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Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by deluxeroyale »

markchristian wrote: post #47
MikeW wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will you post traffic stats and any other measurements you can come up with?

Sure, here's a screenshot of my hourly report for the past day. Note that the site hasn't gotten much traffic in general since most people come to it directly through the App Store — that is, despite pretty decent sales, the site has historically only had a few hundred hits a day. http://idisk.me.com/shinyplasticbag/Public/Pictures/Skitch/V... Let me know what else you'd like to know. :)

Wonderful tool! I've been doing this with the help of steer mouse and a clipboard history tool. Maybe a bit to much to ask for, but how many sales are you up on now?

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by dguaraglia »

markchristian wrote: post #52
dguaraglia wrote: post #13

Is this really dependent on any particular Lion feature? I was about to buy it but I'm still on 10.6.8 (never bothered to update to Lion because of the myriad annoying new 'features'). tl;dr: if you can make it work in 10.6.8, I think you might get some more $love$ from some of us.

If you're feeling adventurous, I've heard success stories from people manually hacking the Info.plist on the direct download version. It currently doesn't require any Lion specific APIs, but I plan on updating it in the future to make use of the nice flocking icons while dragging, and that will require Lion.

I'll try the plist hack! Thank you for the tip. I think I can live without the flocking icons, but I suppose it's about freaking time I update my OS :)

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by dguaraglia »

markchristian wrote: post #52
dguaraglia wrote: post #13

Is this really dependent on any particular Lion feature? I was about to buy it but I'm still on 10.6.8 (never bothered to update to Lion because of the myriad annoying new 'features'). tl;dr: if you can make it work in 10.6.8, I think you might get some more $love$ from some of us.

If you're feeling adventurous, I've heard success stories from people manually hacking the Info.plist on the direct download version. It currently doesn't require any Lion specific APIs, but I plan on updating it in the future to make use of the nice flocking icons while dragging, and that will require Lion.

Done. Here, have my money! :)

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by Stwerp »

AlisdairO wrote: post #122
runn1ng wrote: post #97

Hello, a quick question... my Mac cannot be upgraded to Lion. Is there a slight possibility of making it work for Snow Leopard? And if not - I would like to know - just for general interest :) - what is the blocker.

As a lion-hater I have the same question! I'd love to buy this app.

Yeah, I just tried the trial and got an error. Strange. I hope the trend of Lion-only apps doesn't continue because I just can't cripple my workflow to "upgrade."

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by mcdillon »

kareemm wrote: post #77
markchristian wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's me — and a very high-end microphone that I managed to borrow from someone. ;) The mic made all the difference.

A hack for getting good audio on screencasts: sit in a closet with a blanket over your head while you record the audio. It makes even a built-in Mac mic sound good.

There was an episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike Rowe was recording the narratives in a hotel room by simply going under the blanket of his bed with the microphone. I'm sure there was additional tweaking production value, but this is good advice!

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by thoughtsimple »

dkersten wrote: post #90

I don't understand the part about browser tabs - when I want to drag something from one tab to another, I just hover the mouse over the destination tab and the browser switches to that tab. Takes about a second.

That works on Chrome but not Safari.

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by bunnyhero »

gojomo wrote: post #82

Cool! I could see this same gestural/persistent-floaty trick being useful on iOS (and similar full-screen foreground or touch environments) as well. (Though, reserving a side of the screen as a clip-dock would be an obvious touch-OS alternative, and might work better on touch screens than it would on a desktop. On the desktop, the corners and edge are already heavily colonized with meaning.)

I'm reminded of the Newton clipboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhivPLXrLjk

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by doc4t »

citricsquid wrote: post #15

This is a fantastic app, not just because of how much of a great utility it is (does anything like this exist for windows?) but the name is absolutely brilliant. Not only is it very easy to remember "Dragon Drop", it's also an excellent wordplay ("drag'n'drop"). The video is very good too. So wonderful, a perfect combination.

The "shake" effect in Windows will cause everything but the active window to minimize - it's possible the action can be bound to other commands.

"does anything like this exist for windows?" Not the exact same but if you start to drag then you can alt-tab to focus the application where you want to drop (if you can't see it already)

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