Archive for the 'Red Sweater News' Category

A Glimpse of Black Ink for iOS

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

Over on my development blog, Indie Stack, I shared a lesson learned about developing for iOS, where I’ve been making some progress on Black Ink. The problem? Black Ink’s keyboard shortcuts don’t show up as expected when holding down the Command key on an iPad keyboard. The solution? Suprisingly simple. Follow the link above if […]

Apple Pay Support

Friday, February 12th, 2021

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m happy to announce that the Red Sweater Store now supports Apple Pay! With this change, I took the opportunity to revise the whole checkout process in the store, adapting to the latest features that Stripe, my payment processing company, has to offer. This means that customers whose […]

FastScripts 3 Beta

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

FastScripts is one of Red Sweater’s most beloved, albeit niche, apps. The Mac-based scripting utility adds a menu bar icon for running scripts, and supports attaching keyboard shortcuts to them. Like many customers, I’ve been running it on my Mac literally every day for … seemingly forever. Although the app has been continuously developed over […]

A Fresh Start

Sunday, February 7th, 2021

I first established Red Sweater Software in 1999, when I was still living in San Francisco. At the time, I was working full time for Apple in Cupertino, but I had the idea of an independent software company simmering in the back of my mind. In 2002, I quit Apple not to focus on Red […]