NoteBook Discussion Forums: General

Join us on Facebook (by Jayson)

Jayson — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:23:47 +0000

Hello,

Join Circus Ponies Software on Facebook and become a fan. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook in Macworld Back-to-School Article (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:11:45 +0000

Hello,

A Macworld intern put together a college back-to-school list that includes NoteBook. Here’s the full article.

Best,

__jayson

Macworld Review - NoteBook 3.0 (4.5 Mice) (by Jayson)

Jayson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:32:40 +0000

Hello,

Macworld magazine reviewed NoteBook 3.0, giving it 4.5 mice out of 5. You can read the review here.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook 3.0 now in French, German, and Italian (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:10:25 +0000

Hello,

If French or German is your first language, you’ll be happy to know that we just posted an update to NoteBook that includes French and German localizations, including a localized user guide. This is a free update for all users, available from our downloads page.

We have also partnered with Active Software in Italy to produce an Italian version of NoteBook 3.0. Active Software specializes in Italian language localizations of software and user manuals, and distributes Mac software titles in Italy. Please contact Active Software for pricing and availability.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook Demo, Santa Monica Apple Store, 2/4/09 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:26:46 +0000

Hello,

For those of you in the Los Angeles area, I’ll be giving a NoteBook 3.0 demo next Wednesday:

Where - Apple Store, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
When - Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7PM

If you’re looking for a refresher course in all that NoteBook can do, or in just seeing some of the new NoteBook 3.0 features in action, please stop by!

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook 3.0 v337 now available (by Jayson)

Jayson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:04:38 +0000

Hello,

NoteBook 3.0 v337 is now available for download. It fixes several issues present in v335 – see the Recent Changes page for more information.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook 3.0 v335 now available (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:11:23 +0000

Hello,

NoteBook 3.0 v335 is now available for download. It fixes several issues present in v334 – see the Recent Changes page for more information.

If you encounter problems with NoteBook 3.0, or have feature requests, please be sure to let us know about them using the support form. It is certainly OK to discuss issues and features here in the forums – just know that the support queue is the system we use to track them (in other words, if it’s not sent to support we may not know about it). We do respond to all support requests, and do as quickly as possible.

__jayson

Update on NoteBook 3.0 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:59:40 +0000

Hello,

Well, to paraphrase a President, our long national nightmare appears to be over. Our website finally looks ready to support the 3.0 release, and we plan to ship NoteBook 3.0 very soon (as I’ve mentioned before, we don’t release new software on Fridays).

For anyone who wants to beat the rush, NoteBook 3.0 upgrades are available right now from our online store. You will need your 19-character NoteBook 2 license key – if you don’t have it handy you can use the auto-retrieval page to have it re-sent to you (if it’s registered with us). You won’t be able to download the software today, but you will have your 3.0 key when it does become available. This is just an option we’re making available today – there is no problem or downside to choosing to wait to purchase your upgrade key.

For those of you who purchased NoteBook 2.1 this year from our online store, your free upgrade key will be automatically added to your customer account. When NoteBook 3.0 becomes available there will be information on how to retrieve your 3.0 key (and purchases of NoteBook 2.1 between now and when we release NoteBook 3.0 will still upgrade for free).

For those of you who purchased the boxed edition of NoteBook 2.0 or 2.1 this year, you can receive a free 3.0 upgrade by following the instructions in the 3.0 upgrade form . Again, if you purchased NoteBook 2.1 from our online store, you will automatically receive your NoteBook 3.0 upgrade key – you do not need to and should not complete this form.

Best,

__jayson

Welcome to the new forums! (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:05:49 +0000

Hello,

Welcome to the new NoteBook Discussion Forums! We’re happy to have the forums hosted directly from the Circus Ponies website, and we hope you like the new, updated look.

Your new forums account retains your screen name but your login name is the e-mail address associated with your old forums account. Your new account has been assigned a temporary password – use the password retrieval link located on the login page to retrieve it. Once you’ve logged in using your temporary password you can change your password to whatever you like.

If you have any problems accessing your new account, contact us at info@circusponies.com.

Best,

__jayson 
President
Circus Ponies Software, Inc.

NoteBook 3.0 - Schedule Update #3 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:21:25 +0000

Hello,

Thank you to everyone patiently waiting for NoteBook 3.0. The good news is we are releasing the 3.0 software to manufacturing (disc duplication) tomorrow, September 2. One of the big features we had announced -- native support for tables -- won't be in the initial 3.0 release. We decided that it's better to ship 3.0 without tables and to include them in a near-term update than to see the software slip even more than it already has. We hope you agree this was the right decision.

The not-so-good news is the website is behind schedule, specifically the changes needed to support vending of 3.0 license keys and upgrading of 2.1 license keys. I should receive an update tomorrow (today being a holiday) on its status. I also want to mention that we restrict new software releases to certain days of the week. For example we never release new software on Fridays, so if the website were to come together by the end of this week we would be looking to launch 3.0 sometime next week.

The completion of the website work and launch window constraints makes it hard to declare when 3.0 will go live. To be safe I'm going to say it will happen within the next two weeks. It should not take two weeks to get the website ready, but stranger things have happened during this release cycle. Thank you again for your patience.

Best,

__jayson

IMPORTANT: Please update your Forums account (by Jayson)

Jayson — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:54:39 +0000

Hello,

I mentioned in a previous post that we're working on bringing a new discussion forums online. In the new forums, the e-mail address associated with your current forums account will be your new login name, so it's important that you update your forums account to a current e-mail address. Please do this as soon as possible.

When the switchover takes place, your new account will have a random password assigned. When you request your password it will be sent to your e-mail address - another reason to have your e-mail address updated.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook 3.0 - Schedule Update #2 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:40:41 +0000

Hello,

I promised 4 weeks ago to check in again and let you know how NoteBook 3.0 is coming along. Beta testing has been going well and we plan to ship NoteBook 3.0 at the end of August. Over the coming weeks we should be able to pin down an exact date, as well as provide information about obtaining your free NoteBook 3.0 upgrades (for those of you who purchased NoteBook 2.1 this year).

Lastly, we had hoped to have the new forums up by now but progress on that project has slipped. The new forums will go live either in the next two weeks, or at some point after 3.0 ships.

Best,

__jayson

NoteBook 3.0 - Schedule Update (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:03:24 +0000

Hello,

We had announced a ship date for NoteBook 3.0 of "second quarter 2008" — the second quarter ended yesterday, so we obviously missed that date. I know many of you are disappointed to not see NoteBook 3.0 on the downloads page. We've been working flat out since Macworld and are disappointed to not have it ready for you.

So what's behind the delay? Part is how software development projects tend to fall behind (a great example is Apple's 4-month delay in shipping Leopard). Part has nothing to do with writing software. For example, we decided it was important to upgrade some of our support systems here at Circus Ponies to coincide with the 3.0 release. We recently brought a new technical support tracking system online, which will allow us to maintain the same level of support you're used to as we add more and more customers. We've also been working on revamping the NoteBook Discussion Forums — more news about that in the coming weeks. These are important infrastructure improvements but they have taken time away from 3.0 development.

A best guess for a ship date for NoteBook 3.0 is 6 to 8 weeks from today. I will report back to you in 4 weeks to let you know how things are coming along. Thank you for your patience and understanding. We are all working hard for you.

Best,

Jayson Adams
President
Circus Ponies Software, Inc.

Forums unavailable June 17 - 18 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:23:36 +0000

Hello all,

Groupee (the company that hosts this discussion site) is moving to a new data center. As a result, the NoteBook Discussion Forums will be down starting June 17th at 6PM PDT, for up to 24 hours.

__jayson

Circus Ponies Announces NoteBook 3.0 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:07:18 +0000

Hello all,

We announced NoteBook 3.0 today. Here's a link to a page that describes it:

http://www.circusponies.com/notebook30.html

and here's a link to the press release:

http://www.circusponies.com/press/NoteBook30PressRelease.pdf

Best,

__jayson

Please join us at Macworld 2008 (by Jayson)

Jayson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:45:39 +0000

Hello,

We're excited to again be part of Macworld (January 15-18, 2008, in San Francisco), the biggest Mac event of the year. Please join us there as our personal guest, with a $35 discount off admittance to the Exhibit Hall. We'll be in booth S-537, giving demos and serving up our legendary Circus Ponies trade show hospitality.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Best,

Jayson Adams

President
Circus Ponies Software, Inc.

P.S.: Here's a show floor map, so it's easy to find us.

Happy Birthday NoteBook! (by Jayson)

Jayson — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:51:02 +0000

For those of you who may not check our home page that often, this month (April) we're celebrating NoteBook's 15th birthday. Check out this press release, where I talk a little bit about the past, present and future of NoteBook.

__jayson

Please join us at Macworld (commented by Jayson)

Jayson — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:23:21 +0000

And here's a show floor map so it's easy to find us.

__jayson

Please join us at Macworld (by Jayson)

Jayson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:04:56 +0000

Hello,

We're excited to be part of Macworld (January 8-12, 2007, in San Francisco), the biggest Mac event of the year. Please join us there as our personal guest, with FREE admittance to the Exhibit Hall. We'll be in booth # S2712, giving demos and serving up our legendary Circus Ponies trade show hospitality.

To receive your free Exhibit Hall pass, please register online at

http://www.macworldexpo.com/register

and enter the priority code

PC0464

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco.

Warm regards,

Jayson Adams

President
Circus Ponies Software, Inc.

MacVoices Round-Table Discussion (by Jayson)

Jayson — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:23:11 +0000

Hello all,

For the 100th MacVoices show, I was one of four Mac developers invited to participate in a round table discussion (the other three were John Nack, Photoshop Senior Product Manager at Adobe, Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones Software, and Paul Kafasis, co-founder of Rogue Amoeba Software). We talked about the state of software development today and our relationships, as developers, with Apple; the impact of the Internet and the iPod on our businesses; where the next killer app will come from; the long-term viability of the Macintosh platform; and more.

Best,

__jayson