AtD Updates – Prices, New App, and Rules (of course)
It’s been another busy week for After the Deadline. Here are the updates:
New Application: RoundCube Webmail
After the Deadline is now available for the RoundCube Webmail program. This thing is a slick web-based client that can talk to any IMAP server. I tried it with my GMail account and I am thinking of switching over to it. Having After the Deadline available helps too.
Since the plugin is new, it needs a patch to the RoundCube code. Applying the patch is easy and hopefully the RoundCube team will accept my patch as it benefits other TinyMCE plugins. Visit the Download page to get the plugin.
Rule Updates
Several new rules have made it into the grammar checker. After the Deadline now checks for simple forms of subject-verb agreement errors:
I has to show you something.
We am far away from home.
AtD also does a better job of picking up wrong verb tenses after to such as:
I have to gone now. (corrects to, have to be gone or have to go)
I also expanded the rules for the confused words and added more rules for incorrect tense errors. A solid update this week.
Pricing Updates
I received several emails about the pricing. It’s nice to know you care enough to communicate. The confusion came over the casual use term. I decided to do away with this and follow suit with Akismet. After the Deadline is now free for personal use. I don’t care if you use 100 or 1,000 requests in a month, so long as it’s you doing it.
On the commercial side, I flattened the pricing tiers. You can purchase 500, 1000, 2500, or 5000 requests per month for $0.01/request. Yes, a penny per request. Imagine if Microsoft Word was that cheap! I did this because I plan to expand After the Deadline to more applications and building pricing around how much a blogger uses AtD doesn’t make sense.
This should clarify things. Remember, when you buy a service plan for After the Deadline you’re investing in your craft and supporting the continued development of this technology.
Don’t Forget
I’m presenting AtD at the Ann Arbor, MI New Tech meetup this coming Tuesday. Come out and say hi. I know I have a few MI users out there.