Archive for October, 2008

fruux + Box.net (or) Dropbox = ♥ ?

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Bookmarks, Contacts, Tasks, Calendars and Events in sync with fruux, but still looking for a solution for your files? Box.net and Dropbox might be worth a look. If you are looking for an iDisk replacement, you might see their services as a welcome addition to fruux.

(fruux is not affiliated with Box.net or Dropbox)

Apple Wishlist

Monday, October 20th, 2008
  • Rechargeable wireless Mighty Mouse with a Scroll Ball that does not suck!!!
  • Mail.app with builtin GPG and S/MIME support (also on iPhone)
  • Ability to forward text messages on iPhone
  • Different signatures for each mail account on iPhone
  • Installer and/or Cydia in AppStore :-)

Your wishes?

 

UPDATE:
Looks like someone had the same idea:
TechCrunch: Please Fix The iPhone: A To-Do List for Steve Jobs

press roundup, bugs and howto support fruux

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

During the last days our project got a lot of attention around the globe. We got reams of emails including lots of feature requests, bug reports and dozens of motivating comments (we used some of them as user comments on our main site).

Here is just a short excerpt of sites featuring fruux:

We even found a podcast, mentioning fruux (@ 21:20), besides that many people twittered about fruux and we even heard unrelated people talking about fruux in the streets!

Of course we especially liked the content that was produced by our own users, like:

Thank you!

We are still working hard on our next bugfix release and hope to implement many of your feature requests very soon.

If you like our work and want to support the project, please file your bugs (if we don’t know about them, we can’t fix them)! Are there any fruux screencasts out there?

If you want to help even more, have a look at our -support us- site.

whats next?

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

You might have noticed our roadmap, so you know that we have high aims with fruux – but we need your help to make it happen. Especially we’d like to know which features you want to see in our next version! Please add your comments below! Feature requests like “Please add Safari bookmark syncing” might be implemented earlier, than “Please add a Windows client and FileSyncing”. :-)

We recently added a french localization to our software, which was donated by our user linathael over at HardMac.com/MacBidouille.com, then screwed up by our french inability and luckily corrected with the help of several comments from other french fruux users (Thank you, Emmanuel, Pierre, Virginie, Jean)! If you’d like to see fruux localized in your language and want to donate your free time, please let us know. We’ll provide you with the localizable strings.

fruux v0.7.1 – iCal bugfixes

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

fruux Preference Pane IconToday we released fruux v0.7.1, besides several iCal syncing related bugfixes this version includes a french localization, which was generously donated from linathael over at HardMac.com/MacBidouille.com (Thank you, linathael!).

We are also working hard on our main site at fruux.com. It’s still work in progress, but you’ll find our changelog and also our roadmap there.

Please always remember, that fruux is still in beta.
Backup your data:

  • Addressbook: File -> Export -> Addressbook Archive
  • iCal: File -> Backup iCal…

If you are affected by any bugs, please let us know (support @ fruux . com). We are pretty responsive and will do our best to get any bugs you might experience resolved as fast as possible.

Can’t wait for the new version? Here are the update instructions:

  • Start “System Preferences”
  • Start “fruux”
  • Click “Synchronize Now”
  • If you don’t already have v0.7.1 installed, the “New version availiable” message will appear
  • After a few seconds you’ll be asked if you want to replace the current version. Click “Replace”
  • Wait a few seconds, until the new version is installed
  • Click “Synchronize Now”
  • If the System asks you for permission to use the fruux Keychain item, click “Allow”