by Alex Kac | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I’m not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo as its being actively finished and so its not merged in with...
by Alex Kac | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
A long time ago I used to use a couple apps called Now Contact and Now Calendar on Mac OS 7/8/9. They were fantastic: fast, reliable, and their UI was great. When OS X came out they spent years working on a new OS X compatible version called “Nighthawk”....
by Alex Kac | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Opinion
Chris has spent the week getting ready for his Christmas Eve service as he handles all the lights and production at his church. Wes is ready for some rest 🙂 This week I’ve been working on all the backend registration aspects of PI Desktop as well as its update...
by Alex Kac | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Releases
I’m a little hot right now and its not the weather (its actually snowing where I live). Apple has told us that iTunes Connect – the system we use to submit new releases to Apple – would be closed December 22nd through December 29th. No problem at...
by Fanatic Software | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Opinion, Uncategorized
I’ve been using TextExpander since at least 2009 (that’s the earliest receipt I can find right now) and its one of the first apps that I install on my Mac because of how important it is to my personal and professional use. I chose TextExpander at that time – and...
by Fanatic Software | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Releases
FollowUp is a new app for Android smartphones, made to automate handling communicating tasks. For example, you read your email messages and want to create tasks to reply to some of them. Before, you needed to select email subject, switch to your task manager and...
by Alex Kac | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary
Pocket Informant on iOS has been syncing to Google Calendar since its inception. When we first introduced Informant we had the option of using CalDAV, ActiveSync, or Google’s Calendar API v2. Every calendar developer would tell you to use the Calendar API as it...
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Back in the summer we talked a little about our Mac Desktop plans and its been awhile so I wanted to give you a status update. Chris has been hard at work on Mac Desktop for almost a year. A lot our iOS code is usable on the Mac, but almost all the UI isn’t....
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Featured
One area of marketing that we need to do better in is creating videos to show users how they can use Pocket Informant better than the other apps out there on iOS and Android. We have some videos we made for iOS – mostly as a help tool for support: Quick Entry,...
by Alex Kac | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, Featured
I grew up in New York City and loved being in the City, but when I grew up I moved to the more rural areas of Texas, and now Colorado. However once a year I’ve got to go to a big city and enjoy that life. Its in my blood. A few weeks ago I was blessed to go to...
by Alex Kac | Sep 20, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary
As I’ve blogged about before, I’ve been working on 4.1 for iOS for awhile, but what may not be all that obvious is that I’ve spent a lot of time trying to improve our interface and look. These changes haven’t been just for the sake of change...
by Alex Kac | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
iOS 8 has been released today and its a pretty exciting release! For Informant there are some really exciting new features as well – such as the ability to integrate with TouchID, custom alarm actions, Today Widgets, extensions, and more! We’ve been...
