GlobeTrotter is a new iPhone app for everyone who frequently has to work with or depends on people in different timezones. It offers easy and quick timezone calculations. Without hassle, without calculation errors. Set up unlimited timezones and see how they relate to each other:

For everyone who finds himself calculating timezone differences ever so often because the built-in iPhone app doesn’t cut it, Globetrotter is the perfect, solution. Guaranteed.

Find out more about GlobeTrotter for iPhone or iPod Touch

Back in 2005, when StyleMac started, we had high expectations. We wanted to create a Weblog that was primary based on the topics of Apple / Mac OS X, Design and Software Development / Unix. Touching all subjects that someone interested in creative work might find interesting. As StyleMac started to grow, however, it became ever more clear, that continuing on said ideals was impossible next to a day-job as StyleMac has always just been a evening project. And since the Site couldn’t hardly pay our rent, we decided to cut the time we spent in the site. From that point onward, StyleMac has seen ups and downs – mostly downs. With little content having been added since the inital first 5 months.
Now, almost 4 years after going life, StyleMac will change. Instead of trying to offer news on above topics, it will lead as the hub for all the Mac and iPhone applications we developed over the years. So the StyleMac News Blog will transform into StyleMac – Joyful Apple Software.
In addition to that, there’ll be interesting tidbits on Cocoa, Apple, Unix or Software Development. But always only then, if we encounter it in one of our projects.
Wrapping it all up: StyleMac is Dead, long live StyleMac. From now on this site will function as the information hub for our Software Developments. And since we needed something to celebrate this event, we rewrote our Safarilicious Software from the ground up, and released it just as well today:

Safarilicious 1.0
Rewritten from the ground up, universal binary, Leopard compatible, way better UI and lots of new features. Enjoy!

And a major update for OweMe is also in the works.

PS: You’ll notice that the links for our products will lead to subdomains of www.terhech.de. That’s an unfortunate side-effect of the previous state of the old StyleMac but will be resolved soon.

Thanks for your patience,
Benedikt Terhechte

Back in March last year, when the first version of the iPhone SDK beta appeared, I downloaded it, installed it, and hid myself in my room for a whole weekend in order to dig into it. Back then it wasn’t possible to applications test on the iPhone itself (except for those lucky few, who were allowed to join the Developer Program), and given the reports of differences between the real device and the simulator I decided against continuing iPhone development until I could test on the device itself.
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The NY Times is reporting that Steve’s rumoured health issues seem to be more complex than initialy thought. Thus Steve will take a time out until June in order to treat the ‘hormon imbalance’.
Let’s hope that we’ll see a healthy and fit Steve Jobs at this years WWDC.

via the New York Times

Last year Nokia aquired the Norwegian company ‘Trolltech’ in order to gain access to their very popular cross plattform framework ‘Qt’. Qt builds the foundation for the KDE desktop and has been able to gain a lot of very attractive developer features over the years. Just recently they added a strong graphical framework which comes in many ways very close to CoreAnimation (or rather the CALayer technology sans the animation features). One strong argument for Qt are the cross plattform possibilities. Qt works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and several mobile devices which makes it very, very interesting for developers toying with the idea of cross plattform development.

One severe problem has always been the restrictive Qt license. One could develop for free, as long as the resulting application was going to be released as open source. As soon as one would develop a commercial application, one had to buy a rather expensive (especially for indy developers) license.

Long story short: Nokia just released Qt under the LGPL license which means that one can build commercial applications using Qt, without having to buy said expensive licenses.
This would allow many a developer to start developing his new application cross plattform instead of focusing on just one plattform. All in all, this could result in a greater variety of new Mac OS X compatible applications, as the usage of Qt for a Windows application would automatically result in Mac and Linux versions as well.