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...
by Alex Kac | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Mac Desktop
We added Evernote integration to Informant years ago on mobile and we are now adding it to our Desktop version. This has been one of our biggest engineering projects in a year because we couldn’t use any of the old mobile code for Evernote on OS X. The Evernote...
by Alex Kac | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog
We offer Informant for Mac OS X, iOS, and Android but lately all of our announcements have been on iOS and OS X. That’s no secret – we’ve been spending 90% of our time trying to finish Informant for Mac OS X. So what is going on with Android? There...
by Alex Kac | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Last Friday our SSL certificate for this site expired. In general this is used for only a couple things – protecting our administration of our site, store, and such; our Informant OS X update checks, and for when you get to entering customer information on our...
by Alex Kac | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Opinion
The App Economy There has been much said recently about the state of the Apple App Market (sample here, and here, and here). Frankly, it sucks. The truth is that there simply is not enough market to continue a business based on “volume” or new customers....
by Alex Kac | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Today we’ve released Informant for iOS version 4.9 and it’s a pretty major upgrade. With all major upgrades there comes a few changes that we believe are done for the best, but might trip up a few of our long timer users so I’m writing this post to...
by Alex Kac | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
I am excited to talk a bit about what we have been working on over the last few months. I know we’ve be very quiet especially on Informant for OS X and so I want to get my head up, take a breath, look around and share with you what’s going on.About a month...
by Alex Kac | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
I think there is a fundamental difference between a focus on consumer and professional software when it comes to how options/preferences/settings are designed and implemented. Often for consumer software the fewer options and the best “guess” as to what...
by Fanatic Software | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
March 17, 2016 Thanks so much to all who participated! It has been so much fun to read all of your comments. Our winners are listed below. Congratulations to: S cithra003 hayros Please contact amy@fanaticsoftware.com to claim your prize. ——–...
by Alex Kac | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
I’ve been working on Informant 5.0 for a long time – mostly as part of our Mac Desktop version and also designing new refreshed interfaces throughout. I try really hard not to provide any timelines on major releases like this because in all the wobbly...
by Alex Kac | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Mac Desktop, Opinion
In the next OS X version, Apple is adding a new ability to import Evernote into Apple Notes. This is really interesting because the Apple Notes app is actually pretty good in El Capitan. In general, I prefer using Evernote because the notes are available to Informant...
by Alex Kac | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Mac Desktop
I’ve had a few people write to me lately of the fact that we didn’t make our goal for a End of Year 2015 final 1.0 release and its true – we didn’t. One of the defining points of Early Access is that our users get to actually affect the development...
