April 30th, 2008
Writing an application for the Mac has been a longtime goal of mine. I’m happy to say that I can finally check that goal off of my list: Presenting DomainBrain 1.0.
DomainBrain is a handy tool for Mac OS X that helps webmasters and web designers keep track of server and login information for websites they maintain. I work on quite a few websites for myself and others, and keeping track of URLs, usernames and passwords, and database configuration info for those sites has always been a bit of a pain. DomainBrain is designed to keep all that info in one place with a simple, straightforward interface.
DomainBrain is free for use with four domains or fewer. To keep track of info for more than four domains, you can purchase a license for $14. Visit the DomainBrain homepage to get more info and to download and try DomainBrain. Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
Great application, bought it straight away!
Looks great and functions perfectly, well done
I look forward to seeing this application mature!
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Thanks Pinky - glad you like it!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Awesome idea but it would be even more useful if users could set default entries, which can be over-written, for the Hosting and Registrar sections because, obviously, most designers managing loads of domains will have consolidated most of them under one registrar, and will probably only use one or two hosting accounts.
It may not seem like much effort to hammer out those details again for each domain, but not having to do it would save each user a few minutes and make using DomainBrain even more pleasurable.
In fact, it would be great if, via Preferences, the user could set defaults for ALL the sections because a lot of CMS and MYSQL details are going to be at least partially the same i.e. someone using WordPress a lot would appreciate being able to set “http://www.—.com/wp-admin” as the default text for the Admin URL field, so that they could simply enter their domain into it.
Any chance of seeing those improvements in a future version?
May 8th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Thanks for the feedback WordSkill. I agree that re-entering repeat info can be a pain. I’m thinking about adding a “Duplicate Domain” function at some point, which would be one possible way to deal with the issue you mention - duplicate a domain with similar info, then just edit what needs to be different.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:00 am
I love this app, i wish it had the ability to email details to client like serverskine, maybe a feature request??? I bought it
May 10th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Thanks for the purchase Russ! I’ll certainly add that to the feature request list and keep it in mind.
A workaround in the meantime would be to select a domain and go to File > Print… then save as a PDF. You can then email the PDF to a client.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Freakin’ sweet icon. Any sketches you’d like to post, showing/telling the design process?
Kudos.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Thanks Chris! No sketches, unfortunately - I had the idea in my head and dove straight into the vector version of it.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Great app,
trying it ot right now.
I am actually working on something similar but as a web application, but this looks really neat!
June 21st, 2008 at 4:17 am
Awesome, this looks great man. I’m going to head over there and check it out. I love the icon as well.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am
This is a great app, I suppose, for Mac users (snark alert). Any chance you can make this useful for PC’ers?
You ought to show this off at ConvergeSouth 2008 in your breakout session (thanks for volunteering; more in your email later).