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Hazel 3 is out

March 5th, 2012 — 5:03pm

Actually, this is probably old news since this happened last Thursday, but I finally released Hazel 3. For those of you who don’t know what I do for a living might want to check it out. If anything, you’ll understand a good part of the reason why I haven’t posted here much in the past year or so.

To say I’ve been busy is an understatement but it seems the launch was a success. Ok, so the store was not quite working for the first hour and even after I got it up, there were all sorts of glitches. And nevermind that the links in one of my emails was wrong resulting in thousands of people emailing me asking me about it. And overlook the fact that there were quite a few instabilities in Hazel for people running on 32-bit that were missed in the beta. And it wasn’t all that fun when my bank froze my corporate debit card because it thought that all the charges I was making that day were possibly fraudulent. I can ignore all that because a bunch of people actually bought the result of my hard work and for that, I say thank you.

And also, as a heads up, I will be splitting this blog at some point in the not-too-distant future. I will be starting up a Noodlesoft/Hazel specific blog targeted towards my users which will have tutorials, tips and news while keeping Noodlings as my blog for much more developer oriented stuff. Keep your eyes posted here for updates on that.

 

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Hazel 3.0 beta

September 12th, 2011 — 12:07pm

After all the delays, dead ends, procrastination, wool gathering, futzing around and some actual hard work, Hazel 3 is finally open for beta testing. There’s no set duration for the beta period; it ships when it’s done.

If you’re feeling lucky, you can get the details from this forum article (you need to register for a forum account if you haven’t already). By the way, I hear Time Machine is pretty cool.

 

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Hazel is 5!

September 5th, 2011 — 11:02pm

Five years ago today, I shipped Hazel 1.0.

Hazel started as a personal project that I wrote for my own use but over time I realized that this might be useful to others. Sometimes you just have to dive in. I quit my job to work on Hazel full-time and some months later, I finally shipped my 1.0. Sales were modest at first but over the years it’s paid off. It was a lot of work but it was worth it. If anything, I’ve clocked in more hours over the past few years working pantsless in my home office than over my entire career previous in various other offices.

This blog has been quiet for a while mainly because I’m still at it. Hazel 3 is nearing the testing stage (expect a beta release and more details soon). It’s a bit overdue; I was hoping to release before Duke Nukem Forever but then again, they had bit of a head start. With each new version, I feel like Hazel is fulfilling the vision I had when I first released it five years ago, and then some. Of course, I could never predict the new and interesting ways you have used Hazel over the years and hopefully you, the users, will help shape the product for many years to come.

Enough about the future. It’s Hazel’s birthday today and in celebration, you can get 20% off until midnight tonight (Tues, Sep. 6, Eastern time). Just use this link. Most of you reading this probably have a copy already but I’m sure you have a friend/relative/corporation with deep pockets that could use a copy (or twenty) so send the link along to them. Or buy an extra copy for yourself because you’re just crazy like that. And while you’re at it, have a drink on Hazel’s behalf, or even better, have a drink (or five) before you hit that order page. I hear you save more money have more fun that way.

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