Archives for May, 2006

WebnoteHappy 1.0.1 released May 25th, 2006

I’m on vacation, but I found a bit of time to release the first update to WebnoteHappy, version 1.0.1. Thanks to Flip, Mike, and Jeff for doing some testing. What’s new in this release: Fixed a crash related to AppleScript. (Specifically creating a webnote with an empty URL.) Updated Install Bookmarklet page to make clear …

My Post WebnoteHappy 1.0 Experience May 22nd, 2006

I finished the website for WebnoteHappy, my newly released bookmark manager for Mac OS X with integrated note taking and tagging, early Wednesday morning at around 2AM. Then I told some of my friends who were online via IRC and IM. At this point I had gotten about 17 hours of sleep in the past …

MacBook In-Store Impressions May 19th, 2006

I’ll be blogging about my Post-WebnoteHappy-1.0 Experience soon, but I wanted to share my first impressions of the MacBook while they are fresh in my mind. I was having dinner at Tysons Corner and afterwards I stopped by the Apple Store with my wife. They had a whole table of MacBooks, 6 in all. 3 …

Announcing WebnoteHappy 1.0! May 17th, 2006

It is finally done. I’ve been feverishly working on WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager with integrated note taking and tagging for Mac OS X, for the past few months. If you were reading back on January 31st, I released WebnoteHappy Lite, which is the free version. I took all the user feedback I got from the …

What technical terms do Mac users care about? May 10th, 2006

I’m trying to revamp the Happy Apps site and I was thinking about technical Mac terms. Things like “Core Data”, “Cocoa”, “Tiger”, “Spotlight”, “Dashboard”, etc. I guess the last 3 are actually used by Apple in consumer advertising and in the Apple Stores. That is, do people care if you write something in Cocoa? If …

Get a Mac May 5th, 2006

I saw a few “Get a Mac” commercials on TV and watched the rest online. I kind of like these. Sure, they’re not perfect, but its hard to get across the whole “the Mac experience is a wonderful thing” in 30 seconds. Still, it’s nice to see Apple advertising for the Mac again, showing an …