{"id":21786,"date":"2018-06-12T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21786"},"modified":"2018-06-12T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:49:05","slug":"smile-turns-15-an-interview-with-greg-scown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/smile-turns-15-an-interview-with-greg-scown\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile Turns 15: an Interview With Greg Scown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2018\/06\/smile-turns-15-scown-interview\/\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2018\/06\/smile-turns-15-scown-interview\/\">\n<p>My co-founder Philip introduced himself to me at Macworld San Francisco 2003, where I was exhibiting PageSender, my faxing software. We hit it off, I had an idea for a product, he had the artistic know how, and together we produced DiscLabel, our disc labeling app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We acquired Textpander from Peter Maurer, now of <a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/\">Many Tricks<\/a>. Smile shipped TextExpander 1.3 on May 23, 2006, and the post you cite does a good job telling the story. It&rsquo;s a case of, &lsquo;I really need this app for my life, other people must also&rsquo; combined with &lsquo;If I make it, I can ensure it will always work for me.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If the era of fax and PageSender is over, what&rsquo;s next? We figured PDFs sent via email would replace faxing. Looking at the PDF editor options showed a huge gap between Apple&rsquo;s Preview, which was read-only at that time, and Adobe Acrobat, which was far too much for an everyday user. We figured we could fit somewhere between &lsquo;free and very limited&rsquo; and &lsquo;crazy expensive and can do everything, only a bit of which you need.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hackett: My co-founder Philip introduced himself to me at Macworld San Francisco 2003, where I was exhibiting PageSender, my faxing software. We hit it off, I had an idea for a product, he had the artistic know how, and together we produced DiscLabel, our disc labeling app. [&#8230;] We acquired Textpander from Peter Maurer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-12T18:49:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"e1113f69-4649-459b-88bb-fb845ba1d528","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-12T18:49:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A4RE_aUZJRZuIu_uEW6HVKA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,295,30,390,468],"class_list":["post-21786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-pdfpen","tag-textexpander"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21787,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions\/21787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}