Archives for December, 2005

Happy New Year and happy new beta of WebnoteHappy Lite! December 31st, 2005

Happy New Years! I’ve been feverishly working the past week on WebnoteHappy. I just uploaded a new beta of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b17. I had hoped to have a final candidate release by now, but good food, I mean good apps, take time to prepare. :) Here’s what’s new: 1. The webnotes are now stored in …

Gus Mueller: How to be a Mac Indie in 1068 days December 27th, 2005

Gus – who I met at WWDC last year – has a great post on his blog titled How to Become an Independent Programmer in just 1068 days where he explains how he’s become a full-time Mac Indie gradually over the past few years. I think it is great that the Mac community supports independent …

Merry Christmas! December 26th, 2005

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. For me, it was pretty relaxing and it was great to see all my relatives. I rested my brain by not thinking about code, but I did talk about WebnoteHappy with some of my relatives that had heard that I was writing some software. They seemed to think it …

Want to help beta test WebnoteHappy Pro? December 22nd, 2005

I’m fighting off a cold, but that won’t stop my efforts, only slow them down a bit. I’ve got most of Smart Folders done and I’ll be rolling out the first private beta of WebnoteHappy Pro soon. So if you’re interested in helping me out by beta testing the Pro version, send me an email …

Please use the new bookmarklet December 21st, 2005

Mike Butler wrote in and said that the new build of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b16 was not getting the title from the webpage when he used the bookmarklet. I just did some debugging and found the problem. The old bookmarklet is not compatible with the newest build. So everyone, please install the new bookmarklet. You can …

Third public beta of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b16 December 20th, 2005

This latest release of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b16 features improved support for Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, and other browsers. Camino and OmniWeb join Safari and NetNewsWire in getting hotkey support, which is the quickest way to add and edit webnotes. Firefox and all other browsers can now use the bookmarklet seamlessly to webnote the current page. (Previously …

Why everyone should support Safari December 20th, 2005

Mike Rundle over at Business Logs wrote Either Support Safari, Or Lose Customers: If you care about the Macintosh user base, then you should care about Safari. If you don’t care about Safari, then you’re saying you do not care about the Mac user base. It’s quite simple. … People don’t switch to Firefox because …

NetNewsWire wins an Eddy December 18th, 2005

Congratulations to Brent and Sheila Simmons for winning an Eddy for NetNewsWire 2. He won one for NetNewsWire back in 2003 as well. NetNewsWire is one of those must-have Mac apps that I use every day. I’ve got 394 feeds and counting. I am definitely way more informed nowadays. It was just too hard to …

If you’re looking for a bookmarking tool for Mac OS X… December 15th, 2005

Jason Santa Maria wrote on his blog about Markmaking: Ok, so I finally decided I want to start using a bookmarking tool. I have a wealth of bookmarks from the past 8 or so years that I’ve painstakingly kept organized and categorized in a variety of browsers (Safari being the latest). This works out great, …

Give the gift of iTunes December 13th, 2005

Apple and PayPal are having a promotion: You buy an iTunes Gift Certificate for a loved one and you get free songs for yourself. Cool! The only thing you have to do is buy it through PayPal. So if you give a $20 gift certificate, you get 10 free songs, which is like getting $9.90 …