Here Comes the Metal Mouth
My first iPhone app has been submitted to the app store for review! Metal Mouth is a text-to-speech synthesizer that mimics the talking devices of the 80's (Speak & Spell, "Wizard needs food, badly", etc.) The functionality is similar to my Synthetic Speech In Flash demo, but with many new features (male & female voices, auto-tune, pitch & time scratching) and a snappy interface with talking robots.
This took about 5 weeks to develop. Meanwhile, I've started another app, and I envision releasing Metal Mouth 2.0 in a few months, with more voices, and the ability to record audio.
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Fixin’ for a Pixen
Pixen is poised to become the reigning champ of OS X pixel editors. It supports layers, tablet pressure, and animation. But Pixen has a bug that interrupts my creative flow -- if I tap a palette color using my Wacom tablet, it always highlights the color, but usually fails to apply the color. What the...?!
Fortunately, the developers made the source code available. I had almost zero Cocoa experience before opening the source, yet the code was well-organized, and I was able to fix the bug!