Just a quick notice – our forums will be down for maintenance very briefly (about 5-15 minutes) between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm Pacific time on Monday, March 8th, 2010.
We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. For anyone with support inquiries, please visit our support page for help.
As previously mentioned, OSXpert will be presenting Daylite in the OS X Business Park at the CeBIT trade show show in Hannover, Germany, from 2nd to the 6th of March.
What we didn’t tell you was that they’d be showing off a localized version of Daylite in German for the first time.
Germany has always been a strong market for Marketcircle, even though our products haven’t been available in German. With the release of Daylite Touch (which has been available in German since day one) we had seen an increase in demand for a localized version of the Mac application – and so, we decided it was time.
Localization is being done in cooperation with OSXpert Limited, Marketcircle’s Regional Partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. OSXpert will support all Daylite users in these areas. All Daylite users will be notified by OSXpert directly once the localized version is available.
Localization has been and will be an ongoing process – we’ve started with the application, and will continue with things like the industry database templates, and other documentation, etc.
The first localized public beta of Daylite is scheduled for release in the next 4-6 weeks. The localized components will be available from OSXpert’s German Daylite website.
Send an e-mail to german@daylite.biz to be notified when it’s available.
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Visit the OS X Business Park and see the German Daylite in action. Free tickets are available here.
OSXpert will be presenting Daylite in the OS X Business Park at the CeBIT trade show show in Hannover, Germany, from 2nd to the 6th of March.
If you’d like to attend CeBIT, you can receive a free ticket from OSXpert (normally EUR 38). To receive your free ticket you’ll need to register on this page (valid until Feb 25th). The free ticket codes will be delivered on Friday the 26th.
You’ll want to register asap, as there are a limited number of tickets available.
You can find out more about the show here, and read more about it in the German language here.
Just got back from the Macworld Expo in San Francisco with a huge smile on my face (and a small frown due to the colder weather).
Billings Touch was selected for the Best of Show Award at Macworld – that’s two years in a row for Marketcircle!
We’ve been on quite the winning streak so far; we won a Best of Show Award at Macworld 2009 for Daylite Touch, an Apple Design Award in 2009 for Billings Mac, and another Best of Show Award at this year’s Macworld Expo.
Congrats to the whole team at Marketcircle and a big thanks to all of our users 
Here’s a quick photo of the award we had hanging on our booth:
Billings 3.5.4, a free upgrade for Billings 3.x users, features a few enhancements and some minor bug fixes:
Full release notes are available here.
Go ahead and click the “Check for Updates…” menu item in Billings for an easy in-app update, or download it from our Billings website.
Updated.
We are asking you to not install the latest Apple Security update (2010-001) on both Leopard and Snow Leopard until we have an update. This security update includes a change to the SSL libraries (for secure communications) which causes parts of Daylite to fail (specifically when you hit 512 MB of data transfer in a session).
We are working on an immediate fix and we will update you on the status in the next day or so.
Just in case you are wondering “why did they not test this?”. The answer is, we have no opportunity to test security updates before they are rolled out (unlike OS updates).
UPDATE – Feb 4: Our engineers worked late into the night and have prepared Daylite 3.9.7 and Daylite Server 3.9.7. If you use both, please update both. You can apply this Daylite update before or after installing Security Update 2010-001. Download here.
Until next time…
AJ
The Billings Touch Easter Egg contest has come to an end – three lucky winners were able to find the hidden content.
However, all three winners found the easter egg by chance – not by following the clue we left in our blog post.
When I had said:
“I myself have never seen the show (I know, I know), but apparently it’s about a bunch of survivors that travel forwards and backward through time.”
I was really giving away a clue.
If you swipe your finger forwards and then backwards (horizontally) through the timer when it’s active, LOST hieroglyphics will appear.
Try it yourself!
PS: so did everyone enjoy the season premiere?
Originally we had decided to forego exhibiting at this year’s Macworld Expo, but after trying to arrange meeting spots with all the folks that we wanted to meet with, we decided it’s easier to have a small booth.
So come down and say hello. We’d love to chat. We’ll be in the business and enterprise special interest pavilion – booth #566.
Oh and if you’d like a free pass or a 15% discount, go to this Macworld Expo link and fill in your details. We only have a few free exhibit passes, so grab them soon. After those are gone, the 15% discount applies.
Until next time…
AJ
It seems like you can’t use the phrase “great success” without people chuckling “haha, Borat” – but this was truly a great success for all of us at Marketcircle.
On January 20th, 2010, all proceeds from Billings Mac sales were donated to Doctors Without Borders. We were able to raise $7,000 to help with the crisis in Haiti.
And we couldn’t have done it alone.
Hats off to Second Gear and Garrett Murray for organizing the Indie+Relief event.
Hats off again (yes we’re wearing 2 hats) to our loyal customers – we couldn’t have achieved this without you either.
In total, the Indie+Relief fundraiser was able to generate $143,872 in financial aid for Haiti.
For a list of the other great software that participated in the event, check out this link.
Thanks once again!
A lot of people in our office are obsessed with the TV show LOST – so obsessed that they’ve built a LOST-related easter egg into Billings Touch. I myself have never seen the show (I know, I know), but apparently it’s about a bunch of survivors that travel forwards and backward through time.
One of the engineers is going to lend me Season One on BluRay so I can appreciate the easter egg myself (and I hear it’s an awesome show).
You can download Billings Touch for free in the App Store – so anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch can participate!
If you’ve found the easter egg, send me an email with a screenshot. If you aren’t sure how to take a screenshot, you can learn how to here.
The first three users to find the easter egg will receive a free Billings Mac license.
And so, the hunt is on!
