The mystery of the famous Silverback app that nobody knew what it did is finally over. A post in their blog says this:
You can test your websites anywhere, without having to lug microphones or video cameras around. You could pop into Starbucks with your Macbook and run a usability test with a click of your [...]
ice crums
geekery 2.0
shareware
Finally: What is Silverback?
AppleInsider Exclusive: Delicious Library 2.0 Preview
As per Will Shripley’s buzz creation rules(Monster Marketing), Delicious Monster has given AppleInsider the exclusive on Delicious Library 2 upcoming March release ($40 a pop).
If pictures and words aren’t your thing, here is a video preview from TUAW taken at MWSF ‘08.
NewsFire goes free: I really need Anderson’s new book
Dave Watanabe’s NewFire RSS reader goes free just as NetNewsWire.
NetNewsWire is still king.
With everything going freeware, I am really going to need to read Chris Anderson’s new book “Free“.
(Via TUAW.)
Imaginary performance boosts
Brent Simmons:
I bet every software developer has seen this—release a new version, even one you know to be slower, and some people will thank you for the performance boost.
Perception is a bitch and people do buy into the numbers game. 1.14 > 1.1.3 thus faster.
I guess that’s why Microsoft doesn’t use numbers that much (2000, [...]
My Guess: SDK on Tuesday, but NO Consumer Update
The end of February is imminent and most importantly iPhone update is right around the corner(or delayed a couple of weeks). So instead of repeating what every one is saying, let me list a couple of things we should expect.
-The release will be geared towards developers: don’t expect iTunes prompting you to upgrade your [...]
SuperDuper! 2.5 Released!
SuperDuper! the great backup utility has been upgraded to be Leopard compatible. The cool thing is that the backup can live side by side with a Time Machine backup in the same drive. Among other changes, the interface has dropped the brushed metal(finally).
(Via Shirt Pocket Watch.)
Journler Changes Licensing
People are cheap. No matter how much money they make/have they will always want things free or try to steal things if they don’t perceive the value of it. I’ve never used Journler but have heard great things about it. It’s sad to see how cheap people really are. I am actually glad the developer, [...]
MarsEdit Updated to 2.1
Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater, jut updated my favorite blogging app MarsEdit. It has some interesting feature upgrades like:
-Improved Tagging(more Mac like)
-Better searching(fast even while testing it with 100 blog posts…even though the max recommended is 30)
-Save as draft to server (not a big deal for me since I don’t like the Wordpress back-end anyway).
But [...]