Month: August 2011

When should we release Spin Rewriter?

August 23, 2011 /

We’ve been working really really REALLY hard on Spin Rewriter for almost a year now and we’re super anxious to finally … “set it free”. The Beta Program turned out to be an absolute success and with the feedback we’ve been getting lately we’re completely confident that we’re bringing a game changer to the market.

So, when will we release Spin Rewriter to everyone interested? We’re thinking of doing a quiet launch in the last days of August, maybe on August 30th. Should we do it? Time will tell! 😀

No more “Whoops, where did it go?!”

August 19, 2011 /

I wrote about a functionality that was requested by a couple of our Beta Testers about a week ago – our users demanded something that would prevent them from losing all their hard work if they accidentally pressed the “back” button or somehow left Spin Rewriter’s Edit Mode without saving their progress.

We just improved Spin Rewriter’s user interface and added what was requested – from now on you can no longer accidentally lose your progress. Whether you click the “previous page” / “next page” button, refresh the page, click on a link or close your browser while you’re in Edit Mode, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do that. This way you can feel safe and happily click on everything you want, and you’ll never lose your hard work.

Try it out! 😀

Prevent users from accidentally leaving the page [JavaScript]

August 18, 2011 /

Sometimes your users might lose important information that they’ve been working on by accidentally leaving the page. They can either press the “previous page” or “next page” button by accident, or they can hit the “backspace” key on their keyboard, inadvertently click a link etc.

Luckily you can prevent them from losing their progress by using the following bit of JavaScript code:

window.onbeforeunload = function() {
    if (your_users_might_lose_their_work) {
        dialog_text = "IMPORTANT: Are you sure you want to leave this page?\n\n";
        dialog_text += "WARNING: If you leave this page, you will lose all your current progress.";
        return dialog_text;
    }
};

This code works perfectly fine with all modern browsers, with one small disclaimer: Firefox will not show your custom warning to your users, instead it will simply state “This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave – data you have entered may not be saved.” However, that’s exactly what you usually want to say in this situation anyway.

What a lovely Sunday!

August 14, 2011 /

I couldn’t be much happier right now … Everything’s great, we’re making great progress, we’re getting ready to finally launch Spin Rewriter to the general public and I was relaxing at the beach, lazily checking my email inbox on this lovely Sunday when I received yet another brilliant testimonial from one of our Beta Testers:

“I have been testing spinrewriter and its pretty damn good. Still a few tweaks to work out with some phrases that it creates but definitely better than anything I have ever seen.”

We’ve been getting more and more feedback just like this one lately and we couldn’t be happier. Our unique approach is turning out to be exactly what we thought it would be, and we’ll be bringing the Number 1 Rewriting Software to the market very very soon.

Once again, stay tuned! 😀

Love you all! 😀

We’re getting a ton of suggestions – a big Thank You!

August 11, 2011 /

I just wanted to once again publicly thank all of our Beta Testers who are doing incredible work in helping us make a superb product!

We’re constantly getting great feedback and based on this feedback we’ll be soon be adding great little tweaks such as:

– While users are in the Edit Mode (actively working on their articles), they will be warned if they click the “previous page” or “next page” button in their web browser or they want to leave the page without saving their progress. What does this mean? It means that our users will never lose their hard work and all the rewriting progress they’ve done with their articles by accidentally pressing the “backspace” key on their keyboards which takes you to the previous page.

– Users will soon be able to select phrases that span over punctuation marks, e.g. they will be able to select the phrase “the red, white and blue” that they currently cannot and replace it with “the American flag”.

– Users will be able to simply click on the underscore (underline) of already suggested phrases to select them, instead of manually selecting them by dragging their mouse over them.

As you can see, we’re working pretty hard, so – stay tuned! 😀