News

The 75% special offer in the Mac App Store ended on August 1 after a two week run.

Thank you to all who purchased TypeIt4Me and made it climb high in the Mac App Store charts.

The price has now reverted to the normal $19.99 both in the Mac App Store and directly from http://ettoresoftware.com

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally updated BigBen with some hi-res photos and professionally recorded chimes.

It now plays every quarter and correctly starts the chime on the hour, to end in time for the first bong to play as the clock strikes the hour.

Check it out here and tell all your friends.

Apple has not yet provided a way for developers to transfer existing licences to the Mac App Store. Our intention, for now, is to continue publishing TypeIt4Me both directly via our website and via the Mac App Store.

The only difference between the two versions is that one handles registrations and updates via Sparkle, while Apple handles those things for us in the Mac App Store version.

The version 5.0.5(30) update became available through our website six days before appearing on the Mac App Store.

We released TypeIt4Me 5.0.5 (30) a few minutes ago, just in time to see in the New Year… in New Zealand’s timezone :-)

You can peruse this page if you want to find out what’s new:
http://ettoresoftware.com/download/Release-Notes30.html

Or this one to check out how our Kiwi friends are celebrating the start of 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12097984

Wishing you all the very best for 2011,

Riccardo and the rest of the crew at Ettore Software.

Hello, hello. We just wanted to give you all a brief update to let you know what we’re currently up to here at Ettore Towers. Understandably, some of you may have interpreted our recent quietness as a bit of a lull in development activity; rest assured, however, that this couldn’t be further from the truth. The hamster never stops spinning in its wheel round these parts – our cosy little office has been buzzing with frenzied activity. So here’s the skinny:

• We’re continuing to refine our much cherished, long-standing flagship product TypeIt4Me – like good wine, it just gets better with age – and there are some new features in the pipeline.

• We have a nice surprise up our sleeve for Italian would-be TypeIt4Me customers. Stay tuned…

• We’ve been throwing around some ideas for a couple of nifty new iPhone apps that we think you’ll really like. Such things take time to develop properly though, so we hope you’ll bear with us. Without wanting to lay the corny platitudes on too thick: good apps come to those who wait. These puppies will be more sophisticated than our initial forays into app creation.

• …Speaking of Xylophone et al, we didn’t sleep through uncle Steve’s presentation last week, either: you can expect some updates to our existing suite of apps, as soon as we have a spare pair of hands to deal with them. Mmmmm, retina display.

Good news, everyone! Our new website has launched. It’s received a complete overhaul – a quantum leap forward to version 2.0 (version 1.0 was in need of more than just a spit and polish). We’re well aware there’s still plenty more to be done, of course, so we won’t be resting on our laurels. Do keep stopping by from time to time: we’ll be adding further sections in the coming weeks and months to flesh out the existing customer support content. We will most likely also be doing the odd special promotion, with limited time offer cut-price software bundles and such.

…What, did you think we were going to send you on a suicidal mission to deliver post-it notes to the Galaxy of Flesh-eating Space Squids or something? =D

We’ve been very busy getting a new website together and it’s almost ready. It’s still very much a work in progress, but we hope you’ll agree it’s an improvement on the previous incarnation. We’re working hard to bring you screencasts, tutorials and a whole lot of new goodies. Please bear with us, we’re a very small team. So small, in fact, that if we climbed into a petri dish you’d probably still need some sort of scanning electron microscope to see us.