For the next 24 hours (well, 23.8 as of this writing), On The Job is going to be available through the MacUpdate Promo. Check it out for a great deal if you were thinking about purchasing On The Job. I think macZot did a pretty good job helping new people find out about our software, so I hope this does the same for a slightly different audience.
The people at The Apple Blog were nice enough to write a review of On The Job. Check it out!
Ever wish you could navigate between mailboxes in Mail using just the keyboard? Me too! The good news is, I just figured out how to do it - our good old friend Shift-Tab. With a message in the messages list select, just hit shift-tab, and bingo, you’ve managed to get your currently selected mailbox to now be selected with a lovely blue color. Now you can use the arrow keys to navigate around. Hitting Tab again will bring the focus back to the messages list. How it took me so long to discover this I will never know.
I’ve been playing with the public beta release of David Watanabe’s new application, XTorrent today and I have to say, I’m impressed. If you’re looking for a bittorrent application, I suggest you try it out. XTorrent lets you specify sites to search in an integrated web browser, and is smart enough to know when you’ve clicked on a torrent file, adding it to the downloads. Goodbye torrent files all over my desktop! I’ve had a few minor problems (downloads from the main search list not getting added to the download manager?), but that’s to be expected. For a public beta it seems very stable. From a development standpoint, it must have been nice to be able to take advantage of a lot of the UI code from Acquisition, another very well designed application.
Also, I think this application gets the award for the quickest adoption of new iTunes 7 interface elements!
Today On The Job is being featured on macZOT. I was pretty happy with the results of putting Overflow up a few months ago, so I thought it was worth another shot. I think the biggest advantage is that it gives people a chance to check out the application that otherwise wouldn’t. So while I hope it sells well, what I really hope is that it lets new people discover On The Job!
Glenn from glennwolsey.com wrote a nice review of On The Job the other day. We liked it so much we decided to add a couple of licenses for On The Job to the prize pool for his Guess The MacPro Specs competition.
Derek, of 5thirtyone.com and uneasysilence.com fame, posted a nice review of On The Job today [link]. The only note I would add is that the new features he mentions for the next version might happen over a few smaller updates instead of one large one.
Anyway, if you have a minute, check out the review. Thanks Derek!
I just want to put a note here to announce that DanTV.com, my personal blog, is now up and running. It’s a place for me to put things that don’t really fit on this blog, which I intend to make more focused on Stunt Software and Mac development in general. DanTV is more about personal interests, and will probably be more of a “links to cool stuff” site.
Anyway, feel free to check it out!
After reading this post on lifehacker today about a simple two minute timer for all those Getting Things Done fans out there, I realized what I had to do. I couldn’t stand seeing Mac users left out in the cold when it comes to two minute timing utilities! To that end, I’ve created a little application, so just click here to download your Mac version of the two minute timer.
I don’t think it will become the next new Stunt product, but hopefully one or two people out there will find it useful. I even threw in Growl support, mostly because I’d never used Growl before and wanted to see how easy it would be to implement. The answer? Very very easy.
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