Noise from the Basement

We’ve just released a new version of Mini-Compressor that fixes an annoying install bug.  As usual you can download the new version via the Downloads page.

More information about the release can be found here.

On our recent trip to Boston for the Business of Software Conference, we took a side trip to the Hallowe’en capital of America - Salem, MA.  There we saw a real piece of clever marketing, a real noble claim.  We saw the storefront of the Official Witch of Salem!  Imagine that!  It opened my eyes to the possibilities.  Saturday Morning Productions, the official business of the basement!  Mini-Compressor, the official compressor of photos!  Chris and Ada, your official Get Stuff Done team!

When music videos first came out, I think music* stars thought this would be a clever way to market their music – you know, appeal to the visual learners.  I don’t think they thought it would essentially quadruple their workload – learning ‘acting’ parts/dance moves – not to mention hiring of directors, writers, models, dancers.

While we don’t make any music videos at Saturday MP, I can’t help but relate to this model and blame the Internet for making us more work.  Sure, we sell Mini-Compressor on the Internet.  We market on the Internet.  We look up movie times on the Internet.  We love the Internet.  It has made us money, but it has made us more work too.

There’s a barber shop in our neighbourhood.  He’s recently cut his hours.  I’ve never met him before but I imagine he’s near retirement and would like to spend his hard earned money on trips and precious time with the grandkids.  I kinda imagine him to be like the Wealthy Barber.  Anyway.  He cut his hours.  He’s only open limited hours 4 days a week.  Ironically, his shop is next to a former bank.  I got a few laughs when I told Chris it would be funny if we could get pictures of the new barber’s hours next to the bank’s hours.

Yesterday, September 28, we physically relocated our website in cyberspace. My apologies if you had trouble viewing the website yesterday during the move. We ran into some trouble with setting up our forwarding address and some people got sent to the non-existent old website address. Everything should be sorted out by now but if you are still having trouble viewing the site please let us know at support@saturdaymp.com.