I gave a Masterclass on Swift at the NCSS Summer School 2017 in Sydney on 8th January 2017. This post contains useful links for use during and after my class.

I am looking for beta testers for my latest Mac app: Work . Work is a project organizer app for developers, designers, students or any professional who works with multiple projects involving files & folders, web pages, email addresses and lists of tasks. Click the link above for more information and help for getting started. Work requires macOS 10.12 or OS X 10.11. If you would like to test this app, please contact me , giving details of your Mac and operating system.

A quick update to Man Reader to version 1.8 is now available through the Mac App Store . The main reason for this version was that Man Reader was not previously detecting man pages installed by third-party IDEs in the Applications folder. There was also an issue with Man Reader failing to display the text of the previously selected man page on app launch. More complete search for man pages, including in third-party IDEs.

Man Reader has just been updated to version 1.7 and is available through the Mac App Store . The main reason for this update was to make the app work well with macOS Sierra, as I found that version 1.6 was sometimes crashing on launch. While doing this, the update was rejected by the App Store reviewers because it crashed on OS X 10.10. Since I no longer have a Mac running 10.

I have recently started what I hope will be a weekly podcast with my friend and colleague, Jerry Daniels . Each podcast will be about 30 minutes in length. We will discuss Macs, iPhones, iPads, macOS, iOS, programming and anything tech-related that we find interesting. I hope you will find it entertaining and informative, so please join us. We are using ZCast which has an iPhone app that makes it super easy to get together and record our chats.

Dice Pass 1.1 is now available from the Mac App Store . What does Dice Pass do? # Dice Pass is a utility to app to generate random passphrases based on the Diceware system. Diceware uses a table of pre-defined words, each assigned a 5 digit code number containing the digits 1 to 6. The official way to generate a phrase is to roll 5 dice for each word you want in your passphrase and then consult the words table to find the matching word.

Icon Builder is a Mac app that takes a single image file and creates all the different image sizes that you need to make a set of icons for your app: Mac, iPhone, iPad, iOS Universal or Apple Watch. Version 4, released 16 September 2016 is available through the Mac App Store . What’s New in Version 4: # Added support for iMessage apps and Sticker Pack apps. Added support for creating Mac .

With the release of iOS 10 and the need to update iOS apps to suit, I have decided it is time to retire some of my lesser-performing apps as it is not worth the effort required to maintain them. At the moment, the following iOS apps are no longer available: A Knight’s Move Dice Pass Pic-a-POD Quick Score - Tennis For the first three listed there, the Mac versions are still available:

Man Reader has been updated to version 1.6 with the permissions needed for finding all available man pages and a fix for search terms being over-written after a background update. Man Reader 1.6 is now available through the Mac App Store . Change Log: # Permissions fix when searching for available man pages. Fixed error with new search term being over-written. Sand-boxed version now works just as well as the non-sand-boxed so please switch back to this version.

I recently got an email from someone who had purchased Dice Pass for Mac from the Mac App Store but had been unable to get it to run. This person was using OS X 10.9.3. I checked the App Store specifications and it showed that 10.9 was the minimum system requirement, so it should have worked. But going back to my Xcode project, I found that it was set to a minimum of OS X 10.