Archive for March, 2009

Bug – No Save on ShutDown

I’ve found a bug in the latest version, that may be causing some confusion.
Your changes are always saved automatically on closing HabitShaper.
But, if you’ve set HabitShaper to “Minimize to Tray on Close“, and if you don’t exit the program before shutting down/logging off/restarting, your changes will not be saved.
I am working on this. For now, [...]

Interview at Goal Geek

Just letting you all know that GoalGeek.com has posted an interview with me about HabitShaper.
It’s turned out to be a good summary of my philosophy for HabitShaper.
As the site name implies, Rick is a Goal Geek, meaning he is a great supporter of taking advantage of software to help us achieve our goals.
While you’re there, [...]

Small Spring Update

The tooltips/crosshairs are now available, and I hope they make it easier to see how you are progressing.
Also, I’ve added the “Minimize to Tray” options.
I find that I use the crosshairs constantly now that they’re working smoothly. It’s much faster than the old and clunky “move the rectangle” approach.
You can get the latest update through [...]

Spring Resolutions

Long ago, I used to think I could make people move New Year’s to the first day of spring. I thought all I had to do was convince a few people that it was more appropriate. They would then go on and convince others.
And so on…
Hey, I was 6.
I’ve toned that down quite a bit, [...]

“Evil Eye” Worries Some Visitors

It has come to my attention that some visitors with Internet Explorer receive scary looking warnings, or an evil looking eye icon in their status bar.
Even worse, some people have received a message about “There are both secure and nonsecure items in this page” when clicking on the Buy Now buttons.
Judging by my traffic records, [...]

Get Dropbox to Synchronize HabitShaper Across Multiple PCs

If you’re like most people, you will at some point need to check your targets for the day while you’re away from your own computer.
Which is why I am working hard to get the infrastructure working for this. In the next few days, I will release an update that will allow you to use DropBox [...]