First off, January 2009 was the best month ever for the company since 2002. We’re looking forward to investing our time and money to bring you new versions of our products and some more fresh software.

BlogJet users would be happy to know that there’s a new version in development (as usual, we don’t disclose release dates, so stay tuned).

Mémoires 2.0 has been released recently, and there is an update in the works, so keep your feature requests and bug reports coming.

Finally, we’re working on an exciting new (secret) project that will revolutionize the way you                and               . We hope it will see the light of day this year.

Thank you for your support! Stay tuned.

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso

Then I found a better quote on the Web and replaced Picasso’s one with it:

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

It turns out, Albert Einstein didn’t say that. Instead, this quote is from Leo Cherne, an American economist.

This was discovered by Ben Shoemate, and he wrote a post in his blog about it:

People use quotes as a way to strengthen their own position. If I can quote someone you respect, it adds credibility to whatever argument I’m making. Over time, the truth gets further and further away. The biggest names have always attracted people who are more than willing to put words into their mouths for their own gain – Confucious, Jesus, Aristotle, Shakespere, Einstein, and the biggest, most misquoted, of them all – God. All of them have probably been quoted more for the things they never said, than things they actually did say. I imagine this is the most disappointing part of time travel, waiting around to witness words never spoken and deeds never done.

Ben made a research to found the actual source and author. You can read more in his blog.

I totally agree with him, and I’m sorry that I helped spread the disinformation. Here’s the lesson: when you’re looking for a good quotation, don’t trust a few websites — do a better research.

xkcd comic

Thanks, Ben!

P.S. See also Wikipedia’s List of misquotations.

Very cool!

(I tried to do this a few years ago, but at that time Wine didn’t support MSHTML control we use for editor in BlogJet. Now it can be installed with IEs4Linux)

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.

New feature!

Look: BlogJet is the 1^st blog client to include this super important feature. See? No?

Look here, again: 1^st.

Yeah, really — 1^st! Not 2^nd, 3^rd or 5673856^th. See? Bingo!

(Works automatically when “Use typographic characters” turned on.) Amazing, huh? We love typography!

OK, no more features for you. After all, it’s a bug-fix release.

Bug fixes

• Fixed not showing categories for TypePad and Movable Type blogs in Recent Posts window.
• Fixed errors with autodetection of dasBlog blogs.
• Fixed error when viewing statistics with no received posts.
• Fixed various Access Violations when getting posts from Blogger (recreate your account in BlogJet!)
• Fixed “TStruct.GetString(category Id)” error when getting posts from WordPress 2.1.
• Fixed error “Could not convert variant of type (OleStr)…” error when creating account for Community Server.
• Workaround for Community Server not returning full URLs of posts.
• Fixed not saving password after changing it.
• Fixed repeating punctuation marks (!, ?, etc.) after autoreplaced words.
• b2evolution API changed to Movable Type API (with file upload support). (Not complete, bugs submitted to b2evolution developers.)
• A few other small bug fixes…

We’re bug killers! Want us to kill your favorite bug? Let us know about it!

Download BlogJet 2.0.0.9 here.

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

Dmitry (Chief Executive Robot).

More after the jump.

Vladimir

Dmitry

Krušovice (VP Drinking?)

In the meantime, Maria was doing some magic at home to get more sales of BlogJet:

Maria (Chief Executive Robot’s Owner… OK, actually, I took this picture on Christmas. She will kill me for posting it.)

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