A detailed (actually even a brief) look at the field of Twitter clients for different systems leads to an interesting observation: There’re not only more but especially far better Twitter clients available for iPhone than for any other device. Take Tweetsville or Tweetie as the dominant examples. They’re a joy to use, offer great functionality and one can just feel the attention to detail and thought gone into their development.
A look at Mac OS X or Windows, on the other hand, reveals just mediocre clients which lack a lot of functions I’d take for granted, given the size of the userbase and importance of Twitter.
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Google offers a potpourri of source code snippets from their varying Mac projects qua Google Objective-C Toolbox.
The Box contains Mac and iPhone compatible sources and offers several additions to Foundation and Appkit as well as new classes to aid in integrating Google services. In brief:
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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

Many developers often face the tedious task of collecting difficult or complex code sequences in some sort of library or list. Most development environments already feature the one or other snippet function to allow for including this task into the workflow. This doesn’t work out though if you work with several programs or even do things via ssh in VI or Emacs on remote systems.
Enter Code Collector: An application focused on the sole task of collecting, keeping and sorting your snippets, functions or code sequences. It nicely integrates into OS X to help in collecting code from different applications as well as inserting it:

Code Collector Pro looks after all your code snippets, letting you quickly reference them whenever you want. With support for Smart Groups, Tagging, TextMate Bundles and much more Code Collector Pro is the best way to store, organise and share code snippets on the Mac

Find the App here