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Daylite Touch wins Best Business App 2011

January 26, 2012 on 11:00 am | Ryan

We’re honoured to learn that Daylite Touch has won the Best Business App of 2011 by the Best App Ever Mobile Application Awards!

This is Daylite Touch’s second major award, the first being Macworld’s 2009 Best of Show winner.

Billings Touch also received an honourable mention under the Business category, something we’re also quite proud of :)


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Thanks & Happy Holidays!

December 23, 2011 on 2:58 pm | AJ

We appreciate your business! Without you, we simply wouldn’t be around – plain and simple.
We’ve been a bit quiet of late, however, we look forward to providing you with better products and services in 2012 and earning your continued support.

So, from the crew here at Marketcircle, I’d like to say a big Thank-You and extend a hardy, relaxing Happy Holidays and Prosperous New Year!

Happy Holidays

Until next time…
AJ & The Marketcircle Team


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Marketcircle Cloud Status page

November 17, 2011 on 11:29 am | Ryan

We’ve created a page for users to easily check on the status of Marketcircle Cloud (currently powering Billings Pro).

When we have an announcement to make about Marketcircle Cloud we’ll post it on this page. We’ll also continue to send out a tweet from the @marketcircle account with a #status tag.

Upcoming maintenance on our Cloud system will also be posted on this page.

You can bookmark the new Marketcircle Cloud Status page, or find it easily from our website’s navbar under the support header.

Thanks!


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Cloud downtime this evening.

November 14, 2011 on 5:45 pm | AJ

We are scheduling some downtime starting around 7pm EST today for about 3 hours. We need to move one of the services from an overloaded server to a new one.

You can continue using Billings Pro and Billings Pro Touch during this time. Timecard, controlpanel and new signups will be unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: Servers are back up now.

Thanks.


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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

October 5, 2011 on 11:23 pm | AJ

For the last 21 years of my life, I have been able to live a very good life doing what I love.

I’ve been able to live a comfortable lifestyle, raise a family, and generally do what I’ve wanted to do – all because of Steve Jobs and the innovations he brought forward.

I remember being attracted to NeXT computers in 1990. Not because Steve Jobs built the company (I didn’t know who he was back then), but because of what they did and the innovations they put forward.

The iPad did the same to a new generation.

No other human being has impacted the modern world as much as Steve Jobs has.

We, the people who make a living making based on Apple products, didn’t become fans of Steve Jobs because of his salesmanship or charisma – we became fans because he changed the world. And more importantly, he changed the world many times.

Rest in Peace. We will sorely miss you.

With immense gratitude and a heavy heart,

AJ & the Marketcircle Team.


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Daylite for Lawyers (new webpage)

August 16, 2011 on 12:28 pm | Ryan

We’ve recently put together a new webpage to share how lawyers can use Daylite.

The page refers to key objects in Daylite in a tone that lawyers can appreciate so that they’ll better understand some of Daylite’s concepts. You’ll find a PDF document that goes into a bit more detail, and talks about how you can use the legal industry database template to get started.

There are two videos on the page that illustrate how you can manage cases and keep track of new potential clients with Daylite.

Many lawyers use scanners to scan important documents, so we also included information and videos on our integration with Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners.

We’re also going to use this page to share any case studies from users in the law industry (there are three great stories on the page so far).

At the bottom of the page we link to two great external resources for lawyers, the Milo Group (Macs in Law Offices) and an email discussion group for lawyers using Macs called MacLaw.

So check out the page and feel free to share it with any of your friends in the industry.


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An update regarding Lion compatibility

July 19, 2011 on 6:02 pm | Ryan

*** For the latest news about Daylite, please refer to this blog post ***

Just a quick update regarding the compatibility of our products with Apple’s upcoming release of OS X Lion.

Billings Pro (Cloud) and Billings are Lion compatible

Billings Pro (Cloud)

Billings Pro 1.5.2 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is pending Apple’s approval.

Billings Pro 1.5.2 offers preliminary support for Lion, as well as French localization.

For Billings Pro Cloud users, everything is working properly.

Billings

Billings 3.7.1 is Lion compatible and now available from the Mac App Store and us directly. It also includes French localization.

If you’re using the Mac App Store version, simply quit Billings and launch the Mac App Store app, then click the “updates” button at the top.

If you’re not using the Mac App Store version you can click the “Check for Updates…” menu item in Billings for an easy in-app update, or download it from the Billings website.

Billings Pro (Self-Serve) and Daylite compatibility are in progress

Billings Pro (Self-Serve)

We’ll have a beta for Billings Pro available shortly for users (the client application, not the server).

Regarding Billings Pro Server – we’ve submitted a bug report to Apple about an issue and are awaiting their response. In the meantime we’re actively pursuing workarounds to this issue and are making good progress, but will not be releasing a beta until we are satisfied the issue has been resolved.

DO NOT UPGRADE your machine that is running Billings Pro Server to Lion – remain on Snow Leopard.

Daylite

A beta version of Daylite (including DMI) with preliminary Lion compatibility is available on our forums, here.

Regarding Daylite Server – we’ve submitted a bug report to Apple about an issue and are awaiting their response. In the meantime we’re actively pursuing workarounds to this issue and are making good progress, but will not be releasing a beta until we are satisfied the issue has been resolved.

DO NOT UPGRADE your machine that is running Daylite Server to Lion – remain on Snow Leopard.

To get the latest news:

Please refer to this page for more details on Lion compatibility.

You can follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our blog – these are the best ways to keep up with the latest Marketcircle news.

Thanks,

Ryan


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Lion Compatibility – Please wait.

July 11, 2011 on 1:19 am | AJ

Without a clear date of when Lion will ship, we want to inform you of an important, recently introduced, incompatibility. If you depend on Daylite or Billings Pro (Self Serve) for your business, you should wait to upgrade to Lion until we give it the all-clear.

The latest GM seed (GM is short for “Gold Master”, which is how Apple labels their final version of a beta) of Lion has broken a couple of things and it affects both Daylite and Billings Pro (Self Serve). Billings is fine and we will release an update shortly (3.7.1).

Both Daylite & Billings Pro (self-serve) will not connect or sync over VPN or the Internet. They work fine on a local network.

Both Daylite Server and Billings Pro Server are not able to sync with Touch devices.

We’ve submitted the issue to Apple and it’s been acknowledged as a bug in the OS.
All the workarounds we’ve attempted have come up short.

Please note that these functions worked fine until the GM seed. We had other minor issues that we have addressed in Daylite, Daylite Server 3.15 and Billings Pro, Billings Pro Server 1.5.2. Neither of these versions have been released yet because of this new issue.

Considering this seed has been labeled as a “GM”, we are not sure if there will be a second GM (which sometimes happens) or if we have to wait for 10.7.1.

In summary:

  • Billings 3.7.1 works fine on Lion
  • Billings Pro 1.5.2 with Marketcircle Cloud works fine on Lion
  • Billings Pro 1.5.2 on Lion connected to Billings Pro Server on 10.6 on the local network works fine
  • Daylite 3.15 with a personal database works fine on Lion
  • Daylite 3.15 on Lion connected to Daylite Server on 10.4/10.5/10.6 on the local network works fine
  • DMI 2.8 works fine

If you configuration falls outside of this, please wait until we give the go-ahead.

Until next time
AJ

P.S. Our Lion compatibility page is here.


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Lion compatibility

June 17, 2011 on 3:25 pm | AJ

We’ve been getting a lot of questions in regards to our products and OS X Lion compatibility.

We are putting together a detailed page on the compatibility status of all our Mac OS X products. We hope to publish this page early next week.

In general, our products are working on Lion, with some issues. We’ll have updates for Daylite, Daylite Server, DMI, Billings, Billings Pro, Billings Pro Server that will address those compatibility issues. We expect to complete most of these updates by the end of July or sooner.

So rest assured that we’ll be ready very soon after Apple releases Lion, as we’ve always done in the past with major OS updates.

Until next time…
AJ


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Billings Pro 1.5 with Cloud Public Beta available now

May 5, 2011 on 6:29 pm | AJ

A few weeks ago we announced our Cloud plans. We’re happy that a number of folks signed up for the private beta, and that things have been going well.

We’re now opening the beta up to the public. To try it out, visit this page. If you’re ok with the known issues we’ve highlighted, you can download the beta and get started. The service is completely free during the beta.

Until next time…
AJ