Hi folks.
Many of you, especially personal historians, have asked why we haven’t transitioned to the new iMemoryBook when it is so much better than the old one. I had announced at the APH 2006 that we’d make the transition by January 1st. I apologize for misleading the group we told. Although in our tests, it has worked fine, we’ve encountered things on certain installations of IE 7 that we didn’t anticipate. We also faced some heavy backend work to handle all the traffic. The reason we haven’t transitioned yet is because users on the new system have told us that it isn’t ready (Thank you for all your feedback!). We’ll transition from BETA as soon as you tell us that beta.imemorybook.com is working better for you than www.imemorybook.com.

So, use the “Report a Bug” at the bottom of the screen whenever you encounter something you’d like to see done better and we’ll get there much faster. Also, feel free to comment here when you think we’re ready.

Thank you all!

The iMemoryBook Team

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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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As you may know already, the next version of iMemoryBook is in very active development. The public beta version is released an undergoing heavy scrutiny from our wonderful users. We have decided that there will be a new release every Thursday. These weekly releases will have only bug fixes until we feel the product is very solid. At that point we will begin adding many of the new features people are asking for.

Today was the first of the releases mentioned above. A great number of fixes went out. Below is a quick CHANGELOG:

• Center and right justify now typesets correctly.
• The forgotten color, sepia, grayscale buttons were put on the image editor.
• Images are only allowed to zoom to reasonable sizes. They used to lie about their size. They have been taught to tell the truth.
• As you sign in/out you are redirected back to where you were or should be.
• You can remove and restore trashed sections, pages, and photos.
• Added a huge number of functional and integration test to make sure these things stay fixed.
• Lots of broken links and poorly worded texts where corrected.

As was mentioned in a previous post, there is now a ‘report a bug’ feature available. This has been very helpful. Thank you to everyone who has submitted bug reports already. Please keep up the good work.

paul

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iMemoryBook 2.0 is a very complicated system. We know there are bugs in the system. Today you will notice “Report a bug” in the top right hand of your screen. If you run into bugs please report them to us so that we can fix them as promptly as possible. We would also love your suggestions on how to make iMemoryBook work better for you.

Not sure how to describe the bug you just found? Here is an example of how to report so that the Geek Squad and fix the problem faster.

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