Happy New Years! I’ve been feverishly working the past week on WebnoteHappy. I just uploaded a new beta of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b17. I had hoped to have a final candidate release by now, but good food, I mean good apps, take time to prepare. :) Here’s what’s new: 1. The webnotes are now stored in …

Gus – who I met at WWDC last year – has a great post on his blog titled How to Become an Independent Programmer in just 1068 days where he explains how he’s become a full-time Mac Indie gradually over the past few years. I think it is great that the Mac community supports independent …

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. For me, it was pretty relaxing and it was great to see all my relatives. I rested my brain by not thinking about code, but I did talk about WebnoteHappy with some of my relatives that had heard that I was writing some software. They seemed to think it …

I’m fighting off a cold, but that won’t stop my efforts, only slow them down a bit. I’ve got most of Smart Folders done and I’ll be rolling out the first private beta of WebnoteHappy Pro soon. So if you’re interested in helping me out by beta testing the Pro version, send me an email …

Mike Butler wrote in and said that the new build of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b16 was not getting the title from the webpage when he used the bookmarklet. I just did some debugging and found the problem. The old bookmarklet is not compatible with the newest build. So everyone, please install the new bookmarklet. You can …

This latest release of WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0b16 features improved support for Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, and other browsers. Camino and OmniWeb join Safari and NetNewsWire in getting hotkey support, which is the quickest way to add and edit webnotes. Firefox and all other browsers can now use the bookmarklet seamlessly to webnote the current page. (Previously …

Mike Rundle over at Business Logs wrote Either Support Safari, Or Lose Customers: If you care about the Macintosh user base, then you should care about Safari. If you don’t care about Safari, then you’re saying you do not care about the Mac user base. It’s quite simple. … People don’t switch to Firefox because …

Congratulations to Brent and Sheila Simmons for winning an Eddy for NetNewsWire 2. He won one for NetNewsWire back in 2003 as well. NetNewsWire is one of those must-have Mac apps that I use every day. I’ve got 394 feeds and counting. I am definitely way more informed nowadays. It was just too hard to …

Jason Santa Maria wrote on his blog about Markmaking: Ok, so I finally decided I want to start using a bookmarking tool. I have a wealth of bookmarks from the past 8 or so years that I’ve painstakingly kept organized and categorized in a variety of browsers (Safari being the latest). This works out great, …

Apple and PayPal are having a promotion: You buy an iTunes Gift Certificate for a loved one and you get free songs for yourself. Cool! The only thing you have to do is buy it through PayPal. So if you give a $20 gift certificate, you get 10 free songs, which is like getting $9.90 …