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We’re going to WWDC 2006!

As Mat mentioned, we're making the trek from Sydney to San Francisco to attend WWDC this year. I'm really looking forward to it! :)

Following the meme: TLAF’s “State of the Union”

Mat and I decided we would chime in an publish some pretty graphs and statistics for The Little App Factory, since Gus Mueller, Martin Pittenauer and Allan Odgaard have already done it. :)

So here we go: "Pretty graphs and current direction"

I have a couple of things to add:

  • Connoisseur sales have been OK, but nothing stellar. Unfortunately, when I started my full-time work placement in July last year, I found the time I had available to do programming shrank by orders of magnitude. Things are under control now, and I'm currently working on a new version that will introduce some handy features and clean up the rough edges.
  • We only have a couple of products, but it's amazing how many other unrelated tasks take up our time (setting up JIRA, fixing the registration, crash reporter and update frameworks, tweaking the website, overhauling support and documentation, the beta program). It's incredibly easy to get lost in it all, and I find myself behaving like a headless chicken, running between each of the little projects.
  • I'm excited about the products we have in the pipeline (!). One of them is something I feel has been done and done again in the market, but never *quite* right. However, as Mat said, before we can start on this, we need to get the Connoisseur and iPodRip updates out.

Connoisseur & WWDC

I heard from a friend who's at WWDC that in a seminar on UI design, Connoisseur was featured as an example of great interface design! Nice. :)

Connoisseur Review at the Apple Blog

Gareth Potter over at the Apple Blog has reviewed Connoisseur 1.1.

Connoisseur 1.1 released

Last week, we released Connoisseur 1.1.

Among the notable features/enhancements/bugfixes:

  • It's much, MUCH faster!
  • You can now scale recipes
  • (Something I'm proud of) A MacOS X service that allows you to select text in a web page (or other app) and import that into Connoisseur as a recipe
  • Entering recipes should also be a lot easier

For an exhaustive list of changes (and I do mean exhaustive… it's huge!), look here.

Connoisseur 1.0.2

Connoisseur 1.0.2 is out.

What happened to 1.0.1? We did release it, but found a serious bug, so 1.0.2 was released! This release has a couple of new features, enhancements and a boatload of bug fixes. Most notably… it's much, much faster! For the full changelog, visit the product page. Enjoy…!

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