Archive for September, 2007

What’s New

• New Mac OS X Leopard-style calendar.
• Highlighting of dates with entries in calendar.
• Exporting to rich text (RTFD, RTF) and plain text formats.
• Spotlight integration.
• Clicking on empty title starts a new entry.

You can download the new version from Mémoires web page or, if you have the previous version, click Mémoires > Check for updates…

Today we switched to euro pricing instead of pricing in dollars. Of course, this is influenced by recent drops of $ exchange rates… Since we (unfortunately) don’t live in the United States, and are not sponsored by Gazprom, since we have to grow our tiny company and feed our pets (especially, the toilet paper dispensing mascot), we had to switch to euro. I hope you understand this.

BlogJet is now 29.95 euros.

As a bonus for EU customers, they’ll pay less. Let me explain. European Union has a strange tax for downloadable things – software vendors have to pay VAT if they are not located in the EU. When dollar/euro exchange rate was almost 1/1, we decided to sell BlogJet for 39.95 euros, so that our advertised price was the same for US and for EU, but that price already included VAT. We made less money from EU customers, but we were happy that they saw the actual price and didn’t have to worry about VAT. But today 39.95 euros is about $56.24! Of course, it includes VAT, but the difference is huge, and we had a few customers who complained about that (and for a reason!). So, since today we switched to euro pricing, EU customers have to pay 29.95 for a copy of BlogJet plus VAT. That’s cheaper than $56, trust me.

We always want our customers to be happy and satisfied with our software, and we hope you’ll understand this move.

(Oh, and you don’t have to pay in euro – actually, we accept payments in 8 currencies, and you can see prices automatically converted to any of 20+ currencies).

P.S. We’ll let the experiment run for a few weeks, and then decide with what currency we want to stay.

Today we released BlogJet 2.0.0.10. This is mostly a bug-fix release.

Here’s what we fixed:

• Fixed: bug with Flickr.
• Fixed: error when getting recent posts from Blogger blogs.
• Fixed: unable to upload images with ampersand in path or filename.
• Fixed other small issues.

BlogJet 2.0.0.10 is free upgrade for those who purchased BlogJet 2.0 or upgraded from previous versions. You can get it from our download page.

Soviet Union produced some licensed cars, e.g. licensed from Ford (GAZ) and Fiat (Lada). But a lot of car designs were just the “pirate” rip-offs of Western models. Look here (original car on the left, Soviet rip-off on the right):

I believe they actually didn’t copy those cars, it’s just a coincidence. Like when two scientists invent something at the same time without knowing about each other efforts. So yeah, the similar design of those cars is just a coincidence.

OK, I’m kidding! These are clones.

So why am I talking about cars and rip-offs?

Look here:

When I was drawing this icon for Mémoires, I thought it would be cool to have “M” on a book. And, since we have a memoir theme here, of course, it must be made of gold. It must have a fancy font. Yeah, this is how cool books should look like.

Two weeks later I saw this Mori icon:

Holy Dolly!

I realized that I’ve seen this icon before. So it turns out, this thing was in my subconscious mind, and when I decided to draw a book with an “M” on it, I reproduced the Mori icon.

Holy Dolly, Sorry, Mori!

I’m going to replace Mémoires icon for a final release with something else. Maybe, with “Mé” on it? Or maybe just add a pen to this icon? A black one… Oh, and a green book instead of a blue one, maybe? Ha-ha :) Your suggestions?

Check out:

Mémoires
the easiest Mac diary software.

Journaling is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to accelerate your personal development. By getting your thoughts out of your head and putting them down in writing, you gain insights you’d otherwise never see.  — Steve Pavlina

We are happy to announce the public beta release of Mémoires — our first product for Mac OS X (second, if you count our popular Mahalo widget).

Mémoires is the best way to keep your journal on your Mac. Choose a day and write as many notes as you like. Then browse your journal by day using calendar, or search for notes using the instant-search feature.

Mémoires has a gorgeous user interface. Even though it’s a powerful application, it is very easy to use. No distractions, no complicated forms: just two buttons and one search field. Even easier than a paper journal!

Best of all, it’s free. Download it now, and let us know what you think.

Customers switching from PCs to Macs ask us if we’re going to release BlogJet for Mac OS X. The answer is — we don’t have such plans at this time, sorry.

But if you’re looking for a BlogJet replacement for Mac OS X, look no futher than MarsEdit.

Daniel Jalkut, a fellow shareware developer, released a new major version of the great blog client for Mac (congrats!).

You can download a free trial version, and if you like it, it’s yours for $29.95.

For Windows users: stay tuned for the next version of BlogJet.