December 2007

New Features

• Stabilized Desktopsharing/Screencap - Some new fixes to help those functions perform more reliably.
• International Characters - Now natively supported. Previously, a setting had to be changed to activate International Characters, because they would not work in Flash when "text smoothing" was turned on. This is all fixed now.
• Button Plugin - Use the button plugin to create more interactive VyewBooks. Create buttons for your users to click to perform various functions, such as change pages, books or goto URL's.

Bug Fixes

• Timezone Translation - Some users reported problems between scheduling meetings with users in other timezones. This is fixed now.
• Scroll Sync Lockup - Users had reported scrolling pages while the VyewBook was in SYNC mode would lockup the browser. This is fixed.

November 2007

New Features

• Page Naming & New Page Navigator - Allows for better organization and navigation of the VyewBook. To name a page, use the dropdown to navigate to the page you want to name, then type in the textbox at the top of the Page Navigator. You can also rearrange pages by dragging.
• Video Webcam - Each user can broadcast their own video from to the rest of the people in a VyewBook Meeting. This feature is not yet fully tested but should work for most people. To use, click the "webcam" icon in the "Voice & Webcam" pod.
• Push-To-Talk Audio - Now you can talk amongst your workgroup by pressing the "Push To Talk" button. Whoever pushes the button can speak into their computer microphone. Anyone connected to the VyewBook Meeting will be able to hear them through their computer speakers. Any in the meeting (who is a collaborator, moderator, or owner) can also press the "Push To Talk" button at anytime to cut in and speak for themselves.
• Private Chat Groups - Previously, private chat was only between 2 people. Now multiple people can be in private chat groups.
• User Statuses - Users can now set their status such as, "Raised hand" telling the presenter they have a question, "Slow Down" notifying the presenter he/she is going too fast, etc. This is useful during larger webinars.

Bug Fixes

• Email Auto-complete - In the invitations, auto-complete from your Email Addressbook was broken when using the keyboard. This is now fixed.
• Stamp Tool Loading Bug - The Stamp tool sometimes crashed or took a very long time to load certain libraries. This has been resolved.

September 2007

New Features

• Show Mouse Cursor: Users can see each others cursor as its moved, this serves as a laser pointer, replacing the "red arrow" tool. By default all collaborators and up, have this feature turned on. Turn it off by clicking to "Show Cursor" button in the toolbar.
  
• Enhanced Sync Mode: Sync Mode now synchronizes more then page changes. It synchronizes zoom and scroll as well. This ensures that during a presentation, your participants see exactly what you are seeing no matter screen size or resolution.
  
• Rubber Stamp Tool: Users can stamp clipart, math, chemistry and greek symbols. The old "red arrow" pointer has also been placed in the Rubber Stamp Library, in case people still want to use it.
  
• Scheduled Meetings Wizard: This wizard walks you through, step by step, setting up a presentation meeting for a future date. The Meeting Wizard will setup the proper VyewBook settings to hold a meeting.
  
  How is this different then Invitations? Invitations are open to be used anytime by the invitee. Scheduled Meetings are invitations which are only valid during the set meeting time.
  
  
• Meeting Stats: The meeting stats box, (on the left side of "My Home"), shows upcoming scheduled VyewBook Meetings, and currently open VyewBooks.
  
• Download Source Files of images/documents: Collaborators and up (Moderators,Owners) now have the option of downloading the original source document, image or media in a VyewBook. To do so, click on the doc/image once, and a "download" icon will appear in the lower right corner.
  
• Line Tool has Arrowheads : Using the "Arrow" option of the Line tool, you can now draw arrows much easier. To use, select the Line Tool, then click the "Arrow" checkbox above the "Thickness Slider" on the sidebar.
• Make Duplicates of Invited Books: When someone invites you to a book, you are now able to make a duplicate of it (You become the owner of it). (This is only possible if the person who invited you has checked "User can share this book with others" during the invitation)
  

July 2007

New Features

• Object Linking for multi-page documents: When resizing or moving documents on one page, all other pages of that document are resized/moved as well.
• Rotation: Images and Documents can now be rotated by 90 degrees.
  
  
• Past email addresses are remembered and Auto-Completed (for Invitations): Emails of past invitations are easily recalled using the auto-complete feature next time you enter an email address into the Invitation field.
  

Changed Features

• Sync Modes Changed: Previously, after you exited a VyewBook, it would default to either Sync or Un-Sync mode, based on your settings. This confused some users. There are now 3 options. After exiting a VyewBook, the Sync Mode can be left as is, or switched to either Sync or Un-Sync. The default is that the VyewBook is left as is.
• Desktop Sharing Tab is always synced: Previously, clicking on the Desktop Sharing tab only brought all users to Desktop Sharing IF the VyewBook was in Sync Mode. NOW, Desktop Sharing will always be activated for all users regardless of Sync Mode.
• MP3 Player: Option added to allow music to be played even after page has been changed away from the MP3 player.

June 2007 (Vyew 2.5 Release)

• New Home and File Browsers: New tab navigation system lets you more easily explore your VyewBooks and files, and also see a listing of other users' VyewBooks you've been invited to.
• Invitations and Permissions to Individual VyewBooks: You can now invite and set user permissions to individual VyewBooks. This allows you to share specific content with select audiences only.
• Desktop Sharing Tab: We've added a Desktop Sharing tab to allow faster access to this feature and help you keep static presentation content separate from live desktop streams.
• Vyew Color Themes: All Registered Users can now change the color of the Vyew user interface. FREE users can chose from a handful of pre-configured color themes while paid subscribers with the Custom Color Theme add-on can customize the colors of the UI any way they like. Learn more here.
• VyewScripts - Hyperlinks & Pop-up Messages: You can now add a hyperlink to any object (except plug-ins) on a page: Hyperlink to different pages, another VyewBook, or a Web page. You can also add pop-up messages.
• External Publishing via 'Vyewlets': You can now publish any of your VyewBooks and embed them as a 'Vyewlet' inside any Web page - your web site, blog, MySpace, and even email.
• Printing: You can now print any of your VyewBooks.
• Multi-Language Support: All language character sets are supported now by Vyew. For all non-English and non-Latin-based character sets, be sure that "Text Smoothing" is OFF in your "Account Settings" under the Main Menu.
• Text-Smoothing Settings & Language Auto-Detection: English and Latin-based languages which support text smoothing will now auto-default to "Text Smoothing: On". Asian, Cyrillic, Arabic and other non-Latin character sets will default to "Text Smoothing: Off". Text Smoothing can be changed via "Account Settings" under the Main Menu.
• Text Tool Enhancements: Have added word-wrapping to the Text Tool so that text objects auto-size.
• User Page Tracking: See which page each user is on when a VyewBook is in Unsync mode. The page number of each person logged-in to the VyewBook is shown in the Userlist next to their name.
• Undo Enhancements: Added a more useful and consistent "Undo" command during drawing.
• Comments Tool Upgrades - Notification of Changes and Flagging: Visual notification if comments (also called 'StickyNotes) are edited so you know when someone has replied to your comment (comment turns GREEN). Also, a Flagging feature per comment has been added, to help draw users' attention to the comment (comment turns RED).
• And Much More!: Enhanced page navigation, new plug-ins including audio/video players, improved drawing tools, better permission controls, and more.

January 2007 (Vyew 2.1 Release)

• Synch/Unsynch Pages: Lets participants navigate pages at their own pace or in synch all together.
• Undo: Lets you undo the last action performed on the page.
• Highlighter Drawing Tool: Allows you to free-form highlight over any object on a page.
• Screen Capture Enhancements: Now you can take a screen capture from ANY window behind your Vyew session, or your desktop, not just the last visited window.
• Improved Object Controls: Adds object editing controls so when individual objects are selected they can be quickly cut, copied, pasted, layered or deleted.
• TextPad Plug-in A new plug-in that inserts a document editing utility as an object on a page.
• Custom Room ID: Lets users create customized room IDs and matching URLs such as http://www.vyew.com/YOURNAME.
  

   

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October 2006 (Vyew 2.0 Release)

• Multiple VyewBooks per User: Registered Users can now create, name and save multiple VyewBooks. VyewBooks are easy to organize (for example, by project or customer), can be switched on-demand during sessions, and can be set to be "always on" for users to edit over time, anytime.
• Object Layering: Vyew 2.0 features a new layer-based architecture where user-created or uploaded objects (including pages from Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files, images, and whiteboard annotations) are treated as individual object layers. Much like Microsoft PowerPoint, Vyew's object layering gives users the ability to easily scale and move objects, bring them forward or send them backward, as well as copy and paste between pages and VyewBooks.
• Object Filtering: Vyew 2.0 includes two new object filtering options that give users the ability to track and selectively display objects by name or user. For example, VyewBook creators can share a presentation for commenting or editing, and easily go back and sort who added what.
• Desktop Sharing and Screen Capture now for Mac: Vyew 2.0 includes new desktop sharing and screen capture functions, with added availability for Mac users using Safari. Users can take static screenshots or stream live what's showing on their desktop.
• Improved Multi-Page Document Importing: MS Office and PDF documents are now broken up into pages when imported into Vyew, allowing the user to easily import every page of the document as a new page in the VyewBook.
• Enhanced Page Navigator - Lets users quickly navigate and re-order the pages in a VyewBook.
• And More: Vyew 2.0 includes faster file importing and several usability enhancements.
  

   

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