1. From the functionality of Information Organizer, which
can organize
multi-media information (photos,
text, audio, video, etc.), the
functionality necessary for organizing
just textual information is
extracted and made into a separate
application called Blog Organizer.
2. The captions for the text frames can be changed using pop-up menu command.
VERSION 1.3.2 (December 18, 2002)
1. Video files can be specified as one of the types of
data for data items.
The specified video files will
be played automatically during slide
shows.
2. While publishing data items to web pages, several advanced
options can
be specified to enhance the appearance
of the web pages. Options can be
specified to launch and control
the slide show.
3. Several new examples are provided in the web site to
illustrate the
multimedia capabilities of the
Information Organizer.
4. Some minor bugs are fixed and some usability enhancements are made.
VERSION 1.3.1 (February 16, 2002)
1. The registration mechanism is changed to consist of
a customer number
and a registration key and this
information has to be purchased.
2. Java Runtime Environment software is included in the
installable
package.
VERSION 1.3 (February 8, 2002)
1. A new feature to publish data to web is added. With this feature
html pages with the same look and feel as
that of the Information
Organizer application can be generated and
all the data can be seen
organized in multiple categories. Data can
be seen in multi-media slide
show also. Visitors to the web pages do not
need any additional
software other than the browser to see the
data and the slide show.
2. A new feature to provide context based instructions is added.
A window
with all the possible operations the user
can do is displayed while the
user is performing any operations in the Information
Organizer.
VERSION 1.2.2 (January 15, 2002)
1. The packaging of the installable executable is changed to
contain only
the Information Organizer code and its documentation.
The Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) software is not included
in the downloaded package.
Instructions for downloading it are provided
during the installation
process.
2. More informational messages are added for registration and
sending mail
from the Information Organizer.
VERSION 1.2.1 (December 18, 2001)
1. The software for Information Organizer is signed with a code
signing
certificate from VeriSign, a well
known certification authority.
2. While sending e-mail to multiple people from Information Organizer,
there is an option to select sending
mail to all the recipients as one
message or send to EACH address
in the list as a separate message. Each
recipient will not see all the
addresses in the list with the second
option.
3. A mail log file is created in the logs directory which has
a log of all the
mail messages sent from the Information
Organizer.
VERSION 1.2.01 (December 6, 2001)
1. The problem in creating new category files is corrected.
2. The problem in editing the information in some pages is corrected.
VERSION 1.2 (December 3, 2001)
1. Information Organizer can be launched from web pages directly using Sun's Java Web Start technology.
2. The time category items can be defined with different granularity
levels - only years, only years and months
or years, months and dates can be created.
3. It is possible to specify background color or background image for time category items.
4. While defining items in the time cabinet, only the desired
time information can be specified.
It can be
- year
- year and month
- year, month and date
- year, month, date and starting time
- year, month, date, starting time and ending time
5. For audio files of formats other than .wav, .au, .aiff, their
duration can be entered while defining the audio
information. This would allow the slide show
to pause appropriately.
6. Performance and memory usage improvements.
VERSION 1.1 (September 10, 2001)
1. Introduced remote sharing, access control and access monitor functionality.
2. Changed the shape of the tool bar buttons.
3. Obfuscated the Java class files.
4. Added support for audio file recording and playback.
5. Performance and memory usage improvements.
VERSION 1.0 (December 12, 2000)
1. Initial release.