Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Cheetah3D

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    Cheetah3D recently released version 6 of it’s impressive 3D app. First off, to those who are not aware of Cheetah3D, let me give a little synopsis of the app. It’s a lightweight 3D modelling and animation tool, built for Mac OS X, with a Javascript scripting API to create tools and workflows. You can purchase…

  • Thoughts on the Mac App store…

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    So I recently made some purchases through Apple’s Mac App store. Overall I think it’s a good system, particularly for those developers without strong marketing and distribution channels. The net benefit for the world is positive, although I wouldn’t want app stores like this to be the only way of buying and distributing software. Here’s…

  • Room for improvement

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    As any commercial software developer will tell you, releases revolve around features, bug fixes, and need for income. The company needs to balance new features (which will make the product sell better to a larger audience), fixing bugs (which helps keep the existing user base happy) and the need for income (the company/developers need to…