SlideSix Uploader AIR App Now Available
I'm happy to announce the release of the SlideSix Uploader AIR application.
I'm happy to announce the release of the SlideSix Uploader AIR application.
Thanks to some quiet time around the house yesterday I finally got a chance to pay some attention to the look and feel of the home page at SlideSix. Rather then the super boring old home page users will now land at a page that looks like this:
Last night I added the ability to upload presentations in PDF format to SlideSix.com. It was a terribly simple thing to add given how easy PDF manipulation is with CF 8, and something I should have done a while ago.
With PDF support SlideSix now supports the following formats:
So this morning my wife and I are getting ready for work, the usual routine of running around getting the kids ready, making coffee and whatnot and she casually states to me "I think I'm done with Internet Explorer. It's so slow and it crashes all the time." I had to simply stop what I was doing and embrace her in a loving hug. OK, so I didn't really do that, but I have to say I'm extremely proud of her for finally making the decision to use Firefox. She'd be the first to admit she is not terribly computer literate, but even she has finally realized that IE is the 'devil's browser' and is ready to make the switch.
Last night I pushed a small change to SlideSix.com. This change was the simple addition of yet more jQuery in the form of the UI Uploader. I wanted a way to provide some feedback when uploading files (via a progress bar) and just improve the presentation upload experience a bit. Here is a screenshot of the new upload utility: