I’ve just finished uploading yaTimer 2.5.2 to the web site, this is a free upgrade to all customers. This is a bug fix release with just one new feature (that I’ll announce in another blog post in the near future). You can get the update from the yaTimer upgrade page, this update won’t be available in the automatic update system for a few more weeks.

When I got my new iPhone I (obviously) started to look for apps for it. When looking for apps on the web I found a remote desktop client for the iPhone, they wanted something like $10 for it – an extremely cheap price for a sysadmin tool. I think a fair price for something like this is at least $50, if my site was down and I didn’t have a choice I would gladly pay, for $25 I would have bought it just in case – for $10 this is a no-brainer. So I opened the App...

The number one complaint I get about yaTimer is that it doesn’t minimize to the notification tray, this is especially painful for me because yaTimer actually can minimize to the notification tray and has been able to do it almost since the first version. Since a lot of people can’t find the minimize to tray options it’s obviously my fault – and because I see routinely in the uninstall survey it’s very likely this is costing me sales. So, starting at version 2.5.2 minimizing to the notification tray will be the default behavior, if you don’t want to...

In the blog post titled Twitter! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Eric Sink said: Fast forward to today.  Computers, by and large, are still designed for geeks.  This is why we all buy T-shirts that say "No, I will not fix your computer".  The genius of the iPad is that it cannot get things like viruses.  It is a closed platform.  You can't put apps on it.  You can't write and distribute software for it without Apple's permission.  This is why geeks hate it and normal people will love it. He think that...