Craig Hockenberry

http://furbo.org/

Craig Hockenberry has been working with images and software for over 30 years. He is currently a principal at the Iconfactory, a company that has been changing the face of the computer desktop since 1996. Their work includes the design & production of icons for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and other leading software companies.

He’s also responsible for the secret control panels at Iconfactory.com, a website that gives away about 2 terabytes of pixels every month, and keeps many fellow designers informed and entertained.

He also loves writing cool software, and thinks that Cocoa and Quartz (for the desktop and iPhone) and Ruby and Rails (for the web) are the greatest things since sliced bread.

In past lives, Craig has built robots, processed satellite imagery, and created effects filters for Photoshop.

The built-in Weather app is functional, but lacks any great detail. Hence WeatherBug, which despite a clumsy UI gives me the information I want.

Likewise, PCalc replaces the built-in calculator with a MUCH better version. I love RPN and use the hexadecimal mode often.

I do most of the cooking in our family, so Groceries makes it very easy for me to stay on top of what we need in the kitchen. It’s also responsible for quite a few messy fingerprints :-)

NetNewsWire is getting a little long in the tooth, but I know that Brent is working on a new version. Can’t wait to see it! (I beta tested version 1.0 before we had Ad Hoc provisioning.)

The bottom row is apps that we’ve written. Twitterrific, of course. Then there’s a small web app I call “Laguna” that displays the local surf and dive conditions and shows the webcam of Main Beach in Laguna Beach, CA.

Ramp Champ is for beta testing. Yeah, that’s it. I’m beta testing. All the time. Testing. Testing. Testing. And trying to test the fricken’ black ducks in Clown Town.

Pickin’ Time is still a secret. An awesome one, at that.