Justin Williams on lessons learned in his first few months as an indie developer working on his Mac software, Today.

I’ve officially been indie since the end of April and have had varying degrees of success…

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Bullfrog 1.2.2 has been released. This fixes several issues with high score submissions.

Download directly or use Check for Updates.

Release Notes

• Fixed: High score submission is now done in the background for better performance over slow connections.
• Fixed: Fixed bug in high score submission that could allow fake high scores.
• Fixed: Scores of zero points are no longer accepted as high scores.
• Fixed: Minor user interface improvements for the high score submissions sheet.
• Fixed: Help Menu item displays in-game help screen.

LicenseKeeper 1.4.3 has been released. Download it directly or use “Check for Updates” from the main menu.

For further details, check out the release notes.

LicenseKeeper 1.4.2 is now available. Use “Check for Updates” under the main menu or download directly. This is a free update and is recommended for all users.

LicenseKeeper now sports a new optional toolbar button for a one-click refresh of all applications’ versions and icons.

In addition to the copy serial number to clipboard shortcut (changed to Command-Shift-K), you can now also copy the registered name (Command-Shift-L) and email (Command-Shift-M) to the clipboard.

Due to popular request, there’s now a “Reveal App in Finder” item under the Product menu and in the contextual popup menu.

The email scanner has been updated to correctly detect serial numbers for Sandvox, Twitterrific, and VideoDrive.

Several small interface bugs have been fixed along with some memory leaks (thanks to LLVM Clang Static Scanner).

See the LicenseKeeper 1.4.2 Release Notes for further details.