by Alex Kac | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog
In the mid-2000s I worked with Franklin Covey on a mutually beneficial partnership that brought Franklin Covey features to Informant and saw Informant distributed with Franklin Covey desktop software. In many ways it was the golden age of Informant as we were at the...
by Alex Kac | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
One thing that I think is cool about Informant 5 is our new iOS 10 Rich Notifications. When you get a notification for an event or task – you can force touch on a notification and get several new snooze options and a cleaner looking notification showing...
by Alex Kac | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
Wow! What a response! Our customers are fantastic. Truly special. I’m honored to be working with Chris, Tabetha, Keith, and Wesley to make this release a fantastic one. Yes, there are a few bugs – there always are. Chris is hard at work on a 5.01 and...
by Alex Kac | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Mac Desktop, Promotional, Releases
Wow – there has certainly been a lot of discussion about the pricing on Informant 5. We have announced that we are moving to a subscription model and we had a lot of feedback. While many were very supportive (thank you for that!), we had a some who were not. ...
by Alex Kac | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
Informant 5. It’s the Excalibur of Informant! The mythical major update we’ve been talking about for about 2 years now – and yes, it’s no more a myth! In the next couple weeks, we’ll be releasing Informant 5 and we’re very excited...
by Alex Kac | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
Informant 5 has both a light and dark mode. One of the difficulties of a dark mode is that Informant is very heavy on user-selected colors – for example calendar, tag, and individual event/task colors. How do you make a red calendar color usable on a dark theme? This...
by Alex Kac | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
Apple yesterday released iOS 10 and will soon be releasing macOS Sierra At Fanatic we have a history of supporting the current and previous OS and we try to time our updates and versions around these major OS releases. Very soon we will be updating all of our software...
by Alex Kac | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary
Since I moved to Colorado a few years ago I have never really taken the time to figure out what part of the US we are officially in. Since I’m originally from New York and then Texas, I always considered Colorado the “West” and it looks like the US...
by Alex Kac | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Help and Tutorials
Remember when school started right after labor day here in the US? I hear that it still does in some parts of the States – but here in Colorado my school-age kids started school last week! I’ve got two boys in college – UCCS and JWU – one in...
by Alex Kac | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Mac Desktop
WWDC WWDC 2016 is done and gone and finally a week after its been done I’ve been able to pick through all the relevant info and get a good feel on what we need to do to move forward. Some of the more exciting things for me were the new Siri API (though I...
