Twisted Melon - The News

UPDATE: Closing out the 12 Sales of Christmas with a bang

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Today we're offering our most ambitious promotion ever. Along with steep discounts we're doing something special. Giving away as-yet unreleased products. Yes, multiple products - both hardware and software. If you buy anything from us during this extra-special promotion you will receive absolutely free, one of every new product we release this year, regardless of what its retail price will be (including free shipping). What we can't do right now is discuss what's coming along nor when the release dates will be. But we promise you'll be very pleased.

The 12 Sales of Christmas - Every day something different

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Customers visiting us over the past couple of years may remember that we usually offer some type of discount or sale at this time of year. In fact we've often done multiple promotions, having participated in MacSanta since its inception. This year MacSanta wasn't to be and instead of waiting until our normal after-Christmas boxing day or boxing week sale, we've decided to do something different.

For the next 12 days we'll be offering a random assortment of discounts. They won't be announced in advance, so you'll have to visit on any specific day to see that day's deal.

Shipping discounts, free shipping, percentage discount on a specific product, percentage discount on whole cart, freebies, one super-secret bonus gift and more - visit to find out what's happening on any given day.

The daily schedule won't run on a fixed 24-hour timetable, so you may see two different deals on the same day depending at what times you visit. When it's over it's over. We're sorry, but no rainchecks.

Lower shipping rates for international destinations

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

We're pleased to announce that we've lowered shipping rates to most countries worldwide (excluding USA and Canada). The decrease is modest, but significant nonetheless in consideration of ever-increasing rates and add-on fuel surcharges imposed by the carriers. These rates should be effective through-out the new year.

At the same time, we have equalized shipping through-out Canada so that every locale in every province will now pay the same rate. This lowers the price for more than half the provinces, but increases it for the others. We were charging less than our cost for shipping to many destinations and at this time we simply can't continue doing so. If you have a problem with Canadian shipping rates, please accept our sincere apologies, but Canada Post simply charges much more for shipping within the country than it does to the outside. We hope this situation will be able to change in the new year as we look for alternate carriers to service our customers.

Mira version 1.3.3 Released - ¿Habla Español?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0500

We asked and you answered. Thanks to our good friend Angel Bujosa Bestard, Mira now speaks Spanish. It's been a long time coming and we're extremely happy it's now in place at least in the main application. If you'd like to see Mira translated to your language, please let us know by sneding us feedback.

A couple of new built-in profiles have also been added, one for Boxee and another for OpenOffice. Some tweaks and small changes round out this update, including one important one to the installer which will help prevent any installation mixups with older versions.

Spanish UI localization (thank you Angel)
Built-in support for additional applications
- Boxee Media Center
- OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org
Revised profiles and DuoPress versions
Minor internal clean-up and file size reductions
Pre-installation clean-up script to deal with previous install

Please see the Version History page for additional details. This update is recommended for all customers.

Tiny HUGE Sale 3 + One Week Prize Giveaway

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:00:00 -0500

The third annual Twisted Melon Birthday Blowout Sale is here. For a tiny amount of time you can buy any of our products for HUGE savings.

A lot has changed over this past year, not the least of which was moving to a new home and getting married in late April. It's been hectic at times and with its share of hardships, but overall, 2008 has been good to our family.

More recently we were very pleased to release our unfortunately delayed series of updates to bring Mira to a compatible level with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. There are more updates coming in the weeks ahead and hopefully a bit more good news early next year (stay tuned). As we've done for the past two years, we're passing along good fortune and wishes to all our friends around the world and offering the contents of our store at a discount. For the second time we're also going to be giving away some prizes which you can see below. It's the perfect opportunity to pick up an extra Mira license for an additional computer or our Manta TR1 IR transceiver to add support for the Apple remote to any USB Mac (with Mira). If you can't take advantage of the savings yourself, pass the word on to a someone else.

The sale will run from 12am (00:00) EST on Saturday November 8 2008 and last 24 hours. The prize giveaway will run for one week with winners announced November 21st.

Prizes:

1st - iPod Touch 8GB
2nd - iPod Nano 8GB
2x Daily - Your Order Free
1x Daily - Free ExpressPost Shipping
2x Daily - Free Shipping
5x Daily - Upgraded Shipping

All orders from 12am (00:00) EST on Thursday November 8 until 12am (00:00) EST on November 15th qualify for random selection to determine prize recipients.

A big THANK YOU goes out to all our friends and customers for supporting our company and choosing our products. We really appreciate your business, advice, insight, comments and dedication.

We'd really appreciate it if you'd pass the word along to some additional people in whatever way you'd like (a nice blog or news posting would be amazing :)

Looking for the words

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

The latest Mira update brings its localization support to 9 regions, comprised of 8 languages. But we're not done.

New localizations/languages we'd like to add immediately:
- Spanish
- Catalan
- Russian

We had a couple of offers for the above, but unfortunately they fell through. If you think you can help to localize Mira to one of these languages, please contact us. We're very much interested in a community effort on this task rather than being contacted by professional translation companies.

Mira version 1.3.2 Released - Small tweaks

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0400

We're happy to announce a small update to Mira, version 1.3.2. This release notably adds built-in support for Plex Media Center and Brazilian Portuguese localization (thanks to Bruno Casarini Grillo)

Apart from the above, we've also updated the built-in icon for Front Row (so you can see an icon regardless of what Front Row version you're using), internally tuned up a few profiles and removed a pesky left-over console message some people were seeing.

Because we missed some details in the last release news item, the abridged version information for 1.3.x up until now is:

Stable Mac OS 10.5.x Leopard release
Brazilian Portuguese UI localization
Built-in support for additional applications
New and Updated Profiles and DuoPress actions for
- DVD Player
- iTunes
- Neo Office
- iView Media Pro
- Front Row
- PowerPoint
Revised Profiles, DuoPress actions and installer
Double actions or unexpected Front Row launch due to Apple Secure Event Input bug
Missing Application profiles
Possible hangs/crashes during
- Restore Built-in Profiles
- Install
- Uninstall
- Closing System Preferences
Front Row icon
iTunes didn't start playing after Fast-Forward
Clean up console logging messages/errors

Please see the Version History page for additional details. This update is recommended for all customers.

Listed currency changing back to USD

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0400

A year ago we changed over our online accounting and pricing to Canadian Dollars due to the sharp decline in the US Dollar. We struggled with the decision, but in the end it was something we had to do. The past quarter has shown some increased stability in the US dollar and it's been holding its position against the Canadian favorably.

We feel comfortable having watched the foreign exchange market for some time, that we're pleased to announce that pricing will once again return to a USD base. As of Friday October 10th, all pricing in our online shopping system will be listed and charged in US Dollars. As usual, foreign currency transactions will continue to be converted by our payment processor.

Thank you for your previous feedback on this topic, we're sure very many customers will be pleased to resume doing business in USD.

Mira version 1.3.1 Released - Taming the Leopard

Thu, 17 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0400

As you may have noticed, Mira 1.3.1 has been released and includes compatibility updates for Mac OS 10.5.x Leopard. The most important of the updates is a built-in mechanism to work around the Apple bug that has caused double-actions for many people.

For now, download the new version and ENJOY!