Invest In Yourself

Friday, November 28th, 2008

I made an offhand quip on the latest Core Intuition podcast, that in light of the recent stock market plunge, I should have invested money into my own company instead of the likes of Yahoo and Apple. I was (mostly) joking, but there’s a philosophical truth in there. All of us have lately learned, or […]

Giving MarsEdit A Voice

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Peter Verkhovensky recently wished out loud on Twitter for a feature in MarsEdit. He wanted the application to play a sound when a post has been sent successfully to a blog, similar to how Mail can play a noise when sending a message. Although MarsEdit doesn’t have built-in support for this, it turns out to […]

VoodooPad 4

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Big congratulations to my friend Gus Mueller whose company, Flying Meat, shipped VoodooPad 4 today. One of the major features in the updated desktop wiki software is page syncing across multiple computers, allowing users to easily maintain a collection of VoodooPad pages on multiple computers. I know from a user point of view syncing is […]

The Graphic Design Hat

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Those of you who have followed my blog for some time are aware that Red Sweater Software is, more or less, a company of one. I am the lead developer, marketer, strategist, bookkeeper, PR rep, and, as luck would so terribly have it, designer. Bob Walsh brilliantly summarizes the conundrum of small indie business people […]