Truth: Inspiration of most our products actually comes from the simple goal of enhancing our personal experience. Through the development phase of Mountie, we were pretty focused on how we can spend more time on the couch. Before Mountie, working with multiple screens restricted use to a desk. Now, say hello to my cozy chair in front of the fire. As it turns out having mobile dual screens is much more versatile then we initially imagined. So, here’s a list of all the places I’ve used #mymountie.

1. Office: How awesome is it work and simultaneously watch Netflix, News, any sporting event ( go Liverpool!) or track social media, all at the same time? I’m working out of Guatemala for most of 2015 and Mountie + iPad Air has kept me sane as I’ve transitioned to working solely on laptop. If you are in need of more screen real estate at the office, a mounted iPad is a sweet addition to any set-up. Here’s to hoping iPad Pro is real, magnificently large and mysteriously light. For those of you without a stationary office space, check out this amazing photo from @codersinblack and consider yourself inspired. #multiplescreens #nomadeoffice

2. Home: Let’s be honest, when you’re home you want to use your favorite devices. So go for it. Let Mountie free you to use whatever devices your bound to, wherever you want. 3. Coffee shops: After a few years of working from home, mixing up the environment with a morning trip to a local shop is refreshing. For a while, I was a bit sheepish about actually setting up Mountie while at a coffee shop, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit like this guy.

Then I got over it because having dual screens at a coffee shop is #awesome.

4. Planes: We’ve all been there. Space is limited to essentially what you can hold with your hands. Every time I fly, I’m torn between trying to get some work done on my laptop and just chilling out with a show on the iPad. It’s a tough decision, especially since iPads are now allowed during take-off and landing. Now, the choice is easy, start with a show, add some work while at cruising speeds, end with a show. #perfect. Whether 30 min or 5 hours on the plane, getting a second screen set-up and turning that all so boring flight into both a productive time, #bonus. If you’re in the market for new "on the go" gear for the plane, try the new 12” Macbook + iPad mini + Mountie.

5. Hotels - whether you’re on vacation or #ontheroadagain, it’s great to be able replicate that environment that helps you get into the zone. Sure, it’s not the office, but I bet you find yourself itching to volunteer for the next work trip that pops up just so you can try it out.

Whether you want to add one screen or five, Mountie is the ideal tool. Go ahead, give it a go. #mymountie + your favorite location and let us know where you love using your Mountie.

Dave - Operations guy

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Have you ever wondered just what kinds of motion the new Force Touch trackpad is capable of? We sure did, and it inspired a bit of digging around in the latest release of Mac OS X. We discovered an interesting new function in Core Graphics (the part of your Mac that handles events and manages application windows). This function is capable of moving the trackpad in a few pre-defined ways. After a quick inspection, these presets seem to correspond to a variety of “click down” and “click up” motions you might feel when you press the trackpad. To demonstrate these capabilities and also have a little fun, we have released a new app called Finger Massage. Can you guess what it does?

The app is free to download and the source code is released to the public domain on Github. We hope this will serve as a good starting point for other developers. In fact, it is our hope that someone will devise a way to play The Imperial March using only the trackpad. Just to be clear... Finger Massage is not meant to be therapeutic in any way. Also, be careful when running it at work - the cubicle next door will either think you’ve got an electric razor or something less decorous.

Oh yeah - one more thing. We love the idea of using the trackpad for haptic feedback. Inklet has been updated with the ability to nudge the trackpad when inking starts and stops. It can be turned on in the Drawing Preferences tab.

Updates for this new v1.6.1 are rolling out automatically over the next few days. You can get the update immediately by selecting “Check for Updates...” from the Inklet menu.

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The 1.4.1 release of T1PogoManager for Pogo Connect and Pogo Connect 2 is now available. This is primarily a bug release update and is recommended for all applications.

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• Fix
  • Fixed freeze cause by a queue-lock when delegate is removed.
  • Updated the pen's settings for iPad 1 and iPhone 6 Plus for better operation.
  • Fixed issue with removing observers for a pen on an older iPad with a connection bridged through an iPhone
  • Possible fix for a crash on first connection when using an iPhone.

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We think Inklet is the first 3rd party application to support the Apple’s new Force Touch trackpads. This means you’ll have amazing pressure control on newer machines, and in a pinch you can even use your finger. Having a trackpad capable of measuring force is a big deal. Even though Inklet has always been capable of determining stylus pressure, this update makes measuring pressure simpler and more reliable. Kudos to the team at Apple who designed this precise and useful instrument. Inklet will prompt you to update sometime within the next three days. You can get the update immediately by selecting “Check for Updates...” from the Inklet menu.

Release notes:

	Lots of improvements and support for new hardware. - Enhanced pressure control for machines with a Force Touch trackpad. - Improved pressure response for machines with a regular Multitouch trackpad. - Fix for occasional issue with a stroke ending unexpectedly. - Various other minor fixes.

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Our Autograph iOS library has been update to v1.6.1 (build 31) with a fix for auto layout. Show release notes

• Fix
  • Drawing canvas is now correctly updated after the canvas frame is updated by the auto layout engine. Thanks to Lucien.

Note: if you’re using CocoaPods, your podfile should show something similar to:

pod 'T1Autograph', '~> 1.6.1'

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