Tom Harrington has written a couple articles recently about running a customer mailing list for an indie software business. Running a customer mailing list Return of the mailing list The second one’s ominous title has to do with the fact that Harrington’s hosting provider, pair Networks, has a restrictive policy about using their servers to […]

Two of my independent software developer friends (on non-Mac platforms they’d probably be called competitors) have released substantially new versions of their products today! It’s probably hard for non-developers to appreciate just how much work goes into even a modest set of improvements. Software is hard work. And the hard work isn’t all in the […]

While I was at WWDC this year, Scott McNulty and Victor Agreda from TUAW caught up with me. Scott and I had a nice chat while Victor manned the camera. I think it turned out pretty well. We spent a good portion of the time talking about and showing off Black Ink. So if you’ve […]

Well – it looks like I wrote my first iPhone utility. A pretty remarkable feat when you consider that I don’t have an iPhone. Even more remarkable when you consider the utility was written in late 2005, and hasn’t been touched since :) Today Jason Snell, the editor of Macworld, discovered a clever trick for […]