Hindsight Labs

Announcing Packing Pal for iPhone

Steven Wei — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:30:05 +0000

I am excited to announce the release of a brand new app: Packing Pal for iPhone. What is it? Packing Pal is an iPhone app that helps you pack for trips. It allows travelers to create customized packing lists containing every item you need to pack, ensuring that nothing is mistakenly left behind. It comes...

Paprika bookmarklet lets you capture recipes from your browser!

Steven Wei — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:29:55 +0000

We’ve got a really cool new update for you guys! With past versions of Paprika, in order to capture a recipe from a website, you needed to be using Paprika’s built in web browser. That works alright, but if you’re like me, you’re often using your regular web browser when you come across a recipe...

Porting Paprika from iOS to Mac: a technical retrospective

Steven Wei — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:51:48 +0000

Last month we managed to finally ship Paprika for Mac and I figured now would be a good time to share our experiences porting an app from the iOS platform to the Mac platform. It took way longer than we expected They always say this about software timelines and estimates, but we figured we had...

Mac App Store: Race to the bottom? Not even close.

Steven Wei — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:58:29 +0000

When the Mac App Store was first announced, pundits worldwide declared that the sky would fall, Mac app prices would race to the bottom, and that Mac developers were doomed. Now that we’re 9 months in, let’s take a look at some of the Mac App Store’s most successful (or at least top grossing) apps...

Why Dropbox is not a feasible cloud sync solution for Paprika Recipe Manager

Steven Wei — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:00:19 +0000

Ever since we launched Paprika Cloud Sync last December (a service that automatically keeps your recipes, grocery lists, and meals synced between the iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions of Paprika), people have been asking us why we decided to build our own sync solution instead of simply using Dropbox1. We actually did initially consider basing...

Paprika reaches No. 1 in Lifestyle on the Mac App Store

Steven Wei — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:09:34 +0000

It has been about two weeks since we released Paprika for Mac. We had a great launch week, and were featured by Apple in the New and Noteworthy section of the Mac App Store the following week. During that time I am very happy to say that Paprika made it to the number one spot...

Paprika Recipe Manager is now available for Mac OS X Lion

Steven Wei — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:47:29 +0000

After many months of hard work, I am very happy to announce the release of Paprika Recipe Manager for Mac OS X Lion. This release brings all of the same great features of the iPad version to your desktop, making it even easier to edit and manage your recipe collection. Coinciding with the Mac...

Paprika Website Redesigned!

Steven Wei — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:28:03 +0000

Hi folks! We’ve just redesigned and relaunched Paprika’s main website. We put the original site up during Paprika for iPad’s original launch in September of last year, but have been so busy working on Paprika itself that we haven’t had time to update the site. This meant that the screenshots and feature lists on the...

Reading and writing zip files on the iPhone

Steven Wei — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:11:44 +0000

I’ve looked through a number of zip file libraries on iOS, and I would recommend using Objective-Zip. It wraps ZLib and MiniZip with a fairly intuitive Objective-C interface, and provides some nice functionality like being able to easily access the metadata for each file in the archive. Using it is pretty straightforward, just grab the...

How to extract a subdirectory of an existing Git repository into its own Git repository

Steven Wei — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:25:46 +0000

I ran into this problem recently so I figured I would post a step by step solution. Say you have a project stored in Git with three subdirectories like this: project/ .git/ folder1/ folder2/ folder3/ And you want to extract the contents of folder3 into its own Git repository, like this: project/ .git/ folder1/ folder2/...