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Google Wave Lives On (in a Box) [Google Wave]
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Google has announced that despite Wave's demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it. More »


FreeApps Bundles Popular Free Applications for Easy Downloading [Downloads]
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Collecting and installing all your favorite apps is usually the most tedious part of a fresh OS installation. FreeApps makes bulk installation of popular free and open-source applications a snap. More »


Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads [Downloads]
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great. More »


Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads [Downloads]
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Looking to beef up your Mac with a few great—and free—apps that cover a whole lot of your productivity and computing needs? Our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac rounds up the best free downloads for OS X. More »


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Gradient Buttons Yet Again
Friday, May 21st, 2010
I added two more button styles to the iPhone Gradient Buttons project and made stroke color and stroke weight configurable options. The two new styles look exactly like the old Black and White style, only the highlight state is a blue gradient. These simulate the style used in alert sheets in several Apple applications.

Some of the Core Graphics code was machine-generated and is in kind of rough shape, but it works. I'm thinking about refactoring the different styles methods into something shorter, perhaps a plist, or just C arrays with the different numeric values.
For some strange reason, when I try to use arrayWithObjects: instead of creating a mutable array and manually adding the colors one at a time, I get a NULL gradient back. I have no idea why, but it's working this way at least.
Anyone who wants to contribute, let me know, I'd be happy to add committers.
©2008-2010 Jeff LaMarche.
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com

Some of the Core Graphics code was machine-generated and is in kind of rough shape, but it works. I'm thinking about refactoring the different styles methods into something shorter, perhaps a plist, or just C arrays with the different numeric values.
For some strange reason, when I try to use arrayWithObjects: instead of creating a mutable array and manually adding the colors one at a time, I get a NULL gradient back. I have no idea why, but it's working this way at least.
Anyone who wants to contribute, let me know, I'd be happy to add committers.
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com