Archive for November, 2009

The Perfect Candidate

Got some spam today. First the comedy, then the drama.
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Transcriva 2 Named Apple Staff Pick

Apple named Transcriva 2 (2.014) as a Staff Pick on the Productivity Tools section of their download site. It’s always nice to know the “Mothership” is watching.
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Talking Face Speech Synthesizer Demo

A question was posted on StackOverflow about whether the ability existed on the Mac OS to match a talking head or face to the spoken phonemes of the built-in speech synthesizer. The answer is: of course there is, it’s a Mac! I’ll show you how it’s done.
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Transcriva 2.014 Update

I released Transcriva 2.014 this morning. Transcriva is transcription software for your Mac.
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Canceling Privacy Assist and Asshole Tactics

Today I decided to cancel my “Privacy Assist” credit monitoring account through Bank of America. Fun times, fun times.
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Drag Effect In Action

Last week I posted my solution to the IB3-like drag-from-library-palette effect called “JLNDragEffectManager“. Today I released an update to XTabulator (2.002) that contains this effect when dragging rows to the desktop or a folder to create new files. It’s a perfect demonstration of how “drag effects” can be used for excellent user feedback in your UI. Take a look.
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XTabulator 2.002 Released

I pushed XTabulator 2.002 out the door today. It includes some bug fixes and a nice usability bonus. Take a look.
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“One Finger Discount”

I decided to participate in the “One Finger Discount” promotion. All Bartas Technologies products are 20% off with the coupon code “1FINGER” through Friday, November 13, 2009.
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