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To Organize or Not To Organize, That Is The Question

by Wesley Sandlin | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog

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...

Organized Simplicity – AKA “Fake it Till You Make It”

by Fanatic Software | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog

I’m not organized by nature. Procrastination is my middle name, and last minute is my motivation. Just being honest here. I have aspirations of having all of my ducks in a row…and then real life kicks in, and yep…there it goes. First, let me explain just a...

Surviving Life during the Holidays with Pocket Informant

by Fanatic Software | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, Featured

“What else was I supposed to do today? I am pretty sure I got everything. Do you remember the address of the holiday party we are going to tonight?” I’ve been using Informant on my Android phone for years now and haven’t uttered those words since, especially during...

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.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

by Alex Kac | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog

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

by Alex Kac | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases

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...

Where art thou Forum?

by Alex Kac | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog, Opinion

Many of our regular customers may remember we used to have a vibrant forum on this website, but earlier this year we removed it. I’ve recently been asked if we plan to bring it back and it made me ponder on its value. See, we had a forum for nearly 15 years here...

What does the Inbox say?

by Alex Kac | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary

We have recently soft-released Desktop Informant Milestone 6 and with that came a change to how Inbox works that is also coming to Pocket Informant on iOS in version 4.8. This change reverts a behavior to that which we originally had, and that which we believe is...

A Change of Plans – 4.74 getting some PI 5 stuff

by Alex Kac | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary

Its no secret that I’ve been working on Informant 5 for awhile now. Its still very much in-progress with a dramatically reworked … well everything. My plan for 4.74 was simply to fix bugs and make sure it worked well on iOS 9. For example I wasn’t going to...

The Quest for the (Desktop) Helper

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...

Cool new iOS 9 Feature

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...

First Day of College and so much to do!

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...