Monthly Archives: December 2006

This is good news. Follow the link above to find out about the changes happening to RubyCocoa. It has jumped from 0.50 to 0.90 and the changes are good. And with RubyCocoa being included in Leopard and with Apple giving it support, RubyCocoa is on its way up.

As a Christmas present to all, infiniteNIL is participating in the MacSanta promotion. So now’s your chance to get PackRat at 20% off as well as PhoneWord. Just enter the coupon MACSANTA when you purchase. Merry Christmas!

I’m considering developing a client for Basecamp similar to PackRat. If you’d be interested in such a product, let me know. I’d also like to know what you think it should do and what features it should have. I think this product has even more potential than PackRat and I’d love to get some feedback.

Freddy Adu, the teenage soccer star of the MSL, has been traded from D.C. United to my local team, Real Salt Lake. This is great news. Freddy hasn’t received much playing time in D.C., but of the little time he has had, he has shown flashes of brilliance. In Salt Lake, I’m sure he’ll receive all the playing time he wants and we’ll see him grow into a true superstar. I know I’ll be going to some Real Salt Lake games next year.

I just released PackRat 0.94. The big thing for this release is editing reminders. Now you can add, delete, and edit your reminders. A lot of people have been waiting for this and I hope you like it.

At this point in PackRat existence, you can now view and edit all your Backpack data, with the exception of your Backpack calendars. We are very near a 1.0 release. All that remains is to polish up some things.

Going forward I want PackRat to take full advantage of the the Mac platform. This means things like Spotlight support, Applescript support, Address Book and iCal integration, iPod syncing, and whatever else makes sense. I love the Mac and want to take full advantage of the platform. That is why PackRat is Mac only.

I also want to add things that Backpack doesn’t do right now. Things like searching and deleting all completed list items and anything else you and I can think of to make it more fun and easier to use.

I’ve also decided that releases past 1.0 will continue to be free updates. The price of PackRat is meant to reflect its potential to take advantage of the Mac platform and it hasn’t done that yet. Until I think it has, updates will continue to be free. If you haven’t purchased a license yet, I encourage you do so and support me in this endeavor. You will get your money’s worth and if enough of you do, I will have more time to make PackRat better and in less time.
Eventually, I will be able to write other applications that you and others will enjoy.

Enjoy editing your reminders offline.