Month: March 2007

  • LicenseKeeper on Apple’s Macintosh Products Guide

    I was checking my web server traffic logs and discovered a very nice surprise this afternoon. Apple has graciously listed LicenseKeeper on the front page of their Macintosh Products Guide. Just in case Apple changes the page, here is a screen capture of the page: The page has March 14, 2007 as the listing date,…

  • Computer America Radio Show

    Craig Crossman’s Computer America Radio Show has invited me on their show for an hour-long interview. Craig’s assistant revealed that he is a Mac-head at heart and wants to chat about LicenseKeeper. I must admit, I’m pretty darn nervous. I have never been interviewed before and have never called a radio show. I was told…

  • Licensed to Use

    David Zizza has published a great overview of the many options available in the Mac software license management market. [LicenseKeeper] truly evokes the Mac-ness of software interfaces – Drag and Drop, Spot Light, Toolbar, great use of icons, easy-to-use, etc. An awesome feature is the Attachments, which allows to add highlighted email (such as registrations…

  • LicenseKeeper on The Mac ReviewCast

    LicenseKeeper got a nice mention by Jeff Powell in the podcast The Mac ReviewCast Episode 98.

  • LicenseKeeper 1.0.1

    The first LicenseKeeper maintenance release has been published. You can download it directly or use the “Check for Updates…” option under the LicenseKeeper main menu. This is an important maintenance release that fixes several critical bugs. It is recommended that all LicenseKeeper 1.0.0 users upgrade to this version. LicenseKeeper 1.0.1 Release Notes: Fixed: Crash related…

  • LicenseKeeper Release Recap

    Releasing a 1.0 product is an interesting, exciting, and exhausting experience for a software developer. I can’t remember a time where I worked as many hours in such a small time span and was not only willing to do it, but couldn’t wait to jump out of bed every morning to get started. The craziest…

  • Introducing LicenseKeeper 1.0

    After many months of development and hard work by the beta test team, LicenseKeeper 1.0 has finally been pushed out the door for release. The demo version can be downloaded from the LicenseKeeper product page and is available for purchase on the newly redesigned Outer Level website and online store. This is a very exciting…

  • Website Development Sandbox

    As the official release of LicenseKeeper 1.0 looms near, the new design for the Outer Level website has been in serious development over the past several days. There’s a large list of things to incorporate into a website that needs to sell commercial software. Credit Card processing, Support pages, Product Pages, and lots of marketing…

  • Sales Data on First 75 days of Wii Transfer

    Manton Reece has shared with us his sales data for the first 75 days of selling Wii Transfer. His graph clearly shows spikes (and dips) related to specific marketing and version release events. An interesting side note is that his beautiful graph was created with Keynote.