Those who have followed the Alfred development in the past year will know that we’ve discovered a lot through building our own community around it (possibly the most awesome community out there!) Last month, I gave a talk at Cambridge Geek Nights, sharing some tips, tricks and discoveries we’ve made while developing and marketing Alfred. [...]
Amazing launch party cake
It would be an understatement to say we’ve got great friends – they’re downright awesome! For our end-of-summer BBQ, which was also a bit of a deadline/launch party for the Alfred Powerpack, Lee made us an Alfred bowler hat shaped cake! What better way to celebrate having been recluse shut-ins for months, working away, than [...]
My new pal Alfred: Mac quicklaunch application
The past few days have been just a bit of a mad ride, following the launch of our Mac quicklaunch application, called Alfred, which garnered +2500 users in its first 48 hours. We created the Alfred App to fill our own need: A quicklaunch tool that can search your local computer as well as the [...]
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