by Alex Kac | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Mac Desktop
My Point of View I’ve been working in the mobile space since 2000 at least, and so much of my mindset is definitely on how to design and build mobile apps. With Desktop Informant we’ve stepped into the more powerful and less-restrictive space of desktop...
by Alex Kac | Aug 24, 2015 | Blog
Recently while playing videos, I noticed a cool new iOS 9 feature: pan and zoom. Before, when watching a video in portrait I could double tap to zoom in, but I had no control over where the video was playing. On iOS 9, you can now double tap a video, pinch and zoom...
by Alex Kac | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog, Opinion
Hope. Excitement. Anticipation – no – its not Pocket Informant 5 or Desktop Informant Release 6 – though I will have some information on those soon. No, yesterday I dropped my first-born at his new home – University of Colorado Colorado Springs...
by Alex Kac | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Releases
While the busy elves here are working on Desktop and Informant 5, we are ecstatic to announce the release of Pocket Informant 4.70 for iOS bringing our own Apple Watch app and better integration with Apple Reminders. Here are the top improvements in 4.70: Apple Watch...
by Alex Kac | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
We are about near the end of our beta testing of Watch Informant – and its an exciting time! This sunday I fly to San Francisco and sit in line for 10 hours to get into the Apple Keynote (I know I don’t have to – but I really enjoy meeting other...
by Alex Kac | Apr 29, 2015 | Developer Diary, Featured
I have always grown up with the idea of using an analog timepiece is far preferable to the digital. Aesthetically I have always preferred the analog: I love the round physicality of space that shows where I am in the day; the beautiful type of the numbers; the smooth...
by Alex Kac | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
One of the most difficult aspects of user interface design is figuring out how much content to put on the screen. There’s a balance between showing enough useful at-a-glance information versus white space to make it more aesthetically pleasing and easier to...
by Alex Kac | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion
Straight up – I’m not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA – the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches and clocks in general. I love wall clocks, grandfather clocks,...
by Alex Kac | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog
For almost 15 years now we’ve had a forum software running on our server and its one of my favorite things because I enjoy talking to customers directly. However over that time it has been the vector of attack by malicious hackers and its gotten really complex...
by Alex Kac | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion, Releases
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we’ve heard how Apple’s review process is opaque, unfair, arduous,...
