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A thought that I have every time I wake up in the morning:

Software business is one of the few industries in the universe that can make people feel they are special and they live to enjoy their lives. The on-line business unlike any other gives us a chance to do it from any part of the world. And what’s more, pretty much anyone can do it. You don’t need an overly huge budget to start up. All you need is a bright idea.

Isn’t it nice being able to do the work you enjoy doing from the location that you enjoy staying at? Permanently.
Be it from a wooden house in a forest near Anchorage, Alaska or from a skyscraper in Frankfurt.

You choose your location. You choose your time schedule. You choose your destiny.

It makes my day! Every day!
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TheBat! from RitLabs used to be the best email client for individuals and small business since ‘97 and until last year. There was simply no better solution that would be as compelling in price and features. We too have purchased the licenses and used these over some time. But as the time goes on new alternatives are being developed and made available to public for free. Moreover TheBat versions we used are no longer meeting our feature requirements. In order to get these new features and bug fixes, we would need to purchase an upgrade.

Thunderbird, as we discovered was flexible and feature-rich enough to meet all our requirements. So why pay for an upgrade if we can get a nice equivalent for free?

As an overall, I do not see a big business potential in shareware e-mail clients. The future looks towards web-based email for personal communication, Thunderbird as the most frequently used client in small business and MS Outlook as the main communication/collaboration tool for medium business and enterprise. (more…)

We regularly get posts like this:

Hello.

I don’t see a use for this software. If you don’t remember your (eugene: Google Talk) password, you can click on “I forgot my password” and reset it (by answering a question or receiving a link at your secondary address).

It feels nice to know that our software is useless. So what if:

1. You don’t remember your answer to the secret question
2. Secondary address was not specified during registration

…how do you recover your password in this case?
Other scenario:

I am a father of a young daughter and suspect she’s chatting to some unappropriate people about some unappropriate things. I have the right to know if that’s true (at least until she’s 18!). I want my daughter to be safe.

So what do I do then? Use the “secret question” feature? Yeah, right, I wish I knew the answer.

Our software is made for cases like that.