Behind the Scenes at Birdsoft LLC…
My silly New Years Resolution this year was that it was the “Year of Golf”. It was a fun little game I played so that I can hype up the fact that I want to play a little more golf and hopefully get back to the level I was right out of college. Don’t worry…
Well, what I really had thought would be a pretty quick Update with some really cool features and a lot of the Ulti-Planner leftovers caught up turned into a longer update with a lot of cleaning up done. A couple of the new features made it in but a lot of them are being held over for 3.30 which…
I watch the market very closely for all mobile phones and obviously mostly Smartphones. And besides reading all the news sites, reports, and blogs a great tool is to watch the real market around you. And what really is one of the best judges for me is whether or not my friends and family have…
I have purchased a Mac Mini for iPhone Development. I have played with Macs a bit the past few years, but never really sitting and doing anything for long or trying to accomplish anything on it… So I did spend part of today setting it up and trying it out. It was an interesting experience. The…
Couple of things right off the bat. 1. I am heavily considering developing for the iPhone which will require a significant investment, so I do see potential and do think that some things the iPhone does are very very good. 2. I am also obviously heavily WM biased, since I have lived and breathed the…
A post over at one of my Favorite Mobile Blogs (JustAnotherMobileMonday.com) got me thinking. Why is the media being so harsh on Windows Mobile. A lot of Bloggers and Media are hard on WM and how it is not Innovating. I know some of it is “fanboy” type attention from mobile guys that believe another OS(iPhone,…
In about 2003 after the success of my Student Planner “The Dog Ate It” I decided I have the development skills that I could easily compete with the “Big Boys” in the Personal Information Manager(PIM) world on Pocket PC(PI and AF). I had actually been around some of the development boards a couple years earlier…
Ok, I dont want to scare anyone off by being so open that there is only one guy at Birdsoft and he is wearing many hats… Dont think your support or product quality will suffer from this… The truth is a lot of the companies, even ones that are percieved as ‘big’ in our rather small…
Birdsoft is now located in the 4th bedroom of our house in Cottage Grove Wisconsin, just outside of Madison. We recently moved here from Stoddard Wisconsin which is right on the Mississippi and right in the middle of where all that rain fell and flooded this summer(Our house didnt get affected). Stoddard is only six…
Welcome to Birdsoft. Birdsoft is basically a one man Software House with a mobile and desktop software catalog that has grown to be quite popular in the Windows Mobile world. Our History… It started out just a hobby as I was lead developer on a couple of pretty cool Windows Desktop applications. The first…