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Launchpad-Control 1.63

Andreas Ganske — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:17:25 +0000

Launchpad-Control has been updated to v1.63 including bug fixes and a requested feature:

Sorting all items across all pages from A-Z

So if you press this button now, Launchpad-Control will take all your apps and groups, order them alphabetically and fill your pages with them.

There is a small bug in v1.62 that caused Launchpad-Control to not be able to update itself to v1.63 correctly. I hope this bug is fixed now and I hope you found the way to update it manually.

I also removed the twitter button because it was really unnecessary.

And here it is:

Launchpad-Control 1.61 – Surprise!

Andreas Ganske — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:07:09 +0000

Hey folks,

I just released v1.61 of Launchpad-Control. There are just small changes:

Fixed a bug that caused Launchpad-Control to crash while creating a backup Added Italian localization Changed the reset method to get better working results when resetting the database

Download Launchpad-Control v1.63 (updated) now. It’s free!

Mac OS X Lion/Mountain Lion – 327 KB – v1.63

And now a little…

Surprise

Launchpad-Control is now available on GitHub. You can now build upon my work and contribute to it more easily.

Please feel free to add features and fix bugs. Just do a pull request and I will try to update Launchpad-Control as soon as possible.

New tool: Skype-Control!

Andreas Ganske — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:29:01 +0000

You are using Skype and your friend or someone else logged in and now you have his username in the login window and can’t remove or hide it? Well…
There’s an app for that: Skype-Control!
You can easily control now which login names will show up in skype… Check it out now!…

Super offer – Geolaria now 0.99$!

Andreas Ganske — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:07:27 +0000

Geolaria is on sale for 99 Cents! (0.99$) in the Mac App Store! This offer is only available a few days, so get it now!

So use the opportunity, tell your friends about the campaign and have fun!

Visit the App Store »

Thanks to all!

Andreas Ganske — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:55:35 +0000

With the release of Launchpad-Control v1.2 it is now time to look back and thank you all!

As I’ve published Launchpad-Control 3 weeks ago, I never thought that so many people have the same problem as me. Till now Launchpad-Control has been downloaded over 60,000 times! An incredible number.

The number of visitors exploded and all this at a time when I certainly was not in the country. Shortly after the publication, I spent 14 days in Norway - without Internet and telephone.

When I came back I saw what I had missed:
It seems as if my site has never been visited before launchpad Control. Well, I’ll admit, it wasn’t really. :P (“Besuche” = visitors)

A big thanks to you for your comments, suggestions, help and donations!
Thank you for spreading the word over blogs and social networks!

A special thanks goes to @TheJTizzle for the new icon that he made for Launchpad Control. The old one was really terrible.

Greetings
Andreas

PS: I hope you like the new version!

Launchpad-Control – Update #1

Andreas Ganske — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:46:10 +0000

Already upgraded to Mac OS X Lion? Yes? Well then you certainly know Launchpad, the “home for your apps” like Apple says.

A huge disadvantage of the Launchpad is that every app that is located in your /Applications folder is shown. That means you will see little helper programs like uninstallers or updaters. These apps can’t be hidden easily from Launchpad because there are no such preferences.

Therefore I developed:

Launchpad-Control

Launchpad-Control is a small tool which allows you to easily hide/unhide apps (and groups) from launchpad in Mac OS X Lion.

Update #1: This tool is now a system preference pane! No need to have an additional app on your mac. Once you open the file it “installs” itself into the system preferences where it can be found under “Launchpad”. Isn’t that great?

This app is my first Cocoa project. Great thing that developing native apps for iOS really teach you how to develop for Mac OS X, too.

Please feel free to distribute and talk about this app on blogs, twitter or websites. I would really appreciate that.

Features

It’s a system preference pane (update #1)
Displays a table with all apps that are in Launchpad
Checkboxes for every app allow you to easily specify apps you want to hide or show
Backups/Restores your original database file
It’s completely free!

Download

Download Launchpad-Control now. It’s free!

Mac OS X Lion only (makes sense, huh?! ) – 211 KB

Screenshot

Donate

If you want to support me and my work donate some money.

This little button here will take you to Paypal where you can donate as much, or as little as you want.

Update 1.3

Andreas Ganske — Mon, 16 May 2011 23:54:07 +0000

Now the bug that caused the Geoms to stop or delay spawning is really fixed. Another bug was found by Xeres – the experience bar didn’t display the right values. This is fixed now. Additionally I fixed a graphics bug at the scroll bars of the high scores.
If there is a new version of Geolaria available there will be a note in the main menu of the game.

You see, development keeps going on. Apple will release the version 1.3 of Geolaria this day. Desura is fed since some days with the newest version and my website is now updated, too.

Update 1.2

Andreas Ganske — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:33:36 +0000

And again – a new version of Geolaria has just been released. The Mac App Store haven’t catched v1.1 yet, so it will be skipped there. Hopefully they review it soon.

Version 1.2:

The last planet “Allasur” couldn’t be started. The game just crashed. Should be fixed now.
A small version number has been added behind the title “Geolaria” ingame so you can see which version you have.

» To the download page «

Please update soon and tell all your friends about Geolaria! Please test the facebook button ingame – I hope it works!

Update 1.1

Andreas Ganske — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:15:30 +0000

Just released version 1.1 of Geolaria!
Hopefully the Mac App Store and Desura will update them soon.
The demo you can download on this site is already updatet!

* Fixed the bug where the Geoms stopped spawning.
* Fixed the tutorial now.
* Created a new .zip-File for Windows (there were some problems with it)

Level selection (Design)

Andreas Ganske — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:06:35 +0000

Today I was thinking about my next game aNemy and it’s campaign mode. Like almost any other video game in the world mine would need a good one, too.

The question that came up in my mind was “How could I display this mode?”. What should the level selection screen be like to have a good mix of clarity, usability and style. Because I am not the first one who puts this question I searched the web for blogs like mine posting an article about designing a level selection screen.

I couldn’t find any.

So I grabbed the chance to be the first.