Archive for the 'Red Sweater News' Category

Thank You For Playing

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Thanks to everybody who participated in this holiday season’s Wishes Do Come True promotion.
In all, I counted at least 80 participants, which far exceeds the expectations I had going into this. Being able to grant the wishes of 12 lucky participants was a great mood-lifter for me, and judging by the reaction of the winners, [...]

FastScripts 2.5

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Today I released an updated version of FastScripts with some pretty cool features and bug fixes:

Now supports running plain-text .applescript files
The FastScripts menu icon can now be changed to a custom color
Alter appearance of menu so it doesn’t have rounded top corners on 10.6
Bug Fixes

Fix glitches with “Smart Switching” on Snow Leopard 10.6
Fix processing of [...]

Wishes Do Come True

Monday, December 21st, 2009

I don’t use Twitter as an official support avenue. It’s simply not possible to conduct effective support when limited to 140 characters per transaction. But it’s great for staying casually in touch with existing and potential customers. To try to stay as connected as possible, I monitor Twitter for mentions of my company name and [...]

You Should Be Blogging

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Starting a blog changed my life. Before Red Sweater Blog, nobody knew who I was, nobody cared what I was working on, and nobody (relatively speaking) bought any of my products.

I’m not saying the blog changed everything overnight, but my first post, on June 24, 2005, set the stage for what has been an exciting [...]