(December 2011) What’s New in Nomadesk 4.8.10

Summary

Release 4.8.10 is a short-cycle release focused primarily on some immediate improvements to the user experience for MyNomadesk and introducing the new Nomadesk brand.

Notable Changes

New Features

• Online Activity Log.  An online activity log that allows users to view all file creates, updates, and deletions within their fileservers.
• Notifications.  This feature provides the ability for users to receive e-mail alerts on files or folders when they are created, updated, or deleted within their shared fileservers.
• Online Trashcan.  This feature saves all files deleted from your shared fileservers to an online trashcan.  After some time has passed, deleted files will be purged from the online trashcan automatically.
• File Details Page.  Now when a file is clicked in MyNomadesk, rather than an auto-download upon click, a file details page is displayed with the option to download the file.

Improvements

• MyNomadesk UX improvements:
  • Improved display of available file and folder actions (no longer need to right click items).
  • Mouse-over tooltips to clarify the purpose of the many icon buttons currently available.
  • Action buttons and header changed to match new Nomadesk branding style.
  • No longer graying out negative-action buttons like cancel.
  • Client improvements:
    • Icons now match new Nomadesk Branding Style.

Notable Bug fixes

• Mac client (on Leopard and Snow Leopard) now properly grabbing focus when creating file links and folder links.
• Mac client performance has been improved.

(June 2011) What’s new in Nomadesk 4.8.6

This is a maintenance release in which we added new features and made important enhancements to both the Nomadesk Client Software and the Nomadesk Online Dashboard.

 New feature:

• myNomadesk Folder Restore:
  In addition to restoring individual files, this new feature allows you to restore a complete folder and all its contents to a previous date (up to 14 days back in time).Access this feature via myNomadesk.com > Revision view > Right-click a folder and select Restore.
  Note: by default, your files will be restored to a folder “Restore” at the top level of your Fileserver

Mobile platforms:

• Since the release of our iPhone and iPad Apps, we have been busy making Nomadesk available on Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
  Downloads: iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry , Windows Phone

Enhancements:

• myNomadesk.com now uses the best available technology from your browser to upload (multiple) files. The file up-loader will use Flash, Silverlight or html file uploads based upon what technology is supported in your browser
• Added Swedish and Japanese language support (Client and myNomadesk)
• Mac OS X 64 bit support
• Possibility to “suspend” a Fileserver in the Mac Client

Other improvements:

• Fixed some issues with the automatic Mac update notification system
• Fixed issues with notifications not correctly displaying on certain systems
• Fixed an issue preventing Nomadesk to automatically launch after installation
• Improvements when resolving conflicts with the synchronization problem solver
• System performance has been improved at end of syncing
• Fixed Fileserver not arriving on Dashboard after accepting invite
• Fixed issues when upgrading from older clients (3.3.2)

(December 2010) What’s new in Nomadesk 4.6.0.2

This is an important update in which we added new features and made important enhancements to both the Nomadesk Client Software and the Nomadesk Online Dashboard.

Streaming of media files

Streaming of media files is supported via our online Nomadesk dashboard (http://myNomadesk.com). This exciting new feature has been introduced by popular demand.

What does this mean?

You no longer have to wait before you can watch or listen to your favorite music or video. No need to download or save, just click and play.

How?

That’s easy, log on to http://myNomadesk.com , browse to your video or music, right-click your file and choose “Preview”. A small media player window now appears and starts playing your media.

What’s supported?

Currently, we support the following audio and video formats: .flv, .mov, .wmv, .mp4, .mp3.

How does it work?

Nomadesk transcodes your music and video files on demand in real time and automatically adjusts video quality for optimal results.

Additional language support

In addition to English, Dutch and French, we now have comprehensive support for other international languages such as German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

Download as Zip

Requested by many “I would like to download a complete folder instead of individual files”.

Now you can download a complete folder from myNomadesk.com as a Zip. Just right-click a folder, choose “Download as Zip” and your Zip file will start downloading.

Fileserver size on import

When importing a fileserver, you might want to check if you have enough disk space available to synchronize all the files.

Suspend a Fileserver

This is a handy feature to quickly hide and show a fileserver from the Dashboard without actually removing the Nomadesk cache.

Other enhancements

• Rename a fileserver – this feature allows you to rename a fileserver while keeping it in the Dashboard. The name change is automatically propagated to Guests that have the Fileservers in their Dashboard.
• Edit File, Folder and WidgetLink properties – allows modifying the properties of shared files, folders or widgets. You can now edit all links through the Link History.
  You might for example want to give collaborators permission to upload files or change the description on the download page. You can also extend the expiry date of a shared link and change the password.
• Forgot password - the improved password procedure will make it easier and more secure to reset your password.
• UI improvements – on myNomadesk to better handle revisions.
• Proxy detection – improvements and support for Mac proxies.
• Stability and performance improvements
• Improvements when purchasing in multiple languages
• Performance improvements when moving or copying files onto a Fileserver
• Performance improvements – a complete Fileserver re-synchronization can be up to 10 times faster
• Sync Now in the fileserver menu will start immediate synchronization of File changes
• Additional improvements:
  - fixed some issues with files reoccurring after deletion
  - usability improvements when working behind a proxy server

What’s next?

This release also includes some important architectural changes allowing us to gradually roll out some neat features in the short term.

One of the important features requested by many is being able to restore deleted files and keeping previous versions whenever there has been a file change.

What do I have to do?

We will be gradually upgrading customers to provide this new functionality. So stay tuned, we will send out a quick notice when we upgrade your account.