If you’re running your own business and receiving a majority of your payments via PayPal (or if you make so much money that even a minority is a lot of cash), then you need to know about something called PayPal’s Merchant Rate. I first learned about this from Andy Kim, who wrote to the macsb […]

My friends over at Rogue Amoeba have been working their butts off for a long time, putting a bunch of work into both the technical and aesthetic design of their latest application. Radioshift: Radio On Your Schedule I’ve gotten to know almost everybody who works with Rogue Amoeba to varying degrees and I really like […]

Wil Shipley types extensively about Apple’s attitude trending towards greed. A great article without a great hook. Just force yourself to start reading, you’ll be glad you did. Most of us independent developers spend a lot of time trying to be more Apple-like. The idea is pretty simple. There’s this company, and they produce almost […]

I met Michael Dupuis as a side-effect of buying MacXword (now Black Ink) from Stephan Cleaves, who was Michael’s former business partner at Advenio. He’s a really nice guy and also an independent Mac developer, living just north of me up in Maine. Michael just released a new version of his amazingly excellent cooking/recipes application, […]