Note*spark = iPhone Notes Goodness

I initially bought Note*spark just to support Sho, but I’m starting to fall head over heels for this little notes app. It’s simple, yet robust, sync’s to and from the web service incredibly fast and its priced to sell ($1.99 intro pricing).

If you’re looking for a real notes app on the iPhone I encourage you to give it a shot.

Another Obfuscated Auto Launch Behavior

It drives me nuts when software menus aren’t logically ordered. Sure no one is perfect and I’m guilty of some super bonehead moves, but it sure feels like some of the design decisions made in some products intend to obfuscate control and thwart user desires.

I’m guessing the fear is that if Bridge isn’t on by default and the preference for controlling is too obvious, then no one will use it. Maybe it would be wise to consider the negative vibes this generates towards the app…

Targeting Flash Player 10 In Flex 3.2

It seems like there should be a simple elegant toggle button or drop down in the Flex compiler options allowing you to choose which version of Flash Player you’d like to target, but until that happens here’s a quick (1:33) “how to” video.
Go fullscreen to see the video in full 1:1 pixel clarity.

Yep, its old news, but its a great example of the type of quick and simple knowledge nugget you can share with Jing and I’ve got a new years resolution to do that a bit more often.

Jing Pro: The First Paying Customer

Whoot! I’m stoked to claim bragging rights as the very first paying customer for Jing Pro. That’s right for a modest $15 bones a year you can get some real time MPEG4-AVC (h.264) recording and transcoding goodness sans branding and I beat all you people to the punch! Slackers!! Ahem, well I did cheat and use insider connections, but its a dog eat dog world right. ;-)

Here’s the very first customer email to get sent out:

Finally some proof that it pays to know TechSmith’s Sales Manager Brian “Tour de” Lesperance (get a real golf game Tour):

It took a lot of effort by a lot of people to get this crazy little “what if” from a backyard project to full blow product–I’m just happy and proud to have played a small part. Thanks peeps–it was a fantastic ride (I’m affectionately flipping you all the bird right now). ;-)

If you want more info about Jing (free) or Jing Pro ($14.95 a year) check out Tony’s (Jing Product Manager) blog post or visit the various links sprinkled on this page.

Sometimes You See More Clearly When You’re Blind

Snatched up this little gem via a JD tweet:

I love standing a problem / argument on its head. Leave it to a blind guy to take a different tack that helps us see a universal humanist approach to accessibility. I’m still not sure how I feel about mandates (I worry about getting bogged down in the web’s infancy) or specific tech like screen readers, but I do think we’re getting closer to having the technology pieces that will help us build a richer and more accessible web (I’m thinking of the ocr stuff that Evernote does, the amazing video /image recognition research, the speech to text capabilites that Premiere has and the emergence of XMP).

Macworld Bound Jing Demo Machine

Tomorrow I’m heading out to San Fran for Macworld 09. I’ll be giving demos of Jing, my favorite TechSmith product, and yacking about video and visual communication. If you’re attending come on by and say hello–I’d love to chat. Oh, and if you’ve got any recommendations for for food and drink (ahem, beer) I’d love to hear them.

…uh, yah…I hate being subtle….we’ll be making a nice little announcement about Jing on Tuesday, January 6th. ;-)