Mar 28
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My apologies for the blog being kind of silent for the last 9 months or so. I’ve had work up to my eyes and there just wasn’t a whole lot of time to post anything.
Lots of stuff have happened since the 3.0.1 release of Salling Clicker. A number of smartphones models based on Symbian 9+ have been released (or announced) by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola(!). The Broadcom folks appear to have lost their grip on the Bluetooth stack market for Windows (for better or for worse—as a result we’ve seen the rise of stacks from Toshiba and IVT/BlueSoleil). An increasing number of phones now come with built in WiFi capabilities. Windows Vista was finally released and Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and Windows Mobile 6 appear to be just around the corner.
These are all things that need to be addressed in an application like Salling Clicker. In addition, there are features to add. Lots of work but I have a feeling something might be ready for release pretty soon now…
Jun 01
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PCWorld.com digs Salling Clicker 3. We’re in good company, too! Some of the other cool products awarded are Intel Core Duo, Newsgator FeedDemon, Google Earth, and Xbox 360. Many thanks to the kind folks at PCWorld.com!
Check out the whole list here (Salling Clicker at place 86):
http://pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125706,pg,13,00.asp
Meanwhile, we’re working on a follow-up version. There’s some really cool stuff in there that I’m dying to share with you when it’s ready!
Nov 09
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Sometimes, I hear about people doing cool things with Salling Clicker. You know, things that are a bit out of the ordinary. I hope to cover some of these in a series of posts here on the blog. Let me know if you have an interesting Clicker story of your own to share!
Anyhow, a recent post on the Make blog pointed me to an interesting contraption known only as the “iTunes Speaker Thingy”:
Dale writes “This is an enclosure which holds and powers an Airport Express and a set of attached speakers to wirelessly stream music from iTunes. It also incorporates a Palm T|X which acts as an LCD wirelessly remote for iTunes using the Salling Clicker remote control software. The setup provides a nice set of compact wireless speakers for any spot with AC power that’s in Wi-Fi range of your home network.”
Oct 27
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Over at Shirt Pocket Watch, my buddy Dave Nanian blogs about a long-standing bug in OS X Tiger that has an unpleasant impact on his SuperDuper! disk cloning product and his customers’ experience:
“This is really frustrating for our users, because things don’t work in a mysterious (and ungrammatical) way. And it’s frustrating for us, because it makes us look bad, incompetent and/or lazy. Honestly, we’re not.”
I have had similar experiences and feel for Dave in this situation. Bugs and shortcomings in software out of our control have the potential of making our products look bad, frustrate customers, and cause quite a lot of otherwise not required support work.
Dave, by the way, is the hardest working indy-developer I know, and I can highly recommend his SuperDuper! to those who need a disk cloning tool. Check it out; it’s good stuff.
Oct 23
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Over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, David Chartier describes the experience of controlling his iMac around the whole apartment using a Palm T|X and Salling Clicker over his Airport Express network. He seems to be liking it!
Helpful Hint: When connecting to Salling Clicker over a wireless network, make sure your computer’s firewall isn’t blocking TCP-port 52131. Take care of this from System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall.
Oct 11
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Let me introduce myself and this blog. I’m Jonas Salling, and I run Salling Software, a small software company with what I think are really cool products. In this blog, I’ll be writing about things that catch my interest and, of course, about Salling Software and its products.
Stay tuned! And welcome.
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