http://ericsagalyn.com Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en March has started out with a bang for projects I'm involved with. First, Drync was rated the 4 out of 5 mice by MacWorld Magazine, making it their top rated Wine App!  My favorite quote: With its slick interface and a reliable search engine, Drync Wine lets you keep track of the ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/03/drync-becomes-macworlds-highest-rated-app-pubic-radio-tuner-on-all-things-considered/ As of today, the Public Radio Tuner is the most downloaded free music app in the store. It's currently three places in front of another awesome music app, Pandora. In fact, it's the 18th most downloaded app, right behind some app called Facebook (and who has heard of ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/02/public-radio-tuner-the-number-one-music-app/ There's been a lot of talk this week about Google's new friend finding service, Latitude. As expected, there are two camps in the debate around the service: those people who think it's awesome (they likely think everything else Google has ever done is awesome, too) and those who think Latitude ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/02/not-much-latitude-why-always-on-will-never-take-off/ I have to say I was SUPER excited to find out this morning that Drync Wine's icon is featured in the new iPhone commercial, "Read." This is awesome for Drync, which is really starting to get it's wings On a personal note, this isn't the first app icon to appear in Apple ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/01/drync-is-in-the-new-iphone-commercial/ So US News and World Report, the purveyor of fine business/college related lists, has made a list of the "30 careers that offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction." And what made the list? Well, Usability Experience Specialist, of course. Really?  I mean, seriously? I've secretly always considered my profession to be the ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/01/usability-experience-specialist-one-of-the-best-jobs-of-2009-really/ I read today over on techcrunch that the Chipotle iPhone app has been removed from the store due to "request timeouts" (or, in layman's tems, it's been removed because it's pissing off tons of customer who can't get their burrito orders through). It's funny – well, not ha-ha funny – ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/01/free-iphone-app-and-your-serve/ My good friend Tim is in the midst of putting together The 21 Day of Wordpress. Tim is a fantastic Wordpress developer (among other things) so there's no doubt he's going to have some tips and tricks that are worth their weight in gold. So far this looks ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/01/21-days-of-wordpress/  I was super excited to get involved in this project as the "user experience" part of the team. To me, as a huge NPR fan, this is the ultimate iPhone application – it streams tons and tons of stations directly to your iPhone!   It's the one app I wish ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2009/01/public-radio-tuner-11-released/ After much tinkering and adding, I finally have a site I feel comfortable releasing to the public. Happy day! Ok, for the first post, this is super lame. For that, I appologize. I'm just knee deep in client work and Drync stuff at the moment. You know, I had ... http://ericsagalyn.com/2008/11/welcome/