April 10, 2009

Feedback Matters: New Features in ConnectNow

Posted by Julien Levadoux at 3:44 PM

NEW FEATURES IN CONNECTNOW

We receive a lot of good suggestions for new features from our users on a daily basis through our ideas web site & our forum, and it's always very exciting when we get a chance to implement one of those ideas.

This week, we released a new version of ConnectNow and we were able to make the following two new features available to all of you:

Application / Window Screen Sharing
Requests for this feature from our users: Link to the idea on our ideas site & Link 1, Link2, Link3, Link4 on our forum.

You can now choose to share a particular window or application instead of sharing your whole desktop when using the screen sharing feature.

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This is very useful if you want to keep your e-mail and/or messenger application opened for example while sharing your screen but you are worried about notifications/messages being shown to everyone.


Sign Out
Requests for this feature from our users: this idea was submitted via e-mail a few times and on our forum.

You can now sign out when leaving your meeting room.

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This option comes in handy if you have more than one ConnectNow account (1 professional and 1 personal for example) or if you are using a public computer (at the library for example) and want to make sure that your meeting will not be accessed by the next person using that computer.


MORE IMPROVEMENTS

Screen sharing quality

We improved the screen sharing performance in February by lowering the bandwidth consumption needed for screen sharing, we then realized that quality was not optimum anymore so this time around we worked on improving the quality without losing any of the performance improvements made 2 months ago. We hope that most of our users will see a difference and benefit from those improvements.

Documents containing text should be much easier to read now for meeting viewers.


Bug Fixes

We've also fixed about 50 bugs in all areas for this release.


FINALLY

Please continue to share your feedback with us via our ideas web site & our forum and we'll do our best to address your needs.

More new exciting features on the way; stay tuned.

Cheers,
Julien (QE) and the ConnectNow Team

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Comments

April 11, 2009
3:21 AM

Mike writes:

Thanks for the info folks - gives users an insight and greater confidence in the product and dev path

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