Edge Cases 33: Flattry Will Get You Everywhere

Wolf Rentzsch along with Andrew Pontious uses the Swedish micropayment service Flattr as an excuse to talk about inter-application communication yet again as well as introduce Compliment, his app to make it easier for other apps to integrate with Flattr.

Links:

• Bert and Ernie « Wikipedia
• TaskPaper - Simple to-do list software for Mac & iPhone
• OmniFocus « The Omni Group
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: ““FU Chad Sellers” in my notes for upcoming @edgecasesshow episode. I keep on looking at it and wondering “why am I so angry at @c_had?””
• Pear Note for Mac « Useful Fruit Software
• Neutral - A Casual Car Show from People Who Should Know Better Than to Do a Car Show
• Flattr « Wikipedia
• Christian Kienle tweet: “@rentzsch You should add a flag to mogenerator that sends you $x every time it is executed automatically via PayPal when set.”
• Core Data Editor - A developer’s best friend « Christian Kienle
• Compliment.app: automatically donate to the Mac apps you use everyday
• kballard/NotificationWatcher « GitHub
• Growl - The Ultimate Notification System for OS X
• Mark Munz tweet: “@danielpunkass @rentzsch @radian If you control both apps, there’s a cheat. Use a private NSPasteboard to store payload, send DN w/o payload”
• Daniel Jalkut tweet: “@mmunz @rentzsch @radian Wow! That’s some serious PasteboardRPC :) Not exactly relevant to my problem scenario tho (https://devforums.apple.com/message/756974)”
• Instacast 3 - The Next Generation « Vemedio
• rentzsch/markdownlive « GitHub
• Dan Schmidt tweet: “Dreamt last night that I was a screenwriter for a blockbuster action movie. I had just come up with my hero’s name: Flattery Amtrak.”
• Dan Schmidt tweet: “The tagline was THIS SUMMER, FLATTERY WILL GET YOU EVERYWHERE”

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Flattr and Compliment
• A Little Foreshadowing
• That’s Recursive Enough for Me, Let’s Pop the Stack
• FU, Chad Sellers! FU!
• Siracusa as the Podfather
• A Way to Index Audio
• I’m Totally a Car Guy
• I Don’t Know If I Should Still Put the Mac in There
• The Great Vowel Shortage of the Late 2009s
• Euros, Because They’re Swedish
• Flattrific
• That Sounds Like Growling Pains
• I’m Trying to Think of How iCloud Would Fit into That
• Pasteboard-RPC
• That’s Like Holding Back Humanity
• There’s Only So Many Developers