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We’ve taken the shackles off and now everyone can have a go.

We’ve been using SyncBridge for nearly a month now and we’ve seen the good and the bad of iCal and SyncServies for more than 6 months now and come through with a smile.

So it’s out. In Public Beta. It’s free to use for the next month and after that, the subscription starts but why am I telling you all of this – it’s free for a month so GO TRY IT OUT

I’m reminded of Aidan saying that allowing others to use SyncBridge was akin to letting his kid outside unsupervised and that is certainly the way we feel now as we had several attempted downloads even before the links went active.

This is a big deal in many ways.

• It’s the first commerical RubyCocoa app. Ever. No, really.
• It’s the first commercial Nitro app (apart from those written by Nitro’s creator).
• It’s the first commerical app using ZenObfuscate.
• Infurious is the first Mac software company in Northern Ireland.
• If Aidan is the father of SyncBridge, then that makes me the bearded Auntie…..



Related posts:

1. Moving from WEBrick to lighttpd/FastCGI in Nitro
2. One Dot Oh – the beta ends!
3. RubyCocoa (and SyncServices)
4. RubyCocoa OK to bundle

Aidan posted about making technology (and concepts) a bit more accessible to the rank and file of internet users. There is a followup which says that a big problem with accessibility of new technology is the language barrier. In Europe alone, most people seem to speak their own language and English (except the English, who speak neither).

Why would you ignore the 80-odd million people in Germany? What about France? Spain? China? They have money too!

We’ve secured the French and Spanish translators….a few more to go I reckon!

My buddies Neil and Nick cause havoc in the streets of London while showing their own particular (Star Wars) fanatacism.

Google CL2 was released today and ushered in a new age of fun and frolics for Google critics. Now they not only know what you want (Google Search), they know what you have (Google Desktop), what you buy (Froogle) and where you are (Google Maps) but now when you’re going to be there (Google Calendar). Privacy loons and criminals are again shouting about how this will…uh…be scary and stuff.

Why do I care?

Well, SyncBridge works with calendars of course. Google hasn’t released their API yet but we’ll see what we can do about synchronising it. There’s also not much provision for secure transfers of private calendars in CL2. I’m sure this is all stuff they’ll fix.

Standalone it’s not bad at all. Its pretty – long URLs in public calendars look ugly but that’s a minor niggle. If they get with the program and manage to release an API sometime soon, we’ll work with them

Good to see Omni are following our lead and giving insight into their company via a Weblog.

Seriously though, it’s hard to imagine infurious without OmniGraffle. If only Omni would make it easy for us to collaborate on Graffles over the ‘net.

And if they could stop the slowdown I kept experiencing with OmniWeb, I’d switch back.

Addendum … now I have a MacBook Pro, I’m going to give OmniWeb another go.