Charcoal Design http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/weblog 2008-07-11T17:49:23Z http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites 2008-07-11T17:49:23Z <p>We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.0, a replacement for the now-deprecated REALbasic SpriteSurface control, used for making 2D games in REALbasic.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbgl http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbgl 2008-06-16T20:12:11Z <p>We've just released version 1.1 of RBGL, our open source graphics library for REALbasic that leverages the OpenGL library on Mac OS and Windows for hardware accelerated graphics.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/realunit http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/realunit 2008-04-20T16:20:46Z <p>We've added REALunit, a new open source unit testing framework for REALbasic to our open source software page.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical1-1 http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical1-1 2007-08-15T02:21:14Z <p>We've just released a major update to our popular MagiCal menu bar clock and calendar. Almost every feature has been enhanced and polished - even the icon!</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/parser http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/parser 2007-07-29T19:26:13Z <p>We've added new open source libraries to our REALbasic source page, including classes for tokenizing and parsing complex formatted strings such as programming languages and structured data.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/bugtracker http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/bugtracker 2007-03-23T01:30:07Z <p>We've overhauled our bug reporting and feature request systems with a brand new interactive bug tracking database.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/subscriber1-1 http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/subscriber1-1 2007-03-19T00:11:01Z <p>Subscriber 1.1 is now out of beta, and comes loaded with a few new goodies including full support for Intel macintoshes, and a shiny new icon!</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/maczot http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/maczot 2007-03-16T18:25:39Z <p>Our Popular puzzle game <strong>PicTiles</strong> will be appearing on <a href="http://www.maczot.com/" >macZOT</a> this weekend, at the special discount price of $9.99!</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/applematters http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/applematters 2007-02-28T21:55:39Z <p>Apple Matters has posted a review of our freeware utilities MagiCal and Shades, along with a mini-bio of Charcoal Design's founder and chief software engineer Nick Lockwood.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pictiles1-1 http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pictiles1-1 2007-02-02T00:35:31Z <p>We've just released a major update to our popular PicTiles puzzle game, which includes Intel processor support, as well as many other enhancements.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical 2007-01-06T18:31:14Z <p>We've just released MagiCal, a <strong>FREE</strong> menu-based clock and calendar program for Mac OS X. MagiCal provides a range of time and date display options, and can operate in conjunction with, or as a replacement for, the system menu clock.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades1-1 http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades1-1 2006-12-18T01:29:47Z <p>We've just released a major update to our popular Shades application, which includes many new features requested by our users.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades 2006-11-24T06:45:47Z <p>We've released a new software product called Shades. Shades is a <strong>FREE</strong> utility for adjusting monitor brightness on your Macintosh. It can be used as a compliment to the built-in brightness controls of many Macintosh machines, offering a greater dynamic range and finer control.</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/source http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/source 2006-11-22T18:15:29Z <p>We've added a new open source page to the software section of our site. We believe that open source software is a great way to encourage innovation and progress within the developer community, and for this reason we have decided to provide the source code for our in-house tools and experiments...</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pink http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pink 2006-10-13T12:11:06Z <p> <a href="http://pinkforoctober.org" >Pinkforoctober.org</a> has been set up in order to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. Like many others, Charcoal Design will be adopting a pink hue for the duration of the month of October...</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/relaunch http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/relaunch 2006-10-13T02:22:21Z <p>We hope you all like the new-look site. After languishing in development hell for several years, and after several redesigns which never saw the light of day, Charcoal Design is now officially open for business. The new site features a number of enhancements, which we will be adding to over the next few weeks...</p> http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pipette http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pipette 2006-10-07T22:00:11Z <p>We're proud to announce the release of a new product called Pipette. Pipette is a <strong>FREE</strong> utility for web developers and digitial artists that allows you to take colour readings from anywhere on the screen, and return the colour value in the right format for pasting into Photoshop or any web page. Download it now...</p>