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Jim Boutcher

  • In honor of Jobs, QuickCal donating profits to pancreatic cancer research

    Amidst an outpouring of social media tributes to Steve Jobs last night in the immediate aftermath of the Apple co-founder’s death, one from the Silicon Prairie stood out. QuickCal, which we reported on just yesterday, posted the following tweet: “100% of QuickCal profits will be donated for Pancreatic Cancer Research until 10/14. Indie devs -…

  • With ‘drastic upgrade’ to look and feel, QuickCal 3.0 sees sales soar

    QuickCal 3.0 is flying off the virtual shelves, and it has a Twitter tip to thank — in part, at least — for the uptick in sales. QuickCal, the application that takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates those events and tasks in iCal, has seen its daily sales quadruple …

  • QuickCal quick to help, gain traction in new markets (Video)

    Lately, the team at Smelly Puppy has been using its prized scheduling app, QuickCal, to help with more than calendar issues. QuickCal, as we explained last summer, takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates those events and tasks in iCal. So, for instance, instead of opening iCal and entering an hour-long…

  • Prairie Moves: Halo Institute, UNO4sq, McClanhan Studio & more

    (Photo by davedehetre via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • Prairie Moves: Allied Strategy, Phenomblue, Dwolla & more

    (Photo by IndigoValley via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • QuickCal explained in screencast, mentioned on Lifehacker

    After success with a Mac OS X desktop widget called QuickCal – 10,000+ downloads and mention on the popular blog Lifehacker – Jim Boutcher of Smelly Puppy is expanding his repertoire and is now offering an iPhone app called QuickCal Mobile ($0.99). QuickCal takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates that…

  • Prairie Moves: Advent IP adds two, Smelly Puppy releases app & more

    (Photo by Let Ideas Compete via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie…