Aug/094
1.0 Is Out!
I’m a bit late with this post, but Thursday morning Concentrate went 1.0 official.
There were no changes between the last beta and the official release, except the addition of the demo code offering 60 hours of concentration, free.
Prior to Concentrate, I had launched 1 other mac app, 1 web service and 2 iPhone apps. Concentrate has, by far, had the most successful day 1. Both in terms of fantastic feedback, and sales. I owe all of that success to a lot of great tweets, a nice writeup at TUAW, a mention at Minimal Mac a sweet writeup at Productive Flourishing, an excellent screencast and a plenty of other mentions scattered about the interwebs. I know the attention will die down, but I’m hoping I can keep some of this going.
Many thanks to everyone that helped make Concentrate a success!
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7:43 pm on August 15th, 2009
I tried Concentrate out and wanted to see if it could block google readers, but it resolved the address as http://www.google.com and that didn’t seem to work…
7:49 pm on August 15th, 2009
Hi Adam, thanks for giving it a try. This is a limitation with the current domain blocking. I hope to improve this by quite a bit in a future update, but my plans are ambitious and will take time to get right. I’m hoping in a few months though I’ll be able to allow you to block URLs like google.com/reader while still allowing google.com access. Sorry I don’t have a better answer yet.
10:34 pm on August 18th, 2009
I am extremely interested in the capabilities of this program and what operating systems it will work on. I am getting the feeling that it only works on a Mac. Any chance it could eventually work on Ubuntu?
Can it be used to log in and out of Social Networking accounts? If it can there is a whole other use for it. I would love to hear from you with more details. Even if it only works on Macs I would still be interested in blogging about it. I have been seeking a solution like this for a long time now.
10:41 pm on August 18th, 2009
Hi, thanks for commenting. I don’t currently have any plans on porting Concentrate to Linux or Windows. It’s pretty OS specific in what it does so it would take a lot of effort.
No, it just blocks access to them.
Sorry I don’t have better answers