Archive for 2009

Portable and standard edition merged

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

It had to happen of course. PeerAware now simply detects if a user has admin priveleges. If he does then the normal edition will be installed. Otherwise PeerAware will run in portable mode.

PeerAware is shared knowledge management software for use in the enterprise. Teams use it for group chat, for sharing documents and for the shared whiteboard.

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1.05 is out! And now it is fast!

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Today I released PeerAware 1.05. I just found that now is about time. I have been making tons of improvements, and today I found a huge bug! For a long time I have been getting reports from potential customers that PeerAware is slow. I never quite understood why they would think so, but now I know. If browsing shared folders with Asian letters it was not only slow. It just did not work, and would stay idle for ages! How I managed to let that bug slip past me I don’t know. All fixed and much much faster now of course.

As usual a lot of work has gone into improving the whiteboard. A great new functionalty is the full screen support. Just press F11 and you get much more screen real-estate for drawing.

Apart from that a lot of work is going into the web site. It is time to focus more on helping people use PeerAware efficiently, and part of that means better introductions to the program. A new video will be online soon to highlight the most important functionality, and a bunch of new web-pages are scheduled as well.

Enjoy the new release, and as usual you can download it here.

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Group chat history, connectors in the whiteboard and more.

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Hi all, last nights release gave some serious improvements:

  • Most important, new tools are now available in the whiteboard for connecting elements on the whiteboard. Now it is possible to draw real flow-charts, network diagrams and more, and connect the different items. A few sample drawings taken from the whiteboard are available here.

network diagram created with PeerAware

  • The whiteboard can now remember your settings between drawing different items. Sof If you choose yellow fill and orange borders 5 pixels thick, then it will use that the next time you draw a shape. Speeds things up nicely.
  • Chat history is available so that you can see what people have talked about before you joined.
  • A crash that haunted a few customers is fixed. Something with their firewall system resulted in a crash and instant death of PeerAware. All fixed and works great now though!

Go and download the latest version and try it out!

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