Joachim Fornallaz

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SiteCapture v1.2.1 Released

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

I just released SiteCapture v1.2.1 which has following changes: 64bit support on Intel Macs Feature to reveal the destination folder in the Finder Enhanced image quality for PDF thumbnails SiteCapture now requires Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. Grab it at www.sitecapture.net.

Introducing WebKitTool

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

WebKitTool is a simple command line tool using Apple’s WebKit framework for converting web pages to PDF- or image files. When creating PDFs, you can either create one page containing the whole web page or multiple pages, landscape or portrait. Examples Creating a single page PDF of www.google.com: ./WebKitTool www.google.com google.pdf Creating a multipage PDF of [...]

Introducing PDFKitTool

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

PDFKitTool is a simple command line interface to Apple’s PDF Kit framework. With it, you can manipulate PDF documents. It can combine several documents into one or burst multipage documents into multiple single-paged documents. Examples Combining multiple documents and storing the result to disk: ./PDFKitTool load one.pdf load two.pdf cat output combined.pdf Bursting a multipage [...]

RedLaser Barcode Scanner

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

It’s just astonishing that the RedLaser app can recognize barcodes using every iPhone, even the old models (original iPhone and iPhone 3G) which have no autofocus camera and produce blurry images like this one: I’m surprised the app was accepted in the App Store – it obviously accesses the live video feed for which there [...]

SiteCapture 1.2 Released

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

I just released SiteCapture v1.2 and made it Freeware! New features include: Full-size captures now contain the full height of a page. When multiple URLs only differ in their query string, the file names of the images won’t collide anymore. Grab it at www.sitecapture.net.

Adobe AIR Pollutes the Keychain

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Why does every Adobe AIR application need a separate Keychain? I don’t understand.

Android Detail Bashing, Part 1

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

What happens when you connect the charger after the “Please connect charger” message appears? Nothing.

Big StopWatch

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

The iPhone App Big StopWatch just got updated to version 2. Although I don’t understand much of the release notes, the App itself has an english translation. Most of the new features are  visible after changing the settings. I’m wondering if it would have been better to get the orientation from the sensors instead of [...]

Twidroid – The first Android app I like

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Why? It has visible (discoverable) toolbar buttons and doesn’t use the Menu button: I hate the Menu button on Android phones, the hidden buttons are so not intuitive.

iWork – On a Diet

Monday, February 2nd, 2009