Release notes for PixAM 2.3:
- Russian localization added
- Bug fixes for dual monitor support
- Bug fixes for sharing images
- Small bug and memory leak fixes

- Application correctly displays icons for your macs in clients section
- Application shows more information on working progress
- Application will index your files two times faster
- Fixed number of memory leaks
- Fixed bug with toolbar icons
- Fixed bug with authentication window
- Fixed bug with offline authentication
- Fixed bug with aborting syncing session
- Fixed bug with session timeout
- Fixed bug with updating syncing dates for clients
- Fixed bug with syncing and updating зreferences
- Fixed bug then synchronization session was starting multiple times
- Fixed bug with updating account creation date
- Fixed bug with authentication
- Fixed bug with syncing renamed files
- IPv6 full support

Release notes for PixAM 2.1:
- New simplified User Interface.
- Dual-monitor Support.
- Preferences for sharing and saving images.
- Shared Images history.
- Blur instrument has been replaced with a fill rectangle instrument.
- Many bug fixes and improvements.

Important changes:
- Initial files indexing is much faster

- Fixed bug what was causing application crash on Snow Leopard running on old Macs
- Fixed issue on syncing new files

- Fixed issue on syncing hidden files

- Fixed issue on syncing removed files

- Fixed issue on syncing changes on Snow Leopard

- Fixed issue on syncing changes on Lion

- Application will no longer try to sync temporary system files

You don’t need any special knowledge to start learning how to make an iPhone app. Moreover you don’t need any trainings or courses. They might help you but they are are not essential for making good iPhone app.

At first get a Mac if you don’t have it. Then you will need to get an XCode toolset. It includes the Xcode IDE, iOS Simulator and all required tools and frameworks for building iPhone apps. You will spend most of your time using the Xcode.

You don’t need a developer account at least for the first few months but it might help you because you will get access to important learning resources like WWDC videos. You will need a developer account when you will be ready to test your app on a real iPhone.

Now it’s a right time to start asking Google how to make an iPhone app. Pickup the first tutorial, follow the instructions and there is your first iPhone app up and running.

Interesting? That’s just a beginning. There are many ways where to go from this basic application. You can learn how to make a simle table view application, or you can learn how to display data on few separate screens with navigation between them like on most iPhone apps. Or you might want to create a simple tab bar application.

You can learn how to show an alert to tell your user about any changes in your app or how to show a reminder about an event.

There are many things what you can do for you app and Google will help you to find answers. There are all the answers for your questions.

You start asking Google questions which lead you to all sorts of resources like Stack Overflow (that’s my favorite) and a million blogs and other forums. You will find millins of code samples and how-to’s. You will find many open source projects and many advices.

You can find articles on how to store user settings, or you can find a tutorial about creating your own data base using Core Data technology.

During your studying process at some point you will need to understand a Model-View-Controller architecture. That’s a way how to build you app and iOS frameworks were designed to support this architecture. It might save you a lot of time if you get it right.

The second thing is the Apple human interface guidelines Invest your time to read this document. That’s an essential document for building user interface for iPhone applications.

If you will strugle with some feature or bug you might watch a video tutorial like that one about navigation controllers.

During this studying process you will create many simple applications. Moreover you will find some interesting ideas for your own application. Some day you will decide that you have learned enough to start making your own app. So just create a new project in XCode and start writing your own app.

At this moment you will get back to google with your own specific problems and questions. Lots of people have faced similar problems already and you will find ready to take solutions. Sometimes the answers are not right, the code contains bugs and you will create your own solution and you might share it with the developer community.

Then you will become concert on your code quality and these two articles might explain you basics on naming classes, variables, accessors, general methods and abbreviations and more detail on method names, global symbols, the id type, method parameters, etc.

When your app will be ready you will find useful to integrate twitter or facebook with your app or you might even start using a Share Kit for that purpose.

To improve user experience and application responsiveness you might need to study Grand Central Dispatch technology.

If you will decide to open source your code you will need to use some sort of version controll system like Git.

You can do everything by your self and once your app is ready please send me a link, I would like to see it.

If you are still asking how to learn how to make an iPhone app, get an XCode and start making your first iPhone app.

Do you have a marketing department? If not, good. If you do, don’t think these are the only people responsible for marketing. Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t. Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

Just as you cannot not communicate, you cannot not market:

• Every time you answer the phone, it’s marketing.
• Every time you send an e-mail, it’s marketing.
• Every time someone uses your product, it’s marketing.
• Every word you write on your Web site is marketing.
• If you build software, every error message is marketing.
• If you’re in the restaurant business, the after-dinner mint is marketing.
• If you’re in the retail business, the checkout counter is marketing.
• If you’re in a service business, your invoice is marketing.

Recognize that all of these little things are more important than choosing which piece of swag to throw into a conference goodie bag. Marketing isn’t just a few individual events. It’s the sum total of everything you do.

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hanson

There are many improvements but in short:

- Mac OS X Lion support
- Many bug fixes and improvements according to your feedback!
- User accounts support
- New simplified user interface
- New syncing algorithm
- User data encryption

I have updated an iSynchronize support page, it will tell you about new features and some technologies behind iSynchronize 2.0 application!

PixAM 2.0 is fully compatible with the Mac OS X Lion!

Get your copy from Mac App Store!

Release Notes

- Mac OS X Lion complete support
- All screenshots are saved to Downloads directory
- Image editing is up to two times faster
- All Tools will have smooth shadows
- Undo tool do not replace your current tool anymore
- Application will not open preview for every uploaded/saved image. On successful upload you can click on notification window and open this link in a browser. 

- Fixed bug with Account login window when it was displayed under other windows
- Fixed bug with Screenshots naming using current date
- Fixed bug with Blur tool for large images
- Fixed bug with zooming for full screen images
- Fixed memory leaks

- We support hotkeys for all editing tools
Brush: CMD + B
Line: CMD + L
Arrow: CMD + A
Rectangle: CMD + R
Oval: CMD + O
Text: CMD + T
Erase: CMD + E
UNDO: CMD + Z
Share: CMD + S
Save to File: CMD + F

With FileVault 2 Mac OS X Lion gives you an incredible way to protect all your data, but I would like to protect all my backups as well. I was trying to find some information on how to encrypt external drive for using it with the FileVault 2 but without a success. In the end I have found an easy way on how to encrypt my backup drive and this is a short tutorial.

1. Open Time Machine preferences and press Select Disk… button

2. Select your drive and check Encrypt backup disk option

3. Enter and confirm password for drive encryption and press Encrypt Drive button

4. Time Machine will encrypt your backup drive

5. After encryption it will start backing up your data as usual. You are done!