Archive for the ‘Public Appearances’ Category

More Haikus for Our 5th Birthday!

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Mac Geek Gab wrapped up its poetry contest. Five winners got their choice of SmileOnMyMac applications to celebrate our 5th birthday. I posted the first three winners last week. Here’s a couple more.

(Also, I have to compliment Bryan Chaffin at Apple Weekly Report. For the birthday giveaways on that show, Bryan used D&D* dice to select the winners! LOL :-) )

rosiehat.jpgRon Miller wrote this spare gem of a poem:

Form meets function here
What I can think, I can Mac
Beauty still within

And from Joshua Horne, an epic haiku (is that a contradiction in terms? Oh well…)

A story in haiku

Back in the dark times,
Computing gave no delight
I was on Windows.

A friend saw my plight
He enlightened my poor soul
“Get a Mac”, he scolds.

iMac? Mac Mini?
What could all of these names mean?
I said, “I’ll start small.”

I received my Mac;
It was so white and so slick.
Mouse, Keyboard and all.

Was simple at first
But issues always arise,
Who could now guide me?

I needed some help,
I turned to podcasts for it,
Two gabbing Mac geeks.

Once I was clueless,
Computing was not my thing.
Then a Mac I bought.

Mac Geek Gab taught me;
I’m now a master of Mac,
Where once I was not.

Thanks to everyone who wished us the best on our 5th anniversary. “Five years and still smiling” as we say!

* D&D = Dungeons & Dragons (but everyone knows that, right?)

Guest Appearance on Your Mac Life

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I’m in New York City this week, and decided to take a detour up to Connecticut to visit with Shawn and Lesa King, co-hosts of Your Mac Life, the Mac talk show of which SmileOnMyMac is a proud sponsor.

I had the fun of being a live in-studio guest on the show, talking about SmileOnMyMac, how we got started and my favorite products. I also got to experience the thrill of riding around the backroads of Connecticut on the back of Shawn’s motorcycle. We took a long tour from Danbury down to Westport. It was a beautiful day, not too cold. I borrowed riding gear from Lesa, in which I felt ready for a cameo on Battlestar Galactica.

Jean & ShawnThe show is available as a streaming audio file at the Your Mac Life site until April 22nd. You can also subscribe to Your Mac Life at Audible.com, which makes it possible for you to download episodes to load onto your iPod.

SmileOnMyMac at Metromac and LIMac

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Earlier this month, I went to New York to give a demo of our products at two Mac user groups, MetroMac in the city and LIMac on Long Island.

It was a great chance to meet current customers and hopefully win over new ones. (And I got to pretend to be Britney Spears with the headset microphone.)


IMG_4889.jpg

With Chris Bastian, MetroMac president, at the Apple Store in Soho

IMG_4890.jpg

LIMac demo: “Better Living Through Software”

jean-005.jpg
With George Canellis, LIMac board member and Your Mac Life fan.

PageSender is 5 years old!

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

(That’s like 50 in shareware years!)

PageSender was launched 5 years ago today. The “fax software that really works” was released by Smile Software (the “smile” in SmileOnMyMac) at a time before fax capability was built into Mac OS X. Though faxing was later added in OS X 10.3 (Panther), PageSender’s full feature set, stability and excellent customer service made it the favorite of reviewers and users. As Macworld put it, “one application is a shining light in a field dominated by dim products.”

What’s a birthday without a cake? And candles! And singing! (And exploitation of children for commercial purposes!)

(View the video at YouTube.)

Coming May 8th: PageSender 4 with some great new features, including spam fax filtering and PDF cover pages!

(Those who know me will recognize the sacrifice I made getting a photogenic white-frosted cake, rather than chocolate…)

PDFpen Inside the Beltway

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Who knew that there was an Apple Store in Pentagon City? Who knew Pentagon City was in Arlington, VA? Our friend Patrick, that’s who:

PDFpen in Apple Store Pentagon City

TextExpander is a Star

Monday, February 19th, 2007

TextExpander on MacBreak

TextExpander is featured on MacBreak. Merlin Mann of 43 Folders is a big TextExpander fan, and he shows host Leo Laporte what makes TextExpander so powerful and, ultimately, so cool. Leo actually says “It is the single best productivity tool on the Mac, right after Quicksilver.”

Check out the segment. It’s a little under 9 minutes long, and you get a glimpse of the wacky uses that Merlin has for TextExpander amongst his 700+ snippets!

Now that TextExpander is a big star, will deign to hang out with PDFpen and the rest of the gang in the Productivity Suite? :-)

PDFpen from Coast to Coast

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

More PDFpen photos! Here’s Jessica in the Apple Store in Palo Alto:

Jessica with PDFpen in Palo Alto

Sean and Andy at the Apple Store in NYC:

Sean and Andy with PDFpen in NYC

Going to the Apple Store to pick up one of those cute color iPod Shuffles? Look for PDFpen on the shelves, and take a photo we can post. Send them to jean@smileonmymac.com.

Macworld San Francisco 2007

Monday, January 15th, 2007

We had a fantastic show this year! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say “hi”! It was great to meet customers in person. Here’s a couple of pictures from the booth: (I’ve posted more at Flickr.)
SmileOnMyMac Macworld team

The team photo, posed, before the exhibit hall opened. That’s Greg, Brian, Philip, Jean, Steve, Jane and Edward.
SmileOnMyMac Macworld booth

After the hall opened…. This is more what it felt like – busy!

PDFpen Retail Box Sightings (Cont’d)

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

OK, we might be getting a little obsessed with this… I’m down in San Francisco getting ready for Macworld, and made a little visit to the Apple Store while shopping for booth supplies in Emeryville:

PDFpen - Emeryville Apple Store

And here’s Greg in Corte Madera:
PDFpen - Corte Madera Apple Store

Watch this space. There will definitely be sightings at Macworld–PDFpen will be one of the goodies in the Macworld Speaker’s Gift Bags! And Dr. Bott will be selling the box at their booth. (S1912)

More PDFpen Retail Box Sightings

Monday, January 1st, 2007

When you have out-of-town guests, where do you take them? The Apple Store, of course. Over the holidays, my colleague Greg took his parents to The Apple Stores in Pleasanton and Walnut Creek, California, and look what they found:

Pleasanton Apple Store

Walnut Creek Apple Store

Send your PDFpen retail photos to jean@smileonmymac.com — if we post yours, you’ll get the SmileOnMyMac product of your choice with our compliments.