Kizmeta

Gmail + Remember the Milk = Joy

2007-12-27T18:08:00.000-08:00

Google recently released an unofficial/official interface for Gmail hackers. This has merged two of my favorite web apps (besides Scrap Ease, of course) - Gmail and Remember the Milk. Now you can have a sidebar in Gmail to add tasks to your RTM account. Great stuff.

Read the RTM blog post for lots more info.

Web Monkeys and Instant Demo

2007-07-11T22:10:00.000-07:00

We pushed out several updates and bug fixes today, so hopefully no one was in the middle of their scrapbook masterpiece. If you were, yell here: matt[@]scrapease.com.

If you look carefully you will find several subtle interface improvements and one big new feature: an Instant Demo. You can try out Scrap Ease without even signing up. Just click the Instant Demo on the front page and you're set!

Keywords made easy

2007-07-15T11:47:00.001-07:00

You can now select images and use the pop down box to add and delete keywords from multiple images at the same time. You can even add new keywords from the pop down. It makes managing your photo keywords super easy.

High Resolution Update

2007-07-24T06:59:00.000-07:00

For those of you waiting for the high-res versions of your pages, I have good news and bad news. The good news is: the high resolution test pages we have generated, look *fantastic*. The bad news is: The process that generates the high res pages is computationally expensive. Basically, it takes the servers a long time and a lot of crunching to generate the high res version of each page. Because of this, we can't flip the switch and enable it quite yet. We are reworking the way the pages get generated and hopefully we can get the process down in time and system usage. Stay tuned!

Thanks for your patience. It will be worth the wait!

New Team Member Mirabella

2007-03-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

We finally got around to updating the "About Us" page on ScrapEase to include Mirabella!

Making online digital scrapbooking even better

2007-02-19T09:44:00.000-08:00

We wanted to give everyone a taste of what is coming soon in Scrap Ease.

Get notified when someone comments on your albums.
A re-designed, refined interface for organizing your albums.
Add multiple images more easily.
Upload scans of your existing scrapbooks.
Groups and layers in the Page Editor - move embellishments and photos around more easily with these two awesome enhancements to the page editor.

We are excited about the changes that are coming. If you have any ideas for Scrap Ease, you can share them in our forums: ScrapEase.com/forums. You can always reach us via the contact page or by contacting us at scrapease [at] scrapease.com.

Ten New Kits

2007-02-08T16:39:00.001-08:00

We have ten new kits!!!!!!!!!! Remember, if you want to make some kits for Scrap Ease, contact us

Seasonal:

FALL

BACK TO SCHOOL

WINTER

Holidays:

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN

KIDS HALLOWEEN

THANKSGIVING

CHRISTMAS

Baby Kits:

BABY GIRL

BABY BOY

BABY PASTELS

Go check them out at Scrap Ease!

Growing Pains

2007-02-08T16:20:00.001-08:00

We had a couple of issues this week with mail and signups. Both are fixed and should not reoccur. So if you couldn't sign up on Scrap Ease, try again!

Forums and Comments

2007-02-08T16:17:00.001-08:00

We just rolled out two new features on Scrap Ease:

Forums - Discuss scrapbooking and Scrap Ease on our forums. They aren't full featured yet, but we will continue improving all aspects of the site as we get feedback. So let us know what you think.

Comments - Leave a comment on any of the scrapbook albums you find on Scrap Ease.

We have a lot more in store for Scrap Ease. Keep an eye out!

The Life and Times of an Overly Busy Me

2006-10-30T10:37:00.000-08:00

Keeping up with a blog is hard. It takes time away from the million other things that I *should* be doing. I think it is important though. From a personal point of view, it allows me to record moments of my life as they pass by so quickly. From a business point of view, I believe it shows our customers that we are real people and creates a rapport with them.

Here are some of the life events that have kept me busy lately:

FAMILY - My father made it through heart bypass surgery successfully. He is 10 days out now and recovering at home. I flew back to central Missouri to be there for the surgery and I'm glad I did. I was able to visit with my sister, who I haven't seen in several years, and be there for my mom and my dad while he was recovering in the hospital.

FAMILY - I hope the baby doesn't come too soon. If she takes after her parents at all, though, she'll be late! I still have a car seat to install, an apartment to organize and clean, a room to decorate, and all the myriad of other baby prep stuff I have been postponing . Babies come with a concise howto right?

BUSINESS - Launching a web application takes a large amount of nurturing. Like a baby I guess. Wait I think I hear little ScrapEase -- she must be hungry....

Obliterating the Blurry Bug

2006-10-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

Several people reported that the pages were looking "blurry."

Upon investigation, pages indeed were mysteriously blurry.

Well, consider it fixed. BLURRY BUGS BE GONE!!!

Yay, Kits!

2006-10-12T10:39:00.000-07:00

I am excited to say that more kits are on the way. Kits for baby, Halloween, fall, back to school, and more! Hooray!

First faltering steps

2006-10-11T11:44:00.000-07:00

Well, we sent out beta testing invitations and got a few responses. Not a lot of feedback yet, but I think people are still figuring it out. I can't wait until we have our guided tour ready to go. The tutorial album needs a lot of work, but at least there's something there. I wonder though if people have been skipping it. Hmmm.

We had server problems last night. Of course, we have no problems with the company we get our servers through for the last year, but once we start beta testing, they have network issues that bog down all the servers. *Sigh* I guess some things can't be helped. Hopefully this is an isolated incident and isn't portending problems to come. I really hope we don't have to change server providers.

All in all, I'm glad that we're into beta testing, but I'm anxious for people to start using the site and making cool scrapbooks. I'll be really excited when one of our beta testers finishes an album and then sends it to people. Hopefully that will happen soon!

If you build it...

2006-10-08T09:58:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning to find someone had registered for an account at ScrapEase.com. We haven't even sent out our beta tester invitation email yet, but apparently someone out there has been waiting for our site to go live.

Trying out this blogging thing

2006-10-04T09:25:00.000-07:00

Well, we are nearly ready for beta launch, and things are slowly coming together. As my dad says, everything takes longer than you think. But, at long last, we'll finally be able to get some feedback on this project we've worked so hard on. I think it's pretty cool, and I'm hopeful that others will think so too.

Final Push

2006-10-04T09:02:00.000-07:00

After a long, long painful process, we are nearing our beta launch. Scrapease is getting pretty polished at this point, but we are hoping to get some good feedback from eager beta testers.

This is the point where you just have to hold your breath and dive in.

Welcome to our Blog?

2006-10-04T08:41:00.000-07:00

Not sure if anyone is going to be reading this, but I thought it might be fun to start a blog for Kizmeta and ScrapEase.