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.

Recently we moved out of the kitchen-based office in my apartment to a new dedicated office. Here’s a short tour.

First of all, this is our… hm… mascot — a toilet paper dispenser robot:

Vladimir bought it in Taiwan.

Continue reading: Tour of our new office →

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Watch and listen to what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates think about client applications vs. web applications

Continue reading: Are client applications still important? →

Do you think rumors about Russian weather are just urban legends? Then check out this picture made from a window of CR HQ:

There was also a drunk bear walking by in an ushanka cap and playing a bayan, but it didn’t fit in the picture

Nice to see my name in one of the most popular blogs: Russian ecommerce hack tricks post-office in US/Canada.

Inside the box is some useful (and I mean, really useful for a small software company) free stuff from Microsoft which was available only for US/Canada citizens :)

Me (to the left) and Dmitry coding at CR headquarters.