Andy Brice

Any year-end or Black Friday deals? 11/26/2024

Winterfest opens ~19 December, if you wait that long. http://www.artisanalSoftwareFestival.com/

What about creating a hierarchical CSV standard? 7/21/2024

Speaking as a software developer who has written CSV parsers, CSV is a farly horrible format, for all sorts of reasons, including: -loosely defined standard (e.g. doesn't specify text encoding) -diff...

Summerfest 2024 6/21/2024

It's that tiime of year again! 25% off many of your favourite crimping tools. Includes Tinderbox, Scrivener, DEVONthink, Scrapple and my own Hyper Plan and Easy Data Transform. Some of the software is...

Issue mounting Mac .dmg files on macOS 14.4 beta 2/12/2024

Just a heads up. There seems to be an issue mounting .dmg files containing licensing information on recent macOS 14.4 betas. Not sure if this applies to all .dmg files, or only those created with Drop...

Winterfest 2023 is now open 1/16/2024

Winterfest closes today. Last chance to get 25% off Hyper Plan, DevonThink, Tinderbox, Scrivener, Mellel, Easy Data Transform and more! https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/

Mellel 6 released (Mac only) 12/21/2023

Mellel is now for sale at 25% off at Winterfest: https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/#Mellel

Winterfest 2023 is now open 12/21/2023

Winterfest 2023 is on. Loads of quality software for Mac (and some for Windows) from independent vendors, at a discount. This includes my own Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan, which are on sale with...

HyperPlan is so great 11/27/2023

Thanks. ;0) -- Andy Brice https://www.easydatatransform.com https://www.hyperplan.com

Muse- An end, and a beginning 9/13/2023

I guess you can afford to be more self-indulgent when you have a VC suggar daddy. For a while, anyway. -- Andy Brice http://www.hyperplan.com

Muse- An end, and a beginning 9/13/2023

Dormouse wrote: >I thought that one of the things that might have hurt them was >"We've published over 100 hours of podcast discussions about >technology, design, and philosophy." Presumably this was...

Another one goes subscription 9/3/2023

Stephen Zeoli wrote: I wrote a blog post about Circus Ponies Notebook shuttering its doors: > >https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/circus-ponies-closes-shop/ Wow. 'Graceless' is a ve...

Another one goes subscription 9/2/2023

NickG wrote: Development and support stalled without explanation; support forums >filled with spam. Then there was a, possibly intended as humorous (it >wasn’t) communication with a cryptic re...

Another one goes subscription 9/2/2023

Stephen Zeoli wrote: The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a >developer I've witnessed. I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened? You should treat...

Another one goes subscription 9/1/2023

Amontillado wrote: I think I miscommunicated. I think subscription software should continue >to work in the event there is no company to renew the subscription with. I agree for desktop software. F...

Another one goes subscription 8/29/2023

Subscriptions is a hot topic amongst product developers. Most of my product developer peers have gone subscription. And it makes a lot of sense for web apps, where the vendor has ongoing monthly cost...

SummerFest2023 7/23/2023

satis wrote: >The only one I'm thinking of getting is Hookmark, to see how easily I >can employ deep links between documents from different apps (notes, >emails, PDFs). Hookmark integration might b...

OT - but maybe not entirely - warning about AI assisted deep fakes 7/20/2023

Haven't read the article yet, but aking has been with us probably as long as human history. Even before AI deepfakes you could edit a video for your own ends (e.g. take a quote out of context). So I t...

infoqube update 4/5/2023

>That quote was from 7 years ago... Numbering was change and IQ is now at >v122. My mistake. v1 still seems rather modest 7 years after v0.x though. Andy Brice

infoqube update 4/5/2023

Pierre Paul Landry wrote: >Big news, which folks here will most likely be interested in, is that as >of v0.9.90 IQ now supports Markdown !! Pierre The version number is a marketing decision. You h...

UltraRecall 3/8/2023

BTW I have idea which of those 2 applies to UltraRecall.

UltraRecall 3/8/2023

I think there is an important difference between not having new features added and not being maintained. As a vendor you run into diminishing returns adding new features into a mature product and it m...

[Software Recommendations Required] Outliner with multiple columns per node including numeric ones that can be summarised 3/8/2023

You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For example when creating a workbreakdown structure: https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html I'm no...

50% deal off Scrivener for the next few days 2/28/2023

Thanks for the kind words. But you do know you're going to set off @22111 again!

50% deal off Scrivener for the next few days 2/28/2023

Jon Polish wrote: Andy, I think Scrivener is doing exactly the same thing. The "lifetime" >deal is for version 3, so if you want to upgrade to 4, you pay for the >new version. > >At least that is ho...

50% deal off Scrivener for the next few days 2/28/2023

I'd really rather not engage in mudslinging and ad hominm attacks. But I feel I need to respond to some of these misinformed comments. Hyper Plan (dare I mention my product name) isn't an outliner, b...

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