Today is an unfortunate day. None of the few writers that replied has shown anything worthwhile. They did not get back to me or didn't write a review as promised. Under those circumstances my only option is to close this blog for the time being. I have one last review from Brendan that I will put up in the following days, but after that that's it for now. Maybe I will find the time to write here again in the future. I sincerely hope so, because although this was a short endeavour it was fun and the feedback I got was great. Brendan got a job as writer at Macworld from this, so I guess it wasn't for nothing.

I bid you all a good time and you Brendan I wish the best of luck with your future writings at Macworld or any other site.

Author: Alexander Kucera

As some of you might have noticed, our post frequency has slowed down considerably. Both Brendan and I don't have the time we would like to have to put into this blog at the moment. Writing detailed reviews is something that takes quite a bit of time, because we have to test a software for a while to be able to write an objective review about it. And as this site is a non-profit project and we both have demanding day jobs time gets a precious commodity.

But we both believe in this site and think that we have something worthy of preservation here. That is why, instead of giving up, we want to expand. Yes, you heard right. We would like to get one or two additional writers on board that help us to fill this blog with more regular content.

A successful prospect would be an Apple aficionado that likes to talk about Mac and iPhone software. You don't have to be a professional writer, just someone passionate about getting the word out for great software. The frequency we expect from you is about one post every week.

We cannot offer you payment as we ourselves don't get any. What we can offer, is that you sometimes get the inside view on new software developments and that you will be able to test closed betas. For example, we are testing the newest release of Tweetie, Eventbox and maybe LittleSnapper Touch at the moment. If that sort of thing gets you all fidgety, please drop us a line with the subject "Spinning Beachball Writer".

Ideally, you should have a few writing samples so we can get an idea of your writing style and a short CV so we get to know you a little better. If you don’t have anything written yet, you might offer to write a test review for us. Please contact us for the review guidelines.

Author: Alexander Kucera

Yesterday, a little error crept into our site configuration, which lead to a password prompt when someone tried to access the site. We have corrected it this morning and offer our deepest apologies if you have problems reading the site yesterday. We hope everything is working again. If you still have problems with the site let us know via the contact form or shoot me an e-mail at: a (dot) kucera (at) babylondreams (dot) de

Author: Alexander Kucera

Just a quick heads up everybody. I am not very happy with the current commenting system, JS-Kit and I will try to implement a new system over the weekend called Disqus. Commenting might be flakey during the next few days, but the general site content should not suffer. Everything is supposed to be back to normal on Monday. Please bear with me.

I will leave the JS-Kit code in the old posts, so the comments will still work for now. At a later date I will probably merge those older comments with the posts and disable commenting on them.

Author: Alexander Kucera

Hello dear readers. We hope you had a very nice New Year's Eve and wish you all the best for 2009.

We will take up regular business next week with two articles per week as before. Look forward to lots of nice application reviews and more giveaways.

Author: Alexander Kucera

We wish you, our readers, a very nice holiday season. Enjoy your time with the family and all the good food. We will do the same.

For the next few days there won't be any new reviews, simply because I am away from the computer and enjoy a bit of free time. I expect to resume posting either next week or in the new year. Until then…

Author: Alexander Kucera

I just wanted to give a little thank you to some very supportive developers. The guys at Realmac Software, Mariner Software, Koingo Software and Agile Web Solutions were nice enough to provide me with giveaway licenses for a lot of their products. I will be reviewing these products in the coming articles (except LittleSnapper, which I already did in my first review) and each review will be accompanied by the according giveaway license.

I think it is a great feat of the Mac software community to support the small guy. I don't have a big name and the blog was not even there when I asked those developers about their support. Nevertheless, these guys showed great enthusiasm and were eager to help me out. Some of them going overboard and providing me with extra licenses that I didn't even ask for.

So to make things short. Thank you guys for your support. I greatly appreciate it.

Author: Alexander Kucera

Well, first posts are never great to write. So let's just wait for the second post.

Author: Alexander Kucera