Bryan Goldstein's Blog

My Mac Projects

2008-04-23T10:38:00.000-07:00

At this point it is looking like I will never get the chance to fix up all of my mac projects like Gwidget or Wcode. I would be happy to pass either of them on to anyone willing to pick up where I left off. Drop me an email if your interested, my only condition is that previous Wcode customers get free updates.

Delay in Wcode/Disappear/Gwidget updates and fixes

2007-11-02T17:19:00.000-07:00

It may be clear to anyone looking for a working version of Gwidget, or a more Leopard friendly version of Wcode that I haven't had a chance to update any of my software. I have been very busy lately with other things like school work. I also am currently unable to update my website at http://bryan.iindigo3d.com because of ftp problems. This doesn't mean that I am done developing my software, it just means that I am waiting until at least second semester to get my own hosting and start all my projects back up. I also have some pretty good ideas for future killer apps, so hang in there. For those of you that need support, or just have questions/suggestions about future versions of my software, feel free to email me.

Update: I no longer have a need to find hosting, because I have found all I need for free. This blogger page, combined with google pages, is now my new website.

Gwidget 1.1 Released

2007-05-06T20:37:00.000-07:00

I just posted a minor update of Gwidget, there is but one, very handy difference in this new version. The difference is that this version gives you the ability to select and copy text. There are some small changes in links on the back also but nothing that is very noticable.

More Info | Download

New Home For My Software

2007-05-05T15:09:00.000-07:00

I have finally created a new web site after the web site that widgetfactor.com, the web site for wcode, which I had been paying someone an overly large ammount to create and host, has disappeared and took the site down with him. The person I was paying's boss at Lexink took the domain for his own site without any response when I emailed him about posibly aquireing the domain from him.

After being severely ripped off like that, I have recoved with a basic web site of my own. I will begin searching for my own domain and hosting but in the mean time, it is kindly being hosted by John Wells at http://bryan.iindigo3d.com. This means the the very new very fresh integration of sparkle into Wcode will unfortuately not be able to automatically update the next version of Wcode.

Gwidget 1.0 Is HERE!

2007-04-23T17:40:00.000-07:00

I am proud to announce the immediate availability of Gwidget 1.0. It now uses Skweezer instead of Google mobile. As a result, the search results are much neater. Features such as Google Calculator, Google Dictionary, and Google Spellcheck now work flawlessly. When you click on the results now the page loading is generally much faster and adds a page loading indicator so you will know if the page is loading or Gwidget is just not working. All of the colors are the same and the news and image search options were removed in order to put more focus on the web searching. Don't take my word for it, try it yourself and see why I am so excited about it!

Download Gwidget 1.0 Now!

Please leave a comment if you have questions, suggestions, compliments, or criticism.

Gwidget+Wcode Progress

2007-04-12T17:46:00.000-07:00

Gwidget:

The other day I worked on Gwidget. I changed the method of getting pages and results from Google mobile to skweezer and the regular Google search. The search results are now much more presentable. Opening pages in Gwidget is also much faster now, and when you do open the page it is not split into sections on multiple pages like it was before so it is much more compatible with the widget. The other advantage this setup gives besides improved speed and reliability, is the ability for me to set up support for Google dictionary, calculator, and other similar search services. With that, I also removed the image and news search in favor of spending more time on the regular web search. I would consider reviving them later on if I get enough requests for it. I will be releasing it as soon as I get a chance to brush it up a bit.

Wcode:

Yesterday a friend sent me a class to add some syntax coloring. I tried it out in Wcode and I thought it was fantastic. In addition to line numbering, it colors the html tags and the html comments and only has some minor faults to overcome. I also wanted it to color quotes, javascript, and css. Coloring quotes was a nearly impossible task since a bug in the NSScanner class does not allow searching of the same character twice in a row with one scanner. I stayed up until two in the morning writing an extremely complicated work around for this bug. So now the quotes are colored and I will be working on adding and improving more syntax coloring. Once I complete my work with syntax coloring I hope to make a system to manage indenting. You can probably expect another release when that is done.

Please leave a comment if you have questions, suggestions, compliments, or criticism.

Plans for Gwidget

2006-12-18T15:11:00.000-08:00

I enjoy working on Gwidget a lot and I have tons of things I would like to add to it when I have time. I would like to change gwidget to get it's results from google.com instead of google's mobile web. This way a bunch more of google's search features will work. Another thing that would allow you to do is make all of the customizations that google allows like changing the number of results per page. The next thing I want to do is have clicked results open with skweeze.com instead of google's mobile web. This would eliminate having the displayed page on multiple pages instead of just one. After that there are a whole bunch of things I could think of doing. I got requests for country specific searches, I will look into that. I will also try and fix gwidget so it works as well in foreign languages as it does in english, but I don't know how hard that will be. Any way, I can't say if I will have time to do all this, but keep watching for updates.

Gwidget 0.5 (Now 0.5.1)

2006-12-09T17:59:00.000-08:00

Click here to download

The the most frequent request for Gwidget is for it to be resizable. Well now, after about twelve hours of non-stop working, you can finally resize Gwidget. I also added a white color scheme option because someone wanted it to look more like googles' widgets. You may also notice other small changes. Also, If you want to show your support for Gwidget you can donate however much you feel it's worth.

I have also released version 0.5.1 which is just a bug fix for a pretty big problem that occurs for people who have not used any version of Gwidget before version 0.5.

Gwidget 0.2

2006-12-03T13:01:00.000-08:00

I just released Gwidget 0.2. The major difference is that there are now four colors to pick from. Other small changes have been made that you may or may not notice. Click here to download it now.

Gwidget 0.1 Released!

2006-11-26T17:54:00.000-08:00

My first widget, Gwidget (jee' wid jet), was just released. It is unlike any of the other search widgets currently up for grabs. It searches google and displays the results right on your dashboard. Also, unless you select the option not to, it displays the website you click on right in the widget. Try it out. Leave a comment and tell me what you think about it, also tell me what you think I should add.

Click here to download it.

Wcode 2.0 Released!!!!!!!

2006-11-20T10:56:00.000-08:00

Download Wcode 2.0 Here

Wcode 2.0 version was released last night somewhere close to 2am. It is the result of hours and hours and hours of hard work. Although it is rewritten from scratch, some of the noticeable features are the new template system that allows anyone who wishes to easily create and share their own templates for Wcode. Another noticeable feature is the built in widget preview, this allows you to get your layout straight with out going back and forth to dashboard a million times. Another feature you will notice is a remade info.plist editor. This is a new full featured design that gives you every option available for creating your info.plist file. Also, when you start typing in the search field, you will notice a big difference. Instead of just searching the file you have open, it searches all of the files you have opened and the titles of all the files you have not yet opened. You will also notice the improved design and stability. In addition to that their are many things you will not notice right of the bat, but it is all new, completely remade. Do yourself a favor and download a copy, you'll love it!

Wcode 2.0 getting closer

2006-10-22T19:17:00.000-07:00

I accomplished a lot this weekend in terms of Wcode. I created the info.plist editor and it is a hundred times cooler than the last one. I also worked out a few bugs and worked on making this release perfect. Also Jeremy and I have started working on converting the templates, we have the search widget template done and the default plain template done. The rest should be done within one or two weeks. After that, all that is left to do is code the registration system in and it's done! Also, the people that created the code that is used in the rss template do not want us releasing it with our program, so it will be available for download seperately and all that you will have to do is open in, and it will be installed into wcode. But if anyone at all is interested in making a template before the release of Wcode 2.0 please contact me. Wcode is going to need good templates in order to have a fighting chance against dashcode, apple's version of my program. Alse, feel free to make comments, I will try to answer them all.

Wcode 2.0 Questions

2006-10-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

OK, a lot of you are probably have a few of the same questions about wcode 2.0. Widgets in leopard, as far as I am aware of are the same as widgets in tiger. Second, the 2.0 release will be a universal binary. The last question everyone is probably wondering is why the heck is this thing taking so long. The answer to that question is that while this version is almost complete, I have not yet created the templates. If you've read my blog you know the templates are now just files instead of code that is built into the program. So while the template system works for the default blank template, I have not had any time to port the other templates. The last thing I have not done yet that I would like to do is create an interface for the info.plist file. This is available in the current wcode but I would like to improve it.

If you are interested in making a template that you would like to have posted with the release of Wcode 2.0, email me at brysgo at gmail d0t ç0m and i will try and help you to make a template.

Accepting Google Checkout as well as paypal for wcode.

2006-10-09T13:00:00.000-07:00

Now in addition to accepting purchases via paypal I will also accept purchases with Google Checkout. Here here is the new button.

Wcode 2.0 Coming Soon

2006-05-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

I have been working very hard for the last couple of weeks to bring you Wcode 2.0. Wcode 2.0 is a complete rewrite of wcode, the design is simmilar but the code is rewriten from scratch.

Some new features:
- There is a new template system uses template files so anyone who wants can create and share their own templates.
- The preview feature now runs the widget in wcode. It is not a substitute for the build and run button but it is definetly better than previewing in Safari.
- The search bar is also improved. It searches every file you've opened and all imediate files in the widget's titles. The search doesn't make it through folders unless you have opened a file the when you search the folder that file is in will not be filtered out.
- there is also an huge increase in overall performance

I hope everone else is as excited about it as I am.

What is this blog about?

2006-05-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

I just decided I am going to use this blog. It will be about whatever I decide to post on it, mainly about my software and macintosh stuff but also other random things.