About Shirt Pocket — a.k.a. Hi, Mom!

A small company, making small but useful things.

Shirt Pocket is committed to creating affordable, fully supported, well-designed programs for the Macintosh—carefully crafted to bring a smile to your face when you use them.

Who is Shirt Pocket?

Shirt Pocket was founded by me—David Nanian—in late 2000, to create exciting, useful, well-engineered and well-supported software, bringing along 20 years of entrepreneurial and commercial development experience.

Before Shirt Pocket, I co-founded UnderWare in 1983 (yes, I have a fondness for clothing-based company names—and a rather sophomoric sense of humor) and co-developed BRIEF, a programmer's editor that dominated its segment with over 65% of the market when we sold it in 1990. Its logical, intuitive commands are emulated by other editors—from GNU Emacs to Visual Studio—to this day.

After BRIEF came Track Record, an object-oriented bug tracking system that helped thousands of teams stay on track. I later managed development at Compuware's NuMega lab before setting off on my own again to build great products in a small-company environment—and Shirt Pocket is the result.

Milestones
1983
Co-founded UnderWare; built BRIEF.
1990
Developed Track Record.
1997
Track Record acquired by Compuware NuMega.
2000
Founded Shirt Pocket.
2001
Developed and released the Eddy-award winning netTunes.
2002
netTunes is joined by launchTunes.
2004
SuperDuper! introduced; netTunes wins a Macworld Eddy.
2005–2006
Back-to-back Macworld Eddy Awards.
2026
SuperDuper! 4 released.

What we've made

SuperDuper!

Introduced 2004. The backup that makes fully bootable copies — and the first to offer "Sandbox" system checkpoints. Two Eddy Awards in 2005 and 2006.

SuperDuper! 4 →
netTunes

Our first product. Control iTunes on one Mac from another, using its native interface. Won a 2004 Macworld Eddy.

In the Hall of Fame →
launchTunes

A Bonjour-based utility that starts iTunes on your music servers the moment you launch iTunes locally.

In the Hall of Fame →
Contact

I hope you like the work I've done. Feel free to reach out with your questions and comments.

dnanian@shirt-pocket.com →
Blog!

Join me as I humiliate myself at Shirt Pocket Watch — my blog about all things Shirt Pocket, and various and sundry other things as well.

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