Posted By Paul Kafasis on April 12th, 2004

Some users had a problem with Audio Hijack 2.1.1 and the Recording Output folder causing crashes. We’ve been working on getting this fixed since last week, and we are now happy to announced Audio Hijack 2.1.2. All users of Audio Hijack 2.1.1 should update immediately, as well as anyone running version 2.1 – as should be expected, this update is free for all registered users.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on April 5th, 2004

Audio Hijack 2.1.1, Audio Hijack Pro 1.3.0 and Nicecast 1.5.1 are all out today. They are your standard point releases, with mainly bug fixes & the like. Note that they all require MacOS X 10.2 now, so 10.1 users should not upgrade.

For the future, Audio Hijack Pro 2 is in development, and Detour 1.5 is getting close to release. Try out the latest Detour, and let us know what you think.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on April 5th, 2004

A big day of little updates. Updated today:

Audio Hijack – Now at version 2.1.1

Audio Hijack Pro – Now at version 1.3.0

Nicecast – Now at version 1.5.1

These updates are all free for registered users, so be sure to grab the latest versions. And if you’re not using one of these apps, why not? Try it out today! You can also read the full PR for these updates.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on April 2nd, 2004

As usual, Daring Fireball knows how to create a controversy. His latest makes the case that Software Usability is hard to do, and furhermore that Open Source Software developers can’t do Usability like Commercial developers can. Nobody is going to protest the first point, but the second naturally has a fair amount of the Linux crowd up in arms. Now we can spend all day arguing points on either side, but I prefer to present a simple, concrete example, without the goal of actually proving anything.That example being, Calendar software. Yes, boring ol’ Calendar software. Calendars have existed from the beginning of history, and Calendar software from the beginning of personal computing. Everybody already knows how to use a real world calendar, so digital versions shouldn’t be that much more complex. There is nothing technically challenging about creating Calendar software, any programmer can do it. So you wouldn’t think that designing good Calendar software would be all that hard of a task, right? I will let the following exhibits speak for themselves:Exhibit A, is “Calendar and Email” from Sun’s Java Desktop System (really Evolution from Ximian). Despite it’s name, Java Desktop System is actually a version of Linux, and supposedly one of the more usable ones at that. 

Exhibit B is Outlook 2003 from Microsoft. 

And finally, Exhibit C, is iCal from Apple. 

 Which one would you want to use?

Posted By Paul Kafasis on April 1st, 2004

We’re pretty busy, so our April Fool’s joke isn’t quite as elaborate as last year, but hopefully it got a laugh or two. What exactly are we so busy with? Expect incremental updates to Audio Hijack, Audio Hijack Pro, and Nicecast in the next week. After that? The long-awaited Audio Hijack Pro 2, hopefully by the end of May. Stay Tuned.