Our developer blogs

If you'd like to find out even more information about the people that make up our company, we have personal blogs for the developers and designers so that you can find out more about what we've been working on.

Paul Mendoza - Lead Developer of File Phantom

Paul is the programmer of File Phantom and often writes on encryption, technical details of development and concepts around file security.

Chris Kirkman - Lead Designer

Chris often writes on designing amazing interfaces and developing a startup company like Linewave Media.

File Phantom on Bits Du Jour

There are a lot of sites online that have 24 hour, highly discounted sales of only a select amount of products that are often overstocked at other stores but there are very few successful software type sites that do the same thing but Bits Du Jour is one of the successful ones as it manages to attract a unique collection of software that it offers at a huge discount mainly from independent software developers.

My own software that I’ve been writing and selling online called File Phantom will be one of the featured products on Bits Du Jour on Monday, January 22nd. It will be selling for only 40% of the normal price which equates to $15.98. I also offer a 30 day free trial of the software at the File Phantom website so I suggest that you check out the software if you’re thinking of purchasing it on Monday. Normally File Phantom’s price is $39.95 so I think this is a really good deal.

I’m continuing development on the next version of File Phantom that has improved folder support, hotkey hiding and a whole new set of features but anyone that owns the current version will receive the new version for free. I’m hoping to release the next version around late February but it could be sooner.

Q&A Time

We hope that everyone had a great Christmas and holiday season. We’re back to working hard on some cool new features for the next release of File Phantom but we’re looking for insight into what you’d like to see as part of the product.

We’ve also received some really good questions of the last few days.

Question: I have a CEO that has sensitive files that he can’t have the IT staff looking at. If the CEO used File Phantom, would the IT staff still have access to those files?
Answer: The IT staff wouldn’t have access to those files because there aren’t any tools that the IT staff could use to open the files unless the IT staff knew the password of the CEO’s File Phantom account that he created.

Question File Phantom has user accounts. Are those user accounts connected to the Windows Login?
Answer: No, and this is a great feature because it prevents even people that have access to the computer from being able to access your protected files unless they also know what the File Phantom password is for your account.

New Version

We just released a new version of File Phantom last night with a lot of new updates. Included is the new installer that we’re now using that assigns the new file associations to File Phantom, allows File Phantom to open protected files from the file explorer and when files are being encrypted, the encryption progress bar moves to represent to the progress being made.

These are all great new features for File Phantom and we’re bringing even more features in the coming weeks. But we want to know what else you want from File Phantom.

File Phantom released!

File Phantom has officially launched today and we’re very excited about all the new features that have been added in the last two weeks since the last release we had during our beta period. Thank you to everyone that helped us during the beta to find bugs.

The first version of File Phantom is $39.95 and has a ton of new features as well a new installer that has many new features that that original beta installer was missing.

From now on we’ll be discussing a lot of security type things on this blog which is more what we want to focus on providing information on. Encryption is an important part of security and yet it’s a part of security that many companies seem to over look until their data gets stolen. We need to raise awareness of the encryption safe guards and the benefits.

We hope that you check back often or subscribe to our Atom XML feed for updates from us on new versions of File Phantom and our continuing discussion on file security.

A whole ton of new features

We just put in a ton of new features into File Phantom in the last couple of days. If you thought that the software was a little hard to get started with before, we've put in a really useful tutorial mode that starts up automatically the first time you run the software on your computer. It prompts you to create a user and teaches you a few tricks and once you've got that, it prompts you to select your first files for File Phantom to manage.

If you have any other ideas for features, we'd love to know. We'd really like the tutorial mode and we're hoping to implement this in more parts of the product.

What about prizes for ideas?

Do you ever have an idea that you think should make our software rock? Yeah, we have them all the time so don't bother us with them because we're probably already building it. No, I'm just kidding.

If you have an idea, you should totally tell us. I actually think we should have some sort of process where by we'll give some sort of prize to each person that comes up with ideas for the software that we actually then implement. We couldn't give prizes to everyone that has an idea but just to those ideas that we wind up implementing into the software.

We'll need to come up with some sort of way to track the ideas.

Maybe the prizes would be something like a new XBox 360 game with a File Phantom shirt or something. We're flexible. Let me know what you'd be interested in.