Informant for OS X Menu Today, floating

If you are using Desktop Informant, did you know that you can tear off the Informant Today menu and use it as a floating window? Simply tap on the menu to open it, and then drag on any part of the edge of the window. You’ll end up with something like this:

WebIS, Inc. is now Fanatic Software Inc.

In 1997 I started a small consulting firm in Austin, Texas designing the back-end of websites and I called my company Web Information Solutions. It was designed to give the idea that we focused on the information side of web technology – not on the artwork. We...

Informant Sync Expiration Dialog

I’ve been reading some of the App Store reviews and while the vast majority are 4 or 5 stars, the 1 and 2 star ones sometimes drive me up the wall because sometimes the issue is a misunderstanding, sometimes its an expectation that for $10 you get 10 years of...

To be fair, I’m an extreme multi-tasker and can handle doing up to about 3 or 4 things simultaneously: phone call, text message, email, and coding – but that only works when I don’t have to organize as I’m doing all those things.

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

From everyone here at WebIS – we wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! This is the time we set aside to spend time with our families and friends. Today I started at 7:30am doing my roasted vegetables (sweet potato, two kinds of regular potato, carrots, celery,...

Finishing touches on 4.81

To be honest, Pocket Informant 4.80 took up a lot more of my time than I expected. I originally expected 4.8 to be a small 4.7x bug-fix to make sure that Informant ran well on iOS 9. As time went on, I found that even though the programming interfaces in iOS 9...

Where art thou Forum?

Many of our regular customers may remember we used to have a vibrant forum on this website, but earlier this year we removed it. I’ve recently been asked if we plan to bring it back and it made me ponder on its value. See, we had a forum for nearly 15 years here...

What does the Inbox say?

We have recently soft-released Desktop Informant Milestone 6 and with that came a change to how Inbox works that is also coming to Pocket Informant on iOS in version 4.8. This change reverts a behavior to that which we originally had, and that which we believe is...