Our upcoming product Snippets will be our sixth BlackBerry application, and our most ambition user-interface to date. The custom user interface engine used in Snippets is capable of rendering on any modern BlackBerry device from the older Pearl models displaying at 240×260 pixels to the new Storm and Bold devices running upwards of 480×360 pixels. [...]

Today, work began on the user interface for our next BlackBerry app: Antair Snippets. Antair Snippets is engineered to be the best auto-text/auto-complete application for the BlackBerry – enabling you to compose anything from short common phrases, to entire book-length e-mail messages, using only a few keystrokes. Along the way, Antair Snippets will surprise you [...]

Antair Call Screener is a Handango Favorite this morning. Awww. Shucks. And BerryReview picked up on Antair Headers — our FREE tool that lets you view full e-mail headers on your BlackBerry. Twitter has been buzzing with folks talking about Antair Headers. Cheers!

We’ve just released version 1.4 of our Auto-Responder product for the BlackBerry. This new version introduces more customer-requested features, such as an increased timeout for responses sent to the same e-mail address, and the ability to retain the subject line of the original message instead of using a custom subject line. We’ve also updated the [...]

No, not Wilbur. Someone who comes in at least once a week and cleans our office. Seriously. I could go on and on about how our company depends on knowledgeable customer support crew, or our brilliant developers, but the truth is, if it weren’t for my first (and least expensive) hire, we would’ve all drowned [...]

Sometimes, the coolest apps produced by a software company will never be shipped to the customer. In this case, though, “cool” is in the eye of the observer, and the observer would need to be another programmer. I am, of course, referring to internal tools. At a typical software firm, such tools can range from [...]

The good city of New York has decided that the street outside of Antair’s offices needs a little sprucing up. That’s a good thing. In a year, when our office lease is up and we move into a bigger space, the people in the company taking over our current office will enjoy lovely shading in [...]

I’m really feeling the economy this week at Antair. We’re trying to fill a helpdesk support position this month. Last year, around this time, we were filling a similar position and received resumes at the rate of about 20 resumes a day. This year, the resumes are coming in at a rate of 40 per [...]

We moved into the new Antair offices in March of 2008. I meant to do a write-up on setting up and furnishing an office for a software company at that point, but interviewing for two new open positions, and other administrative nonsense prevented me from doing so. So now, a year later, I’ve finally found [...]

The BlackBerry SDK doesn’t come out of the box with much in the area of user interface controls. There’s enough to get started, but should you need to build something of actual value, you’ll soon find yourself craving something a bit more than a dry edit field or a boring old square button. Aside from [...]