NovaStorm Software is a small software company whose goal is to produce affordable, quality Mac and iPhone applications. Although I typically use “we” when referring to NovaStorm Software, there’s only one person in this company

Development on AquaPrompt began a few months before the iPhone version of EasyGPA. My high school’s TV studio needed a TelePrompTer, but we weren’t satisfied with the free and inexpensive solutions, so I wrote the first version of AquaPrompt (initially called QuickPrompt) and began using it for our daily announcements. After EasyGPA was released, I put AquaPrompt on the internet, hoping someone could use it. After some positive feedback and becoming an Apple Staff Pick, I decided to switch AquaPrompt to a commercial product and continue development.

There was an app I saw one day (I think it was called “lillil”) that hid the menubar so you could see all the icons on the right side. I thought it was useless until I needed it... and I couldn’t find it again. So I wrote my own and added a few features to make it as seamless as possible. I’m confident some people will find it useful, particularly those with small screens.

This was my first application and dates back to 2006, where it started as a MS Visual Basic app with a partial TI-83 version and plans for a Windows Mobile version. Unfortunately Visual Studio Professional was too expensive, so the mobile version never got off the ground. In late 2007, I switched to the Mac and began to rewrite it as a Mac application. Over the summer of 2008 I put in some time studying Cocoa and Objective-C, and soon afterwards started the iPhone version.

This was the result of an AP Computer Science project, where our task was to write a game in Java. Several ideas came to mind, but Euchre stuck and I decided it offered a lot of potential. Because it’s written in Java, this is the only cross-platform NovaStorm Software application.

Twee! began after I first started using Twitter. The intent was a simple way to post a tweet without needing the web interface, but also something that didn’t get in the way. However, at the time I had no idea how I would be using Twitter, so it seemed like a good idea. It still is, in a way, but I discovered that the way I thought I would use Twitter is not the way others do, or in fact how I do now. Twee! is now considered outdated; we recommend the excellent {{Tweetie}} by atebits software. If you still find Twee! useful, though, it will remain available for download.

This is a fairly simple app that has one purpose - to preview exported documents. It was created when I had a class project I had written in the outstanding {{Ulysses}} that I needed to fit into a single page. The result was Proof, which is a simple exporter that previews all the files in a folder and allows you to move the contents of that folder into a destination folder. Development on Proof is currently frozen; however, features contributed to the open source version will still be integrated into the program as they arrive.