Fishing For Customers

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Dan Wood has picked up on something I said in Core Intuition 19, about how running a business and attracting customers can largely be seen as an exercise in extracting as many fish as possible from the proverbial customer sea. Mac Indie Marketing Blog: Fishing For The Big Picture Dan does a good job of […]

Open Source Obligations

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

One of the beautiful aspects of open source software development is that individual contributors are, generally speaking, under no obligation to contribute their work. People who find time on their hands, and an inspiration to do something great, write some code and share it with the world. End of story. Or at least, that’s the […]

FastScripts 2.5

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Today I released an updated version of FastScripts with some pretty cool features and bug fixes: Now supports running plain-text .applescript files The FastScripts menu icon can now be changed to a custom color Alter appearance of menu so it doesn’t have rounded top corners on 10.6 Bug Fixes Fix glitches with “Smart Switching” on […]

Payback Time

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Several weeks ago, I put together a seat-of-my-pants promotion called One Finger Discount. Over the course of a week, I facilitated the listing of software being offered at a 20% discount for a limited time. I did this because I was inspired to leverage the enthusiasm for software generated by MacHeist into something that might […]