March 2011
2 posts
Discontinuing Contents
Dear Fuel Collective Fans,
After a bit of thinking and looking at the future of Fuel Collective and were we’re headed we have decided to discontinue Contents. We still love contents but we feel it no longer fits in with the plans that we have for Fuel Collective and so as of Today March 24, 2011 Contents will be removed from the site and web store.
If you have purchased Contents we will...
tinynow asked: I was wondering why you are switching away from paypal.
January 2011
2 posts
Mac App Store & Updates
Hello readers of the Fuel Collective Blog! We’re going to take about a few things including the Mac App Store and some updates that we’re doing.
Mac App Store
Okay, so unless you live in a cave without internet, you have probably heard about the launch of the Mac App Store. We haven’t talk much about our position on it because we weren’t sure what we thought. However...
Pochade
Hello lovers of Swatch,
Today over the next few hours we a preparing to change our application named Swatch to Pochade. Why this name change? Well to be clear and honest we got a Cease and Desist from Swatch AG for using the name Swatch. While we feel that our Swatch application doesn’t fall into the same category as clothing and accessories we have chosen to comply with their request. We...
November 2010
1 post
Updates, Contents 2.0, and New App
Hey everyone, time for an update from Fuel Collective! Boy, have we been busy, working on updates, new apps, updating apps, and support. Now I’ll start off by saying we’re sorry for the support delays that we have from time to time, we are working really hard to keep support queue times at a minimum and we’ll continue to work on this and try to being on some help as well,...
August 2010
1 post
Where is Swatch 2.0!
It’s on it’s way! But before it gets here, let’s talk about it (behind it’s back!). What has changed? Well, we completely redesigned Swatch to use a more “Mac Like”, cleaner, easier interface. There are now 6 ways to select the color you want, Loupe, CMYK Sliders, Color Wheel, HSB Sliders, RGB Sliders, and manually entering the color.
What else? We have added...
May 2010
2 posts
Developing Swatch 2.0
When you start developing a 2.0 version of your app, it’s like your kid graduating from high school. Either nothing really changes and the kid just goes to work, or you send him to college and then receive him a few years later, nearly unrecognized by his own mother by how much he changed.
As we love our apps we want the best for them, so we send them to college. For Swatch this meant...
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Swatch 2.0 - News
You may have seen our tweet (http://twitter.com/fuelcollective/status/13809299828) the other day with a little preview of what Swatch 2.0 will look like. We still have a ton of work to do on Swatch 2.0 but we wanted to share some insight with everyone. Swatch 2.0 has been completely rewritten from the ground up and has a few new features that I think everyone will enjoy. Some of which have been...
April 2010
2 posts
Making Permute
I’d like to talk a little about making Permute and what the process was like. Why Permute? I think it has been by far our best executed application in terms of both design and functionality. We did a lot of things right and learned quite a lot in the process. What was different about Permute from the others? We had a much more clear vision, we went to the people, and we had experience.
We...
Adding Features
One of the hardest things to decide when we’re working on our apps is what features get added, which we hold off on, and which we just don’t have room for or don’t fit in our vision of the app. Lately we have been trying to take the approach of 37signals and take in all suggestions and then delete them or resolve the issue with a nice reply.
Now I don’t want to give the...