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Aug 26, 2003
iRooster

food for thought

Why I develop software in my free time: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly...

Aug 25, 2003
iRooster

wake from sleep, redux.

A few quick things to toss out there. iRooster 2.0 will, without a doubt, be Panther-only. I have zero clue what the timeframe is for that right now. For the time being, I think I have to use the kludgy PMU property setter interface (blergh). From...

Aug 23, 2003
iRooster

Wake from Sleep

Well, it looks like Wake from Sleep is finally working properly, at least under most best-to-good-case scenarios. I am not entirely sure how much abuse it can take quite yet, so I need to keep plugging away at that. On the bright side of things, ...

Aug 21, 2003
iRooster

:-)

I am officially a professional shareware developer now. I had my first few sales today. This is really cool. :-)

Aug 18, 2003
iRooster

iRooster 1.0 Now Available

iRooster, a Mac OS X-only application, allows you to quickly and easily create alarms to wake you up in the morning. Create a special playlist in iTunes for waking up, or use any of the pre-existing iTunes playlists: iRooster will play back your L...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

eSellerate

The Mac OS X shareware application that I have been working on, iRooster, is done. Well, that is, except for the lovely business of integrating the eSellerate engine into it. I have to say, the eSellerate people have been really cool, and really h...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

Just about 1.0

Ok, almost there. I think I crossed the last big hurdle with getting iRooster ready for official 1.0 GM status. This is cool: my first real piece of shipped software (beating out this wee little office suite I worked on last summer for first relea...