http://brainmurmurs.com/blog Guerrilla computing in the mountains of Seattle Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have been spending some time working on general performance improvements in Mentat. You should be able to see the fruits of our labors immediately. Both the Agenda page and the Projects page have received some love. The loading times have been drastically improved, and we should no longer ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/04/11/mentat-performance-wins/ There has been a lot of bitching about the terms under which developers can sell their iPhone applications through the App Store. I would like to share my opinions on the matter, coming from the perspective of a developer with experience bringing multiple commercial products to the handheld market. Sales channels ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/17/editorial-app-store-terms-of-service/ Development on iMentat is going *fast*. It is very likely we'll be ready for beta testers by the end of next week, if there's actually a way for us to distribute the builds to people. *Screenshots have been removed on the advice of a colleague until we get some clarification ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/08/imentat-update/ The Mentat BlackBerry OTA download links are working again. Turned out that RIM had it set up to secretly split the extremely important .cod file into pieces once it reaches a certain size and then disguise it after building. After discovering this hidden gem of arcane knowledge, we devised a ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/07/blackberry-ota-issues-resolved/ Before we get to the meat of this post, let me say: Hello! My name is David Brown, and I've joined the fine team here at Brain Murmurs. On to the post. One of the fun things about my job is that now my interest and my vocation are lined up. ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/07/another-perspective-on-the-iphone-sdk/ I've had about half a day to look at the iPhone SDK and start migrating our iMentat code over to it from the toolchain, and I already have a few observations to make about it. This. Is. AWESOME. Working with an actual SDK, and a debugger, with actual documentation, just about made ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/07/first-thoughts-on-the-iphone-sdk/ Mentat BlackBerry OTA download links stopped working yesterday and are we are diagnosing it now. In the meantime, here are desktop download links as an option for anyone who wants to download the latest build now: *OS 4.2 Desktop Download Link http://brainmurmurs/products/mentat/v42desktop.zip *OS 4.1 Desktop Download Link http://brainmurmurs.com/products/mentat/v41desktop.zip Just download from that link to your computer ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/06/ota-outage-desktop-download-now-available/ We're back with site improvements, product announcements, Mentat for OS X pre-registration, a new product, and more! New Mentat BlackBerry features and pricing After listening to user feedback, we have added several new features to our Mentat BlackBerry application: Automatically convert emails or SMS messages on your BlackBerry to Mentat tasks. Fully editable task ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/05/mentat-status-updates-product-updates-and-announcements/ We're making good progress on our native Mentat application for the iPhone, currently known simply as 'iMentat.' As this point, we have native build that that can log, display a navigable list of projects, and download and display task summaries. More to come soon, we are making rapid progress. http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/02/17/iphone-update/ Download the latest build here to upgrade (now is a great time to get started too if you haven't tried it yet!). New features added: * Edit task descriptions and summaries from the BlackBerry. Just scroll to the text you want to edit, hit delete (or alt-delete to clear the whole field) ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/02/14/mentat-blackberry-13-available/