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...
by Fanatic Software | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Help and Tutorials
Happy New Year! I love January as it is a time of new beginnings. As such, I want to help (you) our faithful Informant customers, get off to a great start in 2016 by clearing up some of the most common questions we get in support. Hundreds of times each week we seem...
by Alex Kac | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
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:
by Alex Kac | Jan 10, 2016 | Blog
I don’t wear my Apple watch all the time because I do have dry skin in the winter and anything on my wrist eventually irritates it, but I wear it nearly 100% of the time when I’m out. It helps me disconnect from my phone and stop looking at my phone for...
by Fanatic Software | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog
January 11, 2016 – Thank you all so much for your participation! It was fun to read how everyone benefits from technology in a personal way. The winner of this giveaway is rpfarrah@gmail.com – “I am very task-oriented. I work off of a priorited...
by Alex Kac | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog, Featured
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...
by Alex Kac | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
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...
