On November 29th, we released version 1.0 of Alfred. We were so excited to finally make this milestone release available to everyone, yet we couldn’t have predicted how much better you would all make December and January for us. Since the release, Alfred received numerous accolades, including the revered Macworld Editor’s Choice Award. As a [...]
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Wishing You a Wonderful Christmas!
December 24, 2011 – 7:40 am
2011 - How was it for you? For us, it was… epic, in the truest sense. It was a long adventure, filled with fantastic twists and turns and a glorious ending. Not only have we made tons of new friends, learned loads more about business, but we have been awarded incredible recognition; We were graced with [...]
Giveaway: Five Powerpacks & Alfred Goodies
December 22, 2011 – 6:30 am
It’s our final giveaway for this year’s Christmas calendar: Five Powerpacks and ten envelopes of Alfred goodies (stickers and keyboard brushes) will be sent to commenters at random. We don’t want to cut into your last minute shopping time so we’ve kept it simple once again. As 2011 has been a really amazing year for us, [...]
Giving to Cancer Research
December 19, 2011 – 7:50 am
Over the course of December, we’ve been giving away all sorts of tips and goodies for you to enjoy as part of our Christmas Calendar. Today, we’ve decided to give differently. The greatest thing we all have to be grateful for is our health, which gives us the freedom to do what we want and [...]
Giveaway: Dropbox accounts up for grabs today!
December 16, 2011 – 7:20 am
In the spirit of Christmas and our Alfred calendar, Dropbox have given us three 10GB lifetime upgrades. Dropbox is an incredibly useful cloud-based file synching service, which we love and highly recommend for Powerpack users who want to sync their Alfred settings. To participate, leave a comment below and tell us how you use Dropbox [...]
Delight in Christmas shopping with Alfred
December 3, 2011 – 6:08 am
We can’t get away from it any longer – there’s under a month left until Christmas. *gasp* Lights and decorations are going up, and so is our blood pressure, thinking of all the presents that still need to be picked up. Fear not, Alfred’s here to help. Set up a few custom searches for your [...]
Alfred 1.0 is here: Pop the champagne!
November 29, 2011 – 6:21 pm
It’s with immense pride and excitement that we released version 1.0 of Alfred today. A major milestone for us, having spent the past two years creating this app and getting to know the awesome Mac community that surrounds us. Check for updates in Alfred’s preferences to download it now. You may notice that your update [...]
Power Up!: Payment Process Gets An Upgrade
October 27, 2011 – 3:44 pm
When we first launched the Powerpack a year ago, we set up Google Checkout as the primary payment system. It was easy to set up, it was affordable and it meant Andrew could get back to adding new features to Alfred. Opinions about Google Checkout were very divided; Some of you liked it but many [...]
New Support Site & Over 100 Awesome Alfred Extensions
October 10, 2011 – 3:48 pm
Since we released version 0.9.9, you have been creating some fantastic extensions to improve your productivity. We published the first few extensions in August to give you a taster for what could be done with extensions. Powerpack users have since created over 100 extensions so we’ve added a whole new section to our new support [...]
Giveaway: Celebrate the Powerpack’s 1st birthday with a silly hat picture!
August 23, 2011 – 3:43 pm
A lot can happen in a year. 12 months ago, we introduced the Powerpack as a very useful add-on to the free version of Alfred. The first Powerpack release had three main features: File System navigation, Result actions and basic control of iTunes with the initial Mini Player. Since then, the Powerpack has grown and [...]
