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  • Don’t sweat, QuickCal maker’s app helps users exercise more efficiently

    The folks who brought you QuickCal, the top-selling iOS scheduling app, are back, and this time they’re helping organize your workouts. Smelly Puppy’s latest app, Zones, hit the App Store in February as a result of Omaha developer James Boutcher’s frustrating experiences at the gym. While he was on a metabolic heart rate workout plan,…

  • 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 …

  • Prairie Moves: Brandon Weber, Shane Mac, VineMe and More

    Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • Prairie Moves: CremaLab, Syncbak, Pongr, QuickCal & More

    Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • 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: RockDex, Smelly Puppy, Uppward & more

    (Photo by Mark Michaelis via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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: 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,…

  • 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…

  • Stocking stuffers: iPhone apps from the Prairie

    We recently put out a call for you to send us your suggestions for iPhone apps built on the Prairie, thinking that they would make great stocking stuffers. We couldn’t help it. Danny was inspired. Submissions started rolling in immediately. Some were old favorites. Many were brand new surprises. Now, Christmas is almost upon us,…