Ok, the hangover after the BJ2 release party has almost passed, so now we robots need to get forth with our plans to conquer the world. I assumed that it is rather hard to do this selling the product(s) only from the website, so maybe that’s the time to introduce some B2B stuff? After all, I’m the chief sales guy, ain’t I?

So, if anyone feels like being able to sell some of our bytes through your own channels (e.g. owners of paid XXX blog portals:), plz write to us at sales@codingrobots.com, sure we can find a mutually profitable and blablabla way to make business.

PS Did you count the number of times I said “so”? I guess I have to fight with expletives in my language.

So, Windows Vista has been released yesterday. They even have a limited “Bill Gates Signature” edition (+$10). Quote from Amazon:

Get this limited-availability Signature Edition signed by the world’s richest man and own a little piece of history.

Anybody knows who is the world’s poorest man? I’d like to get his signature and put it on BlogJet. I may even lower the price for this limited edition .

Anyway, just a reminder that BlogJet 2.0 works great under Vista.

We had a tiny BlogJet 2.0 release party in a local restaurant. Here are a few photos…

Vladimir (Chief Sales Robot) and Liza (Chief Sales Robot’s Owner)

Dmitry (Chief Executive Robot).

More after the jump.

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• We quickly fixed a bug with new Blogger — sometimes you could get “400 Bad Request” error when publishing post. If this happens, please, download the updated version from http://www.blogjet.com/download/ (2.0.0.7) (We know — too early for a new release, but this is a major bug, so we decided to update it). It also fixes a few things with Community Server (now you can upload files without FTP) and Subtext.
• Blogger users will have to create new accounts in BlogJet to make it work with blogs migrated from the old Blogger.
• You can get rid of the feature that turns every “BlogJet” into link by deleting the rule in Tools > Auto Replace. (Actually, this supposed to serve as a demo of this feature.)
• A long requested feature to sort categories is actually available. Just click Refresh and — boom! — they are sorted.
• BlogJet 2.0 doesn’t start a new post after publishing (now publishing works like printing of documents in word processors.) We think it is a much better way, since you can immediately edit your post. However, if you still prefer the old behavior, click Tools > Preferences and select Start a new post after publishing.
• You can change the appearance of tags in your posts or hide them completely, since they are surrounded by DIVs with class .bjtags. More on this later.
• Those who received our newsletter has been prompted to reconfirm their subscription, since we moved the newsletter to a new platform. Only a small fraction of subscribers did this, so I guess a lot of you didn’t read the message down to the end . You can subscribe here: http://www.codingrobots.com/newsletter/ . And of course, we have an RSS feed.
• As promised, those who purchased BlogJet after October 30, received a free update. If you didn’t receve your key, please, let us know.
• About licenses:
  
  1) Single license allows you to use BlogJet on as many computers as you like provided that you are the only user. (For example, it’s OK to use it at home, at work, and on a laptop).
  
  2) Family pack license covers up to five members of your family.
  
• Thanks everyone for posting announcements on their blogs! (If you didn’t, what are you waiting for??? )

We are happy to announce the availability of the all-new BlogJet 2.0,
the best blog client for Windows!

BlogJet 2.0 is a giant leap forward in the process of developing the ideal platform for bloggers. It is a major release, and we believe it’s a big event for the whole blogging community.

Top 5 new features include:

• New user interface. It is easier, more complete, and has themes (looks native on Vista).
  
• Post management with local cache. Your posts are stored in local cache, so you don’t need Internet connection to access them anymore.
  
• Instant search. Finding posts is easier because of the instant search, which shows results as you type.
  
• Tags. Finally, you can tag your posts easily. No more plugins, no more hacks. And if your blog platform supports tags natively (currently only Movable Type 3.3 or later), BlogJet can use them.
  
• Blog autodiscovery. No more troubles with finding the right API settings — just enter your blog’s address, and BlogJet will configure itself.
  
• …and many more.

BlogJet is now more stable and launches faster. All known bugs have been fixed. It now works with new Blogger and we fixed the issue with Live Spaces.

Get it at http://www.blogjet.com!

If you purchased previous versions of BlogJet, we have special upgrade prices (valid until August 2007, so get it now).

Update: As promised, those who purchased BlogJet after October 30, will receive their new license for free soon.

We are also proud to announce that BlogJet is now a product of a new company — Coding Robots. Dmitry, BlogJet’s author, is Chief Executive Robot there. You can find out more about us at http://www.codingrobots.com

You think it’s crazy to hire Toaster to be our chief marketer?

Come on, take a look at the toaster hired to be a Playstation 2!

(via Destructoid)

Apple is famous for their attention to detail. Did you know that if you unplug the headphones during playback, iPod will pause the song? Another example: they hided the iSight indicator on the recent revision of MacBook Pro.

Attention to detail is not perfectionism, it’s balance. Like Formula-1 drivers try to find the right balance to keep their car on track and get the highest speed; those who pay attention to detail find the right balance between adding features and polishing existing ones.

Here at Coding Robots we try to find that balance — it’s our philosophy to pay attention to detail. (Despite the platform we make software for ).

A quote from a troubleshooting guide for a notebook from one world-famous Korean computer company:

9. I cannot hear sound through the headphones. – Check if the sound is muted in Windows. – Turn the volume up. – Replace the main board.

PS. Guillotine