The geek squad has a load of bug fixes and new features to report today.  In addition, we’ve been working to catch up on the high demand that Christmas deadlines have brought about.  We’re happy to report that some of the major slowdowns we were experiencing earlier are fixed—although we are still working on an even better solution to the whole speed issue that we’ll report on later.

Without any further ado, the fixes and features:

• Global Spell Check! If you are an editor of a book, visit the contributions tab and you’ll find a “Global Spell Check” option at the bottom of the list of chapters in your book. Click to go to the new spell check page—you can check your whole book for typos from there.
• Multi-Photo Uploader! We’ve used the up-and-coming SWFUpload package. Sue Hessell has been begging for this for a long time . Ben thinks this is the best one he’s every used.
• The publish / checkout bug is fixed that was preventing people from getting their hands on one (or more) hardbound copies of their book.
• There was an issue with the tabs in Internet Explorer where the selected tab would obscure the sub-tabs.  This is now fixed.
• Deleting other peoples’ books is now disabled. (Thanks go to all of you who were tempted to delete someone else’s book and didn’t )
• There is now a flashy new tutorial available in the book editor page.  Try it out!  It will guide you through the basics of how the editor works.
• The quality of some uploaded photos has been improved. (But don’t worry, you don’t have to re-upload any photos, we’ve kept your originals intact and only the best quality photos will be used in the final product).
• The Invitation System had some updates: as the chief editor, you can change the deadline using the menu on the left; you can change who the book is about; and when the time comes that you need to stop accepting contributions, you can turn that off.

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