Florent Pillet - Software Development

 

Main Products
 
FindHack
Palm
FindHack
Replaces your Palm's Find function and brings a number of extremely useful enhancements you don't want to miss! FindHack received several awards for its quality and ease of use.

Current version: 4.0.6 (December 2003)
Sync Buddy
Mac Palm
Sync Buddy

Mac OS X Universal version available! Sync Buddy is a powerful and easy to use backup, install and photos manager for Palm OS handheld users. Directly connected to your handheld, Sync Buddy bypasses HotSync to allow direct and instant manipulation of your handheld's contents through USB, Bluetooth and WiFi connections.

Current version: 2.1 Universal (April 2006)

iTreo
Mac Palm
iTreo

Mac OS X companion application to export the photos from your Treo, Zire or other Palm handheld to Apple's iPhoto, jpeg files, or any other application. If you take or manage pictures with your handheld, you don't want to miss this application!

Current version: 1.6
(January 2006)

osx-palm-tools
Mac Palm
osx-palm-tools
Developing for Palm OS on Mac OS X can sometimes be complicated by the lack of up-to-date tools for OS X. I started the osx-palm-tools project to provide free and useful tools to developers. This open-source project groups several tools I developed: Cocoa Palm Reporter, USB-TCP Bridge, HostTraceGlue, the Palm UI Constructor currently in development, as well as stuff developed by others. All free, under open source licenses.
 
BrainForest
Mac Palm
BrainForest
BrainForest is the premier action item, checklist manager, idea keeper, and project planner for Palm OS® handheld users. It was also the first product of its kind on Palm OS back in 1997. I'm still working on it and it is now being published by Ultrasoft.

Current version: see Ultrasoft web site
DataShield
Palm
DataShield
I developed Ultrasoft DataShield for Ultrasoft (the makers of Ultrasoft Money and Ultrasoft Checkbook). I use DataShield daily to store my serial numbers, web passwords, bank account access passwords & info, etc. Now that I wrote it, I can't live without it anymore. Check it out!

Current version: see Ultrasoft web site
SymbolHack
Palm
SymbolHack

Lets you easily type symbols which are usually difficult to write. (not compatible with Palm OS 5 yet, will be updated soon).

Current version: 1.1

PowerGlot
Mac
PowerGlot
PowerGlot is the leading tool for localization of Macintosh applications and Palm  OS applications. It allows you to translate any application in any language, including two-byte languages (Japanese, Chinese...) and right-to-left languages ( Arabic, Hebrew...). A unique tool on the Macintosh platform, PowerGlot is in use at many major companies to produce localized versions of their software!

Current version: 2.1.2 (Dec. 2003)
 
Other Downloads
 
French Mac keyboard layout for Windows v1.1   KProf open-source developer tool

If you use a Windows machine either with Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection, or with a USB switch to share your Mac keyboard/mouse between both computers, you probably noticed that Mac keyboards are poorly supported under Windows (especially international keyboards). I created a French keyboard layout file for Windows 2000 / XP which allows using a French Apple Pro keyboard either directly on a PC or through a Remote Desktop connection (should also help with VNC). Instructions are included for people willing to create their own keyboard layout file.

Download MacFrenchKeyboardLayoutForWindows.zip v1.1 (46kb zip file)

New version 1.1 contains setups for both Apple and MacAlly keyboards.

I worked mostly on Linux during a couple years and developed the KProf open-source profiling tool for developers. Since I'm now working on Mac OS X only, I am no longer the maintainer of KProf but others are actively contributing to it.
Pilot-link library
I use the pilot-link library in my Sync Buddy product and am the maintainer for the libpisock core of pilot-link. Besides debugging and improving the library, I wrote the Mac OS X USB code that it now uses to provide native USB support on Mac OS X. I can provide service and development around pilot-link if you wish to build products around this library.
 
Software Development Services
Looking for custom software development? Please contact me! I offer professional consulting, architecture and development services on Mac OS X, Unix, Palm OS, Windows, PocketPC, etc. My skills range from low-level coding to high-level product design and development, user-interface design and customer relationship management. Based near Sophia Antipolis, the biggest technological area in south east of France, I work both locally and remotely for clients worldwide.
 
Personal

You can read my résumé. If you're not faint of the heart, you can even watch some windsurf  pictures (taken on my home spot of Juan Les Pins on the French Riviera).

A biased selection of links (I could obviously add hundreds but here are some of my favorites):

Software I use daily on Mac OS X (in no particular order): Apple's XCode, Path Finder, DragThing, GLTerm, NetNewsWire, CodeWarrior for Palm OS, PalmSource SDKs, emulators and simulators, AppKiDo, Firefox, Desktop Manager, Proteus, Skype, Apple's iWork, TextMate.

Computer news: Slashdot, MacGeneration (in French), The Register.

World news: Google News, BBC News, InformationClearingHouse, Wired News, Liberation (French), Courrier International (French), Alternet.

Windsurf: Boardseeker Mag, DirectWind (French), Baston (French - live wind speeds), XCWeather (UK & France live wind speeds),

Copyright © 2006 Florent Pillet, All rights reserved.

Mac OS X is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
Palm OS is a registered trademark of PalmSource, Inc.
Treo and Zire are registered trademarks of palmOne, Inc.
All other trademarks belong to their respective holders.

Valid HTML 4.01! Ultrasoft Money