Yes, I am alive but with too much work at my day job. I am at full throttle with a new project involving SMSs and I am developing the application using Python and the Twisted framework.
In fact, I am implementing the SMPP protocol with Twisted and at the same time implementing a library with Twisted for using Amazon S3 and Amazon Queue Service. I hope to release them as open source in the future.
I will resume work for my Mac project in a month after reaching a stable base code in my day job work.