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Sam Rowlands

@samrowlands.bsky.social

API Wrangler, Partner, Architect, Chief virtual duct tape applicator at Ohanaware, developing for the  Mac since '94. Doggo Dad. Drinks Tea. Wearer of Tshirts.

1,380 Followers  |  142 Following  |  362 Posts  |  Joined: 23.08.2023  |  1.9688

Latest posts by samrowlands.bsky.social on Bluesky

Thank you, now to try to figure out why I'm not getting any notifications from BlueSky.

26.08.2025 04:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just checking to make sure you've received your serial number by now and I wanted to apologize for our automated serial number generator system failing. We're still working to bring it back online :(

24.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Adopting Liquid Glass with a Xojo made application.
ohanaware.com/blog/2025/07...

28.07.2025 07:47 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This awesome bundle includes the latest version of our App Wrapper.

17.07.2025 03:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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SwiftUI macOS pragmatically showing an open or save panel as a sheet.

#SwiftUI #macOS
ohanaware.com/swift/macOSO...

25.06.2025 03:34 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I love the concept of SwiftUI and I truly believe it to be the future, just disappointed with the macOS execution. I really wish that someone else was in charge of the software at Apple, someone who cares about the details.

07.06.2025 03:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another way might be to add some padding to the OK button, pushing the spacing between the two.

06.06.2025 04:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

AFAIK there isn't a way to adjust the spacing between toolbar items, you might be able to get it to 20 by adding a fixed width Spacer(), but then as the placement is handled by SwiftUI, the spacer may not show up between the two buttons either.

04.06.2025 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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SwiftUI macOS sheet dialog buttons, how to meet the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

ohanaware.com/swift/macOSS...

#swiftUI #macOSDev

03.06.2025 03:19 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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macOS Vibrancy in SwiftUI made Mac apps.
Shows you how to get it and how to match AppKit made Mac apps.
ohanaware.com/swift/macOSV...

#SwiftUI #macOSDev

19.05.2025 04:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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SwiftUI macOS Toolbar examples and tricks.

#swiftUI #macOS

ohanaware.com/swift/macOST...

28.04.2025 03:28 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Wrote a SwiftUI tutorial, it's my first tutorial in over decade and my first for SwiftUI.
Build a simple Markdown Editor.

ohanaware.com/swift/markdo...

23.04.2025 03:38 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Backup To Go 2 - Protect your important files, take them to go Backup To Go was designed to help protect your photos, projects, thesis, drafts, app ideas and other important files by backing them up to a USB drive, SD Card or portable hard drive, so you can take ...

Backup To Go 2.0.1 fixes a bug that could stop it from working for some customers.
Backup To Go keeps your important files safe, by backing them up to a USB drive or SD card, so you can take 'em with you.

ohanaware.com/backuptogo

#macAppRevival #indieMacDev #indiedev

18.04.2025 02:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Backup To Go 2 - Protect your important files, take them to go Backup To Go was designed to help protect your photos, projects, thesis, drafts, app ideas and other important files by backing them up to a USB drive, SD Card or portable hard drive, so you can take ...

New free Mac App from Ohanaware
Backup To Go keeps your important files safe, by keeping a backup on a USB drive or SD card, so you can take 'em with you.

ohanaware.com/backuptogo

#macAppRevival #indieMacDev #indiedev

16.04.2025 04:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure I'd call modern UI shiny, but it for sure is \(wordOfYourChoice).

15.04.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sleep Aid - View a Mac's sleeping habits, solve issues, improve battery life, stop sniffers Sleep Aid is designed to reveal details on how a Mac sleeps. This is useful to see what's going on, and to help troubleshoot why a Mac won't go to sleep (even with lid closed), or why it keeps waking ...

Sleep Aid 1.5 is released, Adds a new CPU Usage window for figuring out how much CPU apps use during insomnia.
Sleep Aid helps to view a Mac's sleeping habits, solve sleep issues, improve battery life and stop sniffers.

ohanaware.com/sleepaid/

#macAppRevival #indieMacDev #indiedev

10.04.2025 04:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Except for the keyboard... Its reliability really let that neat little MacBook down.

16.02.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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App Wrapper - Easily publish Mac apps on the Mac App Store or websites App Wrapper is Ohanaware's premium Post-Build Processor for the macOS, used by 100s of developers to prepare their macOS applications for the Mac App Store and distribution on their websites. App Wrap...

App Wrapper 4.8 Released today, improving support for M series Macs and Cycling '74 developer tool. App Wrapper is our premium post processor that is designed to make it easier to publish Mac apps on websites and the Mac App Store.

ohanaware.com/appwrapper

#macAppRevival #indieMacDev #indiedev

05.02.2025 03:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for taking the time to test this version and report back to me, I'm especially glad that it does solve the problem for you too. I'll make this a general release soon.

04.02.2025 01:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sleep Aid - Diagnose and solve Mac sleeping issues Does your battery drain while your MacBook is sleeping? Do your headphones wake your Mac? Does your Mac flash its screen, keyboard or mouse during the night? Solve these problems and more with Ohanawa...

I've just tried again to fix this bug and posted a new beta to the prerelease page. Please let me know if this version helps.

ohanaware.com/sleepaid/pre...

03.02.2025 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I would advise testing disable Wi-Fi option to see if it does help reduce insomnia, and I would recommend trying "Delay Background Tasks by decades".
If the sleep quality improves, you know you've found a solution. Then decide which is more important for you.

03.02.2025 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huh... I'll take another run at it. In the meantime, you can manually resize the window so you can see all the contents, just grab the bottom of the window and drag it down.
Which version of the macOS are you running? Which MacBook?

03.02.2025 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sleep Aid - Diagnose and solve Mac sleeping issues Does your battery drain while your MacBook is sleeping? Do your headphones wake your Mac? Does your Mac flash its screen, keyboard or mouse during the night? Solve these problems and more with Ohanawa...

Sorry about that bug, it was weird because it didn't show for everyone, but I've fixed it with one of the beta releases to which you can download from the following URL.

ohanaware.com/sleepaid/pre...

02.02.2025 01:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The screenshot of the sleep history, suggests that at least some of the wakes are caused by the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth controller. I see you have Bluetooth set to sleep, have you tried disabling both Wi-Fi during sleep and disabling Keep Network connections alive?

31.01.2025 02:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Restless Mac Syndrome

Hi Rico, I don't have any more information or a contact at Apple regarding this. The only solutions I have are listed in the blog article ohanaware.com/blog/2023/09...
Are you still running Ventura?

30.01.2025 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a wonderful new year.

25.12.2024 02:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
App Wrapper 4 - Prereleases Use App Wrapper to help with submitting applications to the Mac App Store and deploying applications on a web site. It simplifies the code signing & App Sandbox with an easy intuitive interface, yet p...

To combat a rumor; App Wrapper is still very much supported, in fact there's a current beta under going testing.
If you'd like to try the beta, you can download it from the following page.
ohanaware.com/appwrapper/p...

20.12.2024 01:19 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is my Mac warm when it's asleep? The "Process CPU Usage" in the latest Sleep Aid beta gave me this information. You can try it yourself by downloading the beta, select "Process CPU Usage" from the "View" menu and let the Mac sleep.
ohanaware.com/sleepaid/pre...

18.12.2024 04:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't you mean 28 Years later?

18.12.2024 04:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
App Wrapper 4 - Prereleases Use App Wrapper to help with submitting applications to the Mac App Store and deploying applications on a web site. It simplifies the code signing & App Sandbox with an easy intuitive interface, yet p...

Added support to App Wrapper for Notarizing Cycling '74 Max 9 made Mac apps. There's currently a beta version for anyone interested.
ohanaware.com/appwrapper/p...

17.12.2024 07:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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