We have updated our support center — it is much better now (though contact form is not available yet. While we’re working on it, please use email to contact us.)

Also, we got rid of the old forum and moved discussions to Google Groups. There are two user groups now:

• BlogJet Users group

  This place is to discuss BlogJet usage, share your thoughts on blogging, ask for help and request features.

• Mémoires Users group

  This place is for Mémoires users to share their thoughts on journaling, ask for help, and discuss ideas for future versions.

We hope you will be satisfied with improved support!

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.

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.

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

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.

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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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 ).