We’ve been working on making Tiktrac “live” since April. During this time, we’ve held off updates while we’ve gone through the process of setting up our billing system.

This took slightly longer than we anticipated, but fortunately we’ve been able put a lot of effort into Tiktrac during this time.

Before the end of the month, we’ll be deploying:

• Time zone support
• Monthly “targets”—something contractors will appreciate
• SSL—Tiktrac will work over secure connections
• A more consistent, dynamic and refined interface
• Interface and usability tweaks for every feature
• Inline help:
• Bug fixes to improve reliability and speed
• 100% test code coverage—all of our code is now covered by tests

Payments

• Payments for Tiktrac will be made with credit card
• You will be billed monthly
• We will calculate tax where companies are based in the UK and EU, else you are expect…

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You might have noticed Helipad was inaccessible today (around 7AM-1PM GMT.) Please accept our sincerest apologies for any problems caused by the outage. Helipad was actually alive and well, but the DNS server was down (the server that translates pad.helicoid.net to a real address.)

The downtime was completely my fault: I should have changed our DNS provider a long time ago, but work on Tiktrac and Ebiwrite took priority. We’ll move to our DNS services to a better provider soon, so you should continue to enjoy a high level of service for Helipad.

Helipad actually has a few updates in the works. We’ve experimented with Helipad and OpenID, and it’s working well.

Despite being so simple, Helipad is our most popular product. We all use it, and our friends do too! As always, please get in touch if you have any feature requests or stories about how you use it.

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We are pleased to announce that Tiktrac has finished its beta trial.

Beta testers have all been granted two months on the premium price plan (this includes 1000 sheets, branding features and secure access over SSL.)

Tiktrac’s launch also sees the release of a refreshed interface detailed below.

New features

• Click to edit tasks – click once to get the full task editor in a pop-up!
• Quickly delete tasks – click the trash can icon to remove a task without leaving a sheet
• You can now create targets for sheets, allowing you to easily see your progress for the month – a feature contractors and agencies will appreciate!
• Tasks now look the same everywhere, and are editable everywhere too
• Time-zone are now supported
• A new contextual help system providing concise help and tips – great for new users and your clients

Targets

The new targets features is especially useful for contractors and agencies. You can quickly see how close yo…

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