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:

Informant and Coffee [Giveaway] Winner announced!

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...

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 Organize or Not To Organize, That Is The Question

In the spirit of Alex’s post I thought that I would take a moment to explain the way I organize and how I process the activities of life. I am not a great multi-tacker like Alex: for me its all about completion, I am a finisher. In my mind everything is...

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...