Coming Attractions

Well, 2.1.1 is just about ready to go out the door. It turns out that when we released 2.1 is contained a timing bug that none of our beta testers (or us) caught, but many of our other users did, unfortunately. It has taken us some time to trace down this problem but we got it. This fix and a few other little things will be in the 2.1.1 release.

On another note, we are gearing up to go to MacWorld this January. We will have a small booth again this year, but we plan to have something to give away so come by our booth and check it out. I don’t know the number yet, but I will post it when I find out.

We are also starting work on our next release. Our next release should come out the first part of next year and will have some new features. I’m pretty excited about it because I think that will be the point where we will officially have a pretty good “general” word processor that we can then use to start adding lots more features targeted at specific users.

So, now that 2.0 is out, I thought some people might be interested in what we are doing next. Well, first off, we have started advertising! We are running ads on both macminute.com and on As the Apple Turns. We are also going to start ads in a few other places as well. Our theme for 2.0 is Express Yourself and we have a number of really fun promotions planned around that theme. I’m really looking forward to them!

On that note, we will probably hold off on some of those promotions until we get our next release out, which we are working hard on right now. (Well, not really. Half of our engineering team is taking some well earned vacation time right now, but after that, they will be hard at work, I promise!) The next release will come out fairly soon and will include a French localization. It will also have performance improvements. I’ve already seen noticeable improvements in our RTF reader so I’m very hopeful about the progress we will be able to make in a short time.