by Alex Kac | Apr 29, 2015 | Developer Diary, Featured
I have always grown up with the idea of using an analog timepiece is far preferable to the digital. Aesthetically I have always preferred the analog: I love the round physicality of space that shows where I am in the day; the beautiful type of the numbers; the smooth...
by Fanatic Software | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Help and Tutorials
Informant for Android and Informant for iOS have two data sources that they can use. Each one can use its own internal database or it can share the devices database. Much like when you look at your kitchen faucet, it has hot and cold water. You can use hot water only...
by Alex Kac | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
One of the most difficult aspects of user interface design is figuring out how much content to put on the screen. There’s a balance between showing enough useful at-a-glance information versus white space to make it more aesthetically pleasing and easier to...
by Fanatic Software | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog, Featured
This year marked a milestone birthday for me. I won’t name the age, but it begins with a four and ends with a zero. I’m not afraid of aging; I plan to do it gracefully. Well, at least as gracefully as I can with lots of help from available products. Gray is not my...
by Alex Kac | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion
Straight up – I’m not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA – the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches and clocks in general. I love wall clocks, grandfather clocks,...
by Alex Kac | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog
For almost 15 years now we’ve had a forum software running on our server and its one of my favorite things because I enjoy talking to customers directly. However over that time it has been the vector of attack by malicious hackers and its gotten really complex...
by Fanatic Software | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, Featured
Syncing does not apply to ships and backing up is not what happens to your sewer in the world of Informant! In support on a regular basis we see cases where customers are referring to using Informant and the Informant backup service or Informant with the Google...
by Alex Kac | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion, Releases
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we’ve heard how Apple’s review process is opaque, unfair, arduous,...
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...
