by Alex Kac | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Last year we did a survey that gave us a ton of insight into what we were doing well and what we were doing poorly. With those results we designed Informant 4 for iOS and Android, and also version 4.5 a few months later. We really took the results to heart and tried...
by Alex Kac | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Apple is currently having a productivity blowout sale for iOS and OS X. Pocket Informant isn’t on there because we don’t actually have a paid app – its a free app with a trial, and then a premium in-app purchase. In that spirit, we are putting...
by Alex Kac | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
We started work on 4.55 in mid-December to continue optimizing, fixing, and all around polishing Informant for iOS up. 6 weeks later we were ready to submit it as 4.55 and we realized that we had done enough new builds that our third segment of the version number had...
by Alex Kac | Jan 24, 2015 | Blog, Opinion
We currently use Invision Power Board (IPB) for our forum software. Its been great, but its also been a headache for us since we’d rather focus on developing software than maintaining it. One thing that’s kept us from moving from IPB is that we have tens...
by Alex Kac | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I’m not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo as its being actively finished and so its not merged in with...
by Alex Kac | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
A long time ago I used to use a couple apps called Now Contact and Now Calendar on Mac OS 7/8/9. They were fantastic: fast, reliable, and their UI was great. When OS X came out they spent years working on a new OS X compatible version called “Nighthawk”....
by Alex Kac | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Opinion
Chris has spent the week getting ready for his Christmas Eve service as he handles all the lights and production at his church. Wes is ready for some rest 🙂 This week I’ve been working on all the backend registration aspects of PI Desktop as well as its update...
by Alex Kac | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Releases
I’m a little hot right now and its not the weather (its actually snowing where I live). Apple has told us that iTunes Connect – the system we use to submit new releases to Apple – would be closed December 22nd through December 29th. No problem at...
by Alex Kac | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary
Pocket Informant on iOS has been syncing to Google Calendar since its inception. When we first introduced Informant we had the option of using CalDAV, ActiveSync, or Google’s Calendar API v2. Every calendar developer would tell you to use the Calendar API as it...
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Back in the summer we talked a little about our Mac Desktop plans and its been awhile so I wanted to give you a status update. Chris has been hard at work on Mac Desktop for almost a year. A lot our iOS code is usable on the Mac, but almost all the UI isn’t....
