![]() And I try to keep regular hours, and only work weekdays. One room of my home is an office, and I know when I’m in there in front of the computer, that’s it’s “work time”. Because I work from home, and have done for 20 years, I try hard to have some boundaries between work and personal life. 5) How do you balance your time between friends/family, work, hobbies, and indie dev? And it worked - I ended up working for Apple from 1996 to 2000, before I started doing my own thing full time. I was creating my own apps before I even had a normal job - indeed I was doing it to try and get one in the first place! I put out PCalc and DragThing for free in the early 90s, as a calling card, in the hope that I would be noticed by a big company. 4) What got you started/interested in creating your own applications outside of your “normal” job? The term indie developer is relatively new, but I think I was one even back when I was distributing freeware via usenet in 1992. 3) Have you ever considered yourself an indie developer? Inside of tech, I like playing with the cutting edge, so at the moment things like AR and VR, and 3D graphics generally. My interests outside of tech are fairly vanilla for a man of my age I’d say - comics, video games, lego, and movies. I started programming the Mac when I was at university studying for a Computing Science degree in 1990, and I’ve been playing with computers ever since I got a Commodore 64 as a kid in 1983. I’ve been doing this full time since 2000, so this is my main job and has been for some time now. Education? Background? Main job? Interests outside of tech? Interests inside of tech? Together we run a software company called TLA Systems making apps for Apple products. ![]() ![]() I’m James Thomson, and I live with my wife in Glasgow, Scotland. James Thomson Q&A 1) What is your name? Where do you live? ![]() Check out both PCalc and Dice by PCalc today! You for sure need one or both of these apps □ You can even choose from an incredible amount of textures. Dice allows rolling of any dice combinations as well as making custom dice. Dice by PCalc is also so □ It’s a physical-based dice rolling app that feels incredibly real. I haven’t come close to using the full functionality of PCalc but it’s so worth on any level. It’s not only beautiful and easy to use but has infinitely more features than the default system calculator. PCalc is the best calculator you can possibly get on macOS and iOS. Dice by PCalc is a physics-based simulation of polyhedral dice for use in tabletop role-playing games with dungeons and/or dragons. PCalc is a fully featured scientific calculator with support for hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations, as well as an RPN mode, parentheses, programmable functions, and an extensive set of unit conversions. James has a lot of experience living the indie dev life and has been an inspiration to so many of us. I have been a big fan of James for so long. Registering unlocks extra features in the software.James is the creator of PCalc for iPad and iPhone, The software is distributed as shareware and costs US$25 to register. Added an option to treat dock items as real buttonsĭragThing requires Mac OS 8.6 or later, including Mac OS X CarbonLib 1.1 is also necessary for Mac OS 8.6 and 9.Added an option to find missing items automatically.Added an option to display the Trash at the end of the Process Dock.Added an option to add URL documents as aliases to the original.Added an option to not follow aliases when you add them to a dock.Live resizing of docks from the Dock Options window.You can now edit the text color for docks directly.Multiple levels of undo for many actions.Support for true 128×128 icons, even on Mac OS 9.A new feature to repair all missing dock items in one go automatically.Support for tooltips to show the name of the item under the cursor.New sorting options for the Process Dock, including most recently used.Docks can now center-align to the edges of the screen and grow in both directions.Many new dock appearance options, including greater font and style control.Hierarchical contents menus for folders and disks.Completely rewritten Aqua-ready user interface with new Preferences and Options windows.DragThing has been rewritten as a Carbon application which runs on both Mac OS X and 8.6 or later.
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