API Search in Code Pilot

And here’s a direct link to Code Pilot 1.2 package.

Here’s a direct link to Code Pilot 1.1.2 package.

TalkinPics is a set of various images that come in handy while traveling to foreign countries. You don’t have to speak any foreign language, you can just search for a desired image, tap it to enlarge it and show it to someone.

As mentioned at the beginning, TalkinPics is an iPhone version of a book. Application was prepared in close cooperation with Media HRC – we’ve worked together on refining graphics and figuring out the best navigation scheme, so TalkinPics users could have the best experience browsing and using the mobile version of the book on their mobile devices.

For the ease of searching the right image, you will find 6 categories:

• transportation
• food
• accomodation
• hygiene & clothing
• health, safety, leisure
• numbers, colours, weather

The use of TalkinPics does not require Wi-Fi nor any other data transfer (and it also works on other iOS devices, like iPod Touch), so you won’t be surprised by the roaming charges at the end of your trip. All of the content is on your iPhone. We would recommend it to any person that sometimes stumbles upon communication problems while travelling :-)

Support for Xcode 3.2.4 pre-release

We’ve added support for the latest version of Xcode.

Bug causing crashes when searching inside of a class is fixed

When you pressed space on a class symbol in Code Pilot and started typing your query, you could get a crash. It’s fixed now.

Letter ’s’ is not ignored in search queries anymore

I don’t even know how to comment on that. Apparently use of \s was the last bit of Perl regexp mechanism still in my mind.

You can download the new version directly from here.

Experimental support for older Xcode versions and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

By popular demand, we have made Code Pilot compatible with Leopard and earlier versions of Xcode. It’s still an experimental feature, so remember to try it for yourself before you buy! It’s also worth reminding, that Code Pilot’s license is user-bound, so you can use it on many computers. If you have some old machines lying around, you can use it on them without needing to buy another serial number.

Fast search field cleaning with cmd-backspace

cmd-backspace works with input search field in a smart way now – it deletes the whole query, but if you’ve selected some file or class, it let’s you stay in it and just change the query. Hitting cmd-backspace again will bring you back to project-wide search.

Auto-copying selection from current editor window into Code Pilot search field

This is something widely requested as well. If you have anything selected in your active editor window, it will be automatically entered into Code Pilot for you when you bring it up.

For multiple screen setups, Code Pilot window appears now where the currently used editor window resides

This makes working with multiple displays much easier. Code Pilot will just show on the screen you’re currently looking at ;-)

Source code files for languages not indexed by Xcode (Ruby, Python, HTML, etc) are now visible in search

Source code files for less obvious languages will be visible in project search now. This is more of a bugfix – it should work in the first place.

Symbols for these languages now visible when introspecting currently edited file

Because of the fact that Xcode doesn’t index symbols for aforementioned languages, we couldn’t include them in project-wide search. But what we’ve managed to do is let you browse symbols for currently edited file. It works in a funny way with HTML – just start editing file of this kind, then bring Code Pilot up and press space. Ruby, Python and other non-indexed languages should work the same way.

Many small fixes and improvements

The usual suspects. Like pasting into search field.

More on Code Pilot for Xcode on http://codepilot.cc/.
And direct download link again: CodePilot-1.1.

Nozbe is one of the leading web-based productivity solutions on the market. Together with Nozbe team, we’ve decided to bring its power to your pocket. Today, we’re releasing Nozbe 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. In the meantime, we’re working on an iPad dedicated version.

Nozbe 2.0 comes as a completely redesigned application, with new features and improvements.

Available now

What’s new in Nozbe 2.0:

• greatly improved sync capability,
• beautifully redesigned user interface,
• collaboration features.

Nozbe 2.0 stands out by going beyond personal task management system with new collaboration features, which will help you get stuff done with your friends and colleagues.

With Nozbe 2.0 you can:

• Share your projects – invite other people, share your projects with them.
• Delegate actions – assign tasks to people on your team.
• Comments – comment and read others’ comments on tasks in shared projects.
• Files – browse and open files uploaded through Nozbe.com right on your device.

You can try and use this application separately (without Nozbe.com account) or if you want, Nozbe for iPhone can seemlessly sync your data with your Nozbe.com account.

Here is what industry experts think about Nozbe:

“The ultimate GTD app” (Lifehack.org)

“Nozbe is a solid online organizer specific to Getting Things Done” (Lifehacker)

“A GTD app that keeps it simple, when I saw Nozbe I smiled” (ZDNet)

See what others think about Nozbe

Now with Nozbe for iPhone you can bring the power and simplicity of Nozbe to your favourite phone (or iPod) and sync your information both ways.

Simply Get It Done with Nozbe for the iPhone!

I would like to thank all our friends who helped us make Code Pilot a reality with their invaluable feedback and insightful suggestions.

We tried hard to refrain from introducing any new major features in the Beta releases, as our main goal was to make this product’s core functionality rock-solid first. However, we do have many very exciting new features scheduled for future releases, so there’s still a lot of cool things ahead of us!

To make Code Pilot’s adoption easier and give you more time to grasp the ways you may benefit from it, we have enabled the unregistered version to work without the time limits per Xcode session for a period of 10 days! After that you still can use all Code Pilot’s features within the standard limit of 15 minutes per session.

Below you can find a list of changes and tweaks introduced in all the beta versions of Code Pilot from the beginning until current version
(1.0).

Version 1.0

• Trial version works without per-session time limits for 10 days now.
• Symbol name matching algorithm revised and improved
• Xcode 3.2.3 pre-release for iPhone OS SDK 4.0 beta 3 support
• Many minor fixes and performance improvements

Version 1.0b11

• Xcode 3.2.3 pre-release for iPhone OS SDK 4.0 beta 2 support

Version 1.0b10

• Many performance improvements for large codebases
• Search mechanism scores uppercase characters higher for better CamelCase support
• Loading symbols on demand (search window appears immediately from now on)
• Subprojects inclusion in search results is now optional (check preferences pane)
• More convenient delays and timers for query input

Version 1.0b9

• Xcode 3.2.3 now supported

Version 1.0b8

• Performance improvements (esp. for large codebases)

Version 1.0b7

• Xcode 3.2.2 beta 6 now supported
• Subproject files now open and list contents properly

Version 1.0b6

• Preference pane moved to the end
• Minor update checking fixes

Version 1.0b5

• Search results scoring system fully rewritten and refined
• Category names now visible next to symbols
• Implementation files and symbols in them score higher now
• Support for opening external files in “All-In-One” mode
• Fixed bug causing recent files to seem empty
• Fixed bug causing serial number to be lost

Version 1.0b4

• Browsing contents of Groups, .xibs, Categories and Classes
• XIB files now appear in search
• Window flickering bug fixed
• Initial setup of key binding fixed
• Subprojects support enhanced – differentiating symbols and files among subprojects

Version 1.0b3

• Searching in subprojects introduced
• Installer fixes
• Window hiding bug fixed
• Releasing C structures and pointers properly

Find out more about Code Pilot and give it a try!

Visit Code Pilot’s website for more detailed description and a short screencast.

This is how ours look like:

Cards

We’re from Warsaw, the capital city of Poland (which, contrary to popular beliefs does not share a common border with Switzerland).

We’ve come a long way; from our first idea for a Mac application, through the founding of this company to turning into an international Mac software vendor.

We’ve already known each other for a few years; Wojtek and Zbigniew were doing some part-time web projects earlier together, and later they met Daniel during one of the first Bootstrap events (Bootstrap events are monthly meetings organised by people with all kinds of creative ideas, from wannabe-entrepreneurs, through people who already had the execution phase behind them (successful or not), ending with profitable business owners). When we were starting this Mac thing, two of us still worked full-time, and Daniel was busy running his own web application (an online survey platform).

In late 2008 we came up with a specific idea. Perhaps it wasn’t a particularly thrilling one, but we’ve decided to create an invoicing application for the Mac (yeah, we know – boring). We had a few reasons for this:

1. We were Mac users. We kind of liked it, you know. Although we don’t usually dress like that.
2. We’ve noticed a rapidly increasing number of freelancers – designers, programmers, even lawyers –  who have been switching to Macs.
3. There were no native Mac invoicing applications, which  would comply with Polish tax and financial regulations, and the alternatives were cumbersome: Numbers/Excel sheets, FileMaker runtime applications, invoicing with Windows software under Parallels/VMWare.
4. Last, but not least, as developers, we always wanted to create a Mac application and this idea seemed like a good test of our skills.

We worked pretty hard for seven months, discovering Cocoa APIs, performing a lot of R&D and going through a continuous hell that was the attempt of combining our day jobs with our dream jobs. At some point, we’ve decided to verify our assumptions and perform a reality check, so we decided to give about a hundred potential future users access to the alpha, and then to a few beta versions. They liked it, and we listened to the feedback until there was nothing left to do except for releasing the final product.

Fast-forward to May 2009. Maktura 1.0 was ready (a not-so-witty pun on the Polish word for invoice, “faktura”). It met with enthusiastic response from Polish users, we received massive amounts of positive feedback and sales were good. We’ve passed the exam and we’ve had a lot of fun along.

We could finish this story at this point, but we had this crazy idea of continuing our work. Admiring the efforts of such successful Mac software vendors like OmniGroup or Panic, we’ve decided to establish our own company. A few months later, we’ve managed to find a great place for our office (you can find the pics on our Facebook profile) and Macoscope was officially launched with us on board.

During the following months, we’ve released few updates to our invoicing app (the current version is 1.2.5), got involved in some iPhone projects and plotted to conquer the world.

So, that’s the context; and here we are, with a new product, which is nearly ready-to-ship. We think you will find it interesting.

One of us, Zbigniew, is going to NSConference 2010 (Europe). If you would like to meet him, drop him an email or check out his Twitter feed.