It's time to say goodbye. Well, not forever, but at least for the rest of this year. The Wordcrafts team will be recharging their batteries the week after Christmas. Therefore we won't be able to take on any requests.

 

We will have an emergency email address up and running during this time, however we don't expect much workload since iTunes Connect will be shut down for Christmas holiday as well.

 

And please bear in mind when sending a request to our emergency address: These mails will undergo a thorough check by our wives to assess their urgency and they will send back...
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Hey folks,

 

as you may have read on our home page, we're attending WWDC this year again.

We're doing this for two reasons: First, we are highly interested in the localization-related sessions and labs to keep up to date with the development. We are always happy to help you with your localization projects and assist you in checking whether your project is ready for localization or not. We can imagine that there are more interesting sessions for you (all this API, CoreData and Framework stuff …) so we do the job and attend those rather boring sessions for you.

 

Second reason i...
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Caution: the following text may polarize!

What is it with all those guys out there twittering from their business accounts "I have donated, you should too"? Don‘t get me wrong, donation for those in need is great, and I think everybody could save money somehow (don‘t buy a coffee at S***bucks next time or drink less beer) and donate it. And yes, it is great to remind people to donate using twitter. We all feel really sad for the people in Japan who are affected by the earthquake and tsunami and we all should offer all the help we can.

 

But please: Donate silently.

 

Donatio...
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Murphy? Who is Murphy?

Do you know Murphy’s Law? Well, when moving our website and groupware services to our own Mac machine and have it maintained in a Mac-specialized data center, we did everything we could to ensure everything would work fine from day one. Setting up the system, webserver, groupware... and testing and reviewing our new site, we finally felt ready yesterday.

 

Obviously, we were wrong: In believing that we could take the email setup for granted, we didn’t notice that a tiny little setting for the info@ address had to be changed. 

 

Having noticed our mistake...
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