Archive for April 26, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

BitTorrent Sync 1.0.116

BitTorrent Sync is a Dropbox-like app that syncs a folder between distributed peers, rather than using a central cloud server. It supports shared folders with read-only as well as read-write permissions.

Update (2013-05-02): Unfortunately, it doesn’t sync extended attributes (xattrs) or Mac metadata.

Pangea Software’s Ultimate Game Programming Guide for Mac OS X

Brian Greenstone’s book is now available as a free PDF download (via Peter Hosey). I remember enjoying it when it came out around the Panther timeframe. There’s probably still some relevant information in it, amidst reference to CHUD, Shark, Sherlock, and the old QuickTime APIs.