Archive for January, 2009

From: Dmitry Chestnykh
To: All Staff
Subject: SOME BUTTONS TO BE DISABLED

Dear staff,

As you may have heard, bright minds over at Nielsen removed “Reply to All” button to eliminate bureaucracy and inefficiency.

Today Coding Robots Executive Council held an event called ¡ACT IMMEDIÄTELY!, and we developed a plan (inspired by can-doers at Nielsen) to further improve our productivity.

We developed four Mail toolbar configurations for different departments.

Support

Our technical support staff can have only two buttons: Get Mail and Reply. Obviously, they don’t need New Message and other non-productive buttons.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing can have four buttons: Get Mail, New Message, Reply to All, Add Address. We are aiming for the best exposure, that’s why they don’t have Reply button, and have Reply to All instead. They can’t have Forward button, because everyone out there is tired of Internet memes.

Developers

Developers can have three buttons: Get Mail, Bounce, Junk. They never use Reply and New Message anyway.

Executives

Finally, we, executives, decided to place stricter constraints on ourselves. Executives are allowed to have only one button: Take All Accounts Offline.

This is one of the many changes being implemented as a result of the ¡ACT IMMEDIÄTELY! initiative. In my next email I’ll talk about removing unnecessary buttons from your keyboards to further spread the productivity virus!

Best,
Dmitry Chestnykh
Chief Executive Officer

Sorry, we incorrectly said that upgrade from Mémoires has 60% discount off the full price. The upgrade ($17.95) is actually 60% of the full price of license, thus the discount is 40%.

Please accept our apologies for this mistake.

We are happy to announce Mémoires 2.0, a new major version of our journaling software!

We listened to you and implemented a lot of your suggestions in this version.

Here’s a list of changes. You can find more information on What’s New page.

• Show all entries. Your journals are now easier to browse: view all your entries in sidebar by clicking on the button or using new View menu.
• Automatically save journals. Mémoires will now automatically save your journals every 5 minutes and before closing, so you won’t lose a bit.
• Change date and time of entries. Entry title now conveniently shows date of entry creation. By clicking on it, you can change the date and time.
• Better look of search results. Search results now have the same background as normal entries list, and shows shorter date to leave more space for entry title.
• Check spelling as you type by default. While available in earlier versions, “Check spelling as you type” has been turned off by default. Now it’s on, so you can spot spelling mistakes on the fly.
• Entries are now created and sorted using correct time.
• Improved speed of browsing calendar and entries.
• Added View > Go To Today menu item.
• New application and document icons.
• Better look of entry title.
• Better look of dates with entries in calendar.
• Improved Help menu.
• Disable Entry > Remove menu item when there’s no selection.
• New crash reporter.
• Hide file extension when encrypting or decrypting file.
• Fixed rare issue with buttons appearing as pressed.
• Fixed typos in help.

Users of Mémoires 1.x can purchase an upgrade with 60% discount 40% discount (upd: sorry, I meant 60% of the price, which is 40% discount). If you bought Mémoires 1.x after December 1, 2008, you are eligible for a free upgrade, and we’ll send your new license today (if you didn’t receive it, please use lost key recovery page to get your key).

You can download Mémoires 2.0 from its product page.

We hope you’ll enjoy the new version!