WebnoteHappy had actually existed for quite a while in private before the 1.0 release in May. While it was private, I tried a lot of different things to make it easy to use and integrated with your workflow. I got quite a bit of feedback too. That’s really important for making a good app I …

Matt Gemmell wrote in Losing Direction: One of my dreams is of course to do the shareware thing; start a little software company and get some well-focused, beautiful little apps out there, targeting niche markets and filling those needs as perfectly as I can engineer them to. That’s exactly my dream with Happy Apps and …

I just released WebnoteHappy 1.1 which adds support for secure communication over SSL to del.icio.us and uses the new del.icio.us API which will be required in July. Also I’m now support private del.icio.us bookmarks via a “Save privately to del.icio.us” command. I added importing of existing bookmarks for Firefox and OmniWeb users. WebnoteHappy also plays …

One of the problems of developing a non document-oriented app (like TextEdit or VoodooPad) is that it can be hard to test. You can’t just start with fresh new documents with File | New Document. A lot of times you want to test out new features like Import into a fresh environment so you can …

I’m trying to coordinate a CocoaDevHouse in Washington DC in July. It looks like the 15th is the best, although the 22nd is appealing since it would coincide with the next Iron Coder contest. You can’t beat two for one. :) If you’re interested in getting together with some fellow Cocoa programmers, either comment on …

About two years ago, my family and I put up a bird feeder so we could watch birds in our backyard. At first we had no birds. Zip. Nada. We hoped and prayed and did a little marketing by putting seeds all around it on the ground with aluminum foil. Birds are attracted by aluminum …

Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post is one of my favorite journalists. He covers personal technology for the Post and usually has good insights on Apple products. His latest column raving about the MacBook contained something that surprised me: the folks that make Parallels is in Herndon, VA. (You know, Parallels, that thing that lets …

I booked my WWDC 2006 travel plans this weekend. I’m flying my favorite airline JetBlue which is cheap, has in-flight personal satellite TV, and flies direct from Dulles (which is about 30 minutes west of me) to Oakland (which is about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco.) I’m going to have a roommate to share …

Something that kids have to learn is to share. And one way to this with computer time is to set a timer to limit each kids time. But a plain kitchen timer is sort of boring. On vacation, I decided to try out Voice Candy and it was a hit with the kids. For those …

Importing your bookmarks into WebnoteHappy is a good way to consolidate your bookmarks into one place where you can add notes and tag them. I’ve already got import from Safari bookmarks working and if you’ve got a browser that can export to XBEL (which is almost none) then that works too. I’m working on importing …