Arctus

Software and Consultancy

Products

Over the course of years, we have built several products and services. Mostly we built them for ourselves, but increasingly we're looking to the future and trying to create products the bring real value to the world. Here is our current offering:

NightOwl (an iPad app)

NightOwl is a web browser for iPad that lets you dim the screen beyond the usual darkest setting of Safari. This is useful for night-time browsing in a dark room, where even the lowest light setting is too bright. NightOwl is free, and we are currently in the process of finishing a major update that brings tabs, advert blocking and more.

Clockwork Accounts

Clockwork Accounts is a small-business accounting package designed specifically to meet the needs of contractors with limited companies. It helps keep track of customers, agencies, timesheets, payments, invoices and so on. It's currently on-line and you can sign-up for an account, but be warned that it is in final stages of phase 1 development, and we're still ironing out a few remaining kinks.

SuperDiary

SuperDiary is a personal project for a very special case, but we put it out here as an example of our Rails work, and because it might be useful to someone else. It's a diary that works well on iPhone. We used the bootstrap toolkit from Twitter to create the UI.

DocSpaces

DocSpaces is the legacy document management platform that we built when we started the company. No longer actively maintained, we are happy to provide it as a demo of our .Net abilities, or as a working system for basic document management needs. Written in 2005/2006, DocSpaces pre-dates many current best-of-breed technologies (such as NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, etc), and is implemented as a pure ASP.NET site with SQLServer stored procedures.

BitRush

BitRush is a pixel-editor for iPad. It's currently due to be finished around March 2012 when we'll submit it to the app store. If you'd like to beta test, get in touch!

Twitter Apps

We have several Twitter apps that are feature-complete to at least advanced prototype stage, but are not hosted (due to our web server being over-capacity right now) and were not properly finished (due to lack of design). They are TweetPress, an app for re-posting your Tweets to a blog, and Favthing, an app for discovering your friends' favourite tweets. We also wrote a .NET Twitter client for Windows, but we stopped development because hardly anybody used it. We still use it ourselves, but that doesn't really count :)

We deliver a lot of projects for our clients too. These are mostly internal line of business applications, but sometimes we also build stand-alone solutions.