Archive for the 'Business' Category

LiveDiscKit From Rogue Amoeba

Friday, June 27th, 2008

At this year’s Macworld conference, the guys at Rogue Amoeba decided to do what many trade show exhibitors do: give away a free demo CD to interested attendees. But recognizing the conventional drawback of these demos, that they are obsolete from almost the minute the disc is burned, they invested in developing a clever application […]

Core Intuition Episode 3

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Manton and I are still at it. We’ve heard the feedback, some of it lukewarm, some of it intentionally discouraging, but most of it extremely enthusiastic. We’re proud to announce the immediate availability of episode 3, where we talk about WWDC, MobileMe, iPhone 3G, and a bunch of relatively unrelated stuff. Check us out!

Paul Kim On Software Bundles

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Paul Kim of Noodlesoft participated in the MacUpdate Bundle, putting Hazel up for sale along with a number of other applications, for a low-cost bundled price. In a recent blog post he goes into glorious detail about the motivations for participating, the pluses and minuses, and after all is said and done, whether he would […]

Pixels Are Hot

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

And then there were three (at least!). After much anticipation, Matthew Drayton has shipped Iris 1.0, his company Nolobe’s entry into the “Photoshop-like” pixel-pushing market on OS X. Congratulations, Matthew! I know how hard it is to get 1.0 out the door, even with products of considerably less complexity than a well-featured image editing application. […]