Archive for September 2009
Journler Development Ceased Today
Jourlner is a terrific program that does a lot fo things. It an be used for note taking, including many types of media. It’s really awesome for brainstorming.
Everything is auto-saved, dated, and searchable. The program provides folders to organize your notes, including smart folders, there’s even a cool lexicon function.
Which is why it was sad to hear today when I went to check in on the status of Journler development and found a post from Philip Dow, the developer that he was ceasing development on the project.
It sounds like development was to consuming, without enough financial return. I could be wrong about this, but I wish Philip had considered a lower price for the program when he first priced it. It’s listed at 35$ right now, which, while it’s a useful product, seems like a lot for the niché it fills. Then again perhaps that wouldn’t have been sustainable either. I would have thought something around $10 would be more appropriate.
Regardless the program is wonderful, and I think a version is still available for download. If you have a chance I’d really suggest you check it out.
Apple Breaks Music Multitask Function In 3.1/ 3.1.1 Update
For some time a double click of the home button would bring up iPod music controls from anywhere in the iPod/iPhone OS. Now the tool appears to be working inconsistently.
While locked out a double click will work. But if not the double click will only work if a track is already playing. The behavior may be even more inconsistent apparently depending on what app is open at the time.
iPod Touch generation 1 owners are even more in a bind because that without independent audio controls, the old system provided the only way to quickly adjust the system volume.
Apple’s support forums are now lighting up with customers who are upset about the issue and hoping Apple takes notice and fixes it.
Forums discussing the issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151495&start=0&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10210314
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151438&start=0&tstart=0
