I’ve been so busy working on the next release of MarsEdit that I haven’t had a lot of time to do much else, aside from my normal second job as head of customer support!<\/p>\n
\nBut I’ve been seeing a lot of exciting things happening, and I want to help spread the word, along with my modest commentary. This is going to sound sort of like an annual holiday letter. And in a way, it is one, even if it only covers the events of the past few weeks, and even if it’s not about my family. Well, it’s about my indie development family.\n<\/p>\n
\nGus Mueller<\/strong>, developer of VoodooPad<\/a> and more recently Acorn<\/a>, has reached a milestone in the development of his business, Flying Meat. He just announced that he has hired his first part-time employee<\/a>. Congratulations, Gus. I’m sooooooo jealous.\n<\/p>\n \nChris Liscio<\/strong> quit his full-time, stable job, and took a leap into the indie pool<\/a>. Chris is the author of the Apple Design Award Runner-Up application Fuzzmeasure Pro<\/a>, apparently a must-have for audio acoustic analysis. Lots of luck to Chris moving forward. Here’s to a break-even first year!\n<\/p>\n \nRogue Amoeba<\/strong> also knows a thing or two about building impressive audio applications, and they’ve just updated Nicecast<\/a> with Leopard support. Nicecast makes it easy, no scratch that, makes it possible<\/em> to transmit streaming audio from your Mac to just about anywhere in the world.\n<\/p>\n \nJon Trainer<\/strong>, one of my developer buddies from here in the greater Boston area, has just released a significant update to his LicenseKeeper<\/a> software. The application is dedicated to keeping track of all of your software registration codes. Which will need organizing once you’ve added all these killer indie products to your virtual shelf!\n<\/p>\n \nIconFactory<\/strong> has been hard at work with partners Panic<\/strong> and ARTIS Software<\/strong>. A few weeks ago they came out with an incredible update to CandyBar<\/a>, designed to both organize your icon collection, and facilitate replacement of system icons and dock graphics at your discretion. Yesterday they struck again again with an update to xScope<\/a>, an incredibly intuitive and powerful on-screen measurement and design assistant.\n<\/p>\n