HistoryHound Documentation

Who's to Blame

HistoryHound was conceived, designed, and programmed by Jon Gotow after he got ticked off that a decent utility like this wasn't already available. User interface design is the result of collaboration between Jon, Ben Gotow, and Sanford Selznick.

A special thanks to all of the very tolerant friends and beta testers who've helped make HistoryHound a reality. These folks include, but are not necessarily limited to: Andreas Fischlin, Angus McIntyre, Ben Gotow, Boyd Burkhardt, Colin Holgate, Eberhard Woentz, Frederic Jacquart, Jean-Marie Quidet, Jeremy Roussak, Michael R. Bagnall, Mogens Thyregod, Neil Lee, Philippe Bonnaure, Ronald Leroux, Sanford Selznick, Stephen Steiner, and Timo Orre.

HistoryHound is Copyright 2004-2020 by St. Clair Software, and St. Clair Software retains sole rights to it. It is not to be redistributed for profit or bundled with any other product without written consent.

HistoryHound was created in Cocoa using Xcode, Interface Builder and TextEdit from Apple Computer, Inc. and relying upon libraries and header files supplied by by Apple Computer, Inc. and other third parties. Portions of this software are therefore protected by the copyrights of their respective holders.

Disclaimer (making them blameless)

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End User Licensing Agreement (the lawyers made me do it)

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