Thanks For Your Feedback!

We’ve been gratified by the response to the release of Noah v1.0. In fact, this forum is the direct result of that response. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the emails so we felt it was time.

Many of you have written to tell us how impressed you are with Noah. Thank you! We’ve worked long and very hard to bring you a great product. We’ve also received a number of suggestions for new features, which is great to see.

One of the more common requests is: “When are you going to release a Vista version of Noah?”. Like many others, we’ve been dealing with a number of issues with the Vista OS, which fall in the category of ‘new OS growing pains’. We’re still working through a few more and expect to have the Vista version of Noah available soon.

In addition we’ve been receiving (very polite) reports of bugs and such, which managed to sneak through test. We expect to be making our first maintenance release available very shortly. If you completed the registration email, during the Noah setup, we will be sending you an email to let you know when these new versions become available. If, on the other hand, you didn’t fill out the registration with a real email, or deleted the email before it was sent (and you know who you are), you’ll need to check back here, or the Gen-9 site, for the announcements.

Finally, we hope you continue to support our effort to bring you this and other products. You can help in two ways:

First, keep sending us comments, preferably through this Forum. Your comments are invaluable in helping us determine which new features to add and the order of priority.

Second, help support this effort financially by using the “Quick-Links” featured on the top of the NoahNews home page. Some (but by no means all) of these links are sponsored links. We decided that the least intrusive way to present a sponsor’s link was by using these relatively innocuous buttons, rather than the increasingly annoying, over-the-top, ads we are all becoming familiar with . Plus, we thought that by carefully selecting the most popular sites (both ad-linked and not) we would make the Quick-Links a valuable feature to our users by providing them one place to go for an easy and convenient way to access some of their favorite sites.

Speaking, of over-the-top ads, you may find that some of the News-Links and the RSS news feeds in the main body of the NoahNews page (none of which are our sponsors) are accompanied by some of these rather annoying ads. We provide the News-Links solely for our user’s convenience. We want you to know that these ads have nothing to do with us. They are the ads that accompany the content that we subscribe to. We’ve tried hard to select those sites that have the least annoying stuff and, when we have a choice between multiple sites with the same or similar content, we choose the one with the least. We intend to continue to practice this editorial philosophy going forward by periodically changing content sources as the need arises.

Well, that’s all for now. On behalf of everyone on the Gen-9 Team, thank you for using Noah and we hope that this is the start of a long and happy relationship!