044

    Hi HN, this is my OS X window management application and it's got some unique features I thought fellow hackers would enjoy: the latest update adds tab browsing for Safari, Google …

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    Comment #2642861

    History of the World - J. M. Roberts http://www.amazon.com/History-World-J-M-Roberts/dp/019521043... This was my lunch time reading for many months whilst doing contract web develo…

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    Comment #2636611

    Absolutely! I develop Mac window management apps and every time a new OS is released I half expect Apple to come and wipe out my product line.

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    Comment #2636595

    Ludicrous link bait headline and tabloid trash article from The Register. Apple didn't copy the app, it sound like they were maintaining control of their interests; no one should b…

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    Comment #2522608

    I'll share some numbers: I've got three utilities in the Mac App Store, two currently free: WindowFlow[1] & Window Keys[2], and one paid: Optimal Layout[3]. Firstly, from what I've…

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    Comment #2465980

    There are loads of great resources out there for learning Cocoa for Mac development but because Xcode 4 is so new you aren't going to find much aside from Apple's own documentation…

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    Comment #2151079

    Apparently the state of New York has roughly the same GDP as Australia. This chart matches each state to a country with equal GDP: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01…

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    Comment #2027448

    Check out http://macdeveloper.net/ You offer a incentive to testers there and they give you feedback on you app. I've used it a couple of times with really good results.

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    Comment #1889562

    Working alone from home I've found myself enjoying playing with the kids toys during a break. Last year I played a lot of swing-ball (or totem-tennis as it's also known), I recentl…

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    Comment #1524697

    Mac Developers might like to take a look at my project: Optimal Layout. It gives you very flexible keyboard commands to control windows as well as a window switcher: http://most-ad…