fruux blog

We are a bit late, with our promised client update.
Hopefully the following screenshots help bridging the gap until the actual release (it’s imminent! No, not that Duke Nukem Forever kind of imminent!).

This is our new main screen:

The following image shows the new account sheet. The next version wont require any email-begging in order to join our beta. Just download the fruux client, create your account, click the email verification link and you are ready to go sync.

If you are interested in speeding up development, feel free to donate and suggest your top priority feature!
There are still some free slots on our supporters page.

With the help of your nice feedback, we worked on a bugfix release during the last days.

Changelog:

• (FIX) No more iSync error messages at the console, when syncing cell phones
• (FIX) No more birthday conflicts, when using the reset function
• (FEATURE) Added german localization

If you are are current fruux betatester, you’ll get an email including the download location of the updated client. If you are interested in betatesting fruux, follow these steps.

Just in case there is an updated version of your new favorite application, here are the necessary steps.

1)

• Doubleclick the new fruux Preference Pane

2)

• Click “Replace”

3)

• Click “Synchronize Now” in the fruux Preference Pane
• Click “Allow” in order to grant the updated fruux application to the account information you previously stored in your keychain (This step is very important! Since fruux is not “codesigned” yet, you have to manually grant the keychain access after an update).

Several lion-hearted people out there started testing fruux during the last week. Taking the system stats into account it even looks like there are some everyday/productive users besides the team.

It’s a great pleasure that some of you already adopted fruux into your everyday life!

Now we’d like YOU to join us testing fruux!
Applying is quite simple, just get in touch with us and tell us a bit about you and your motivation to test fruux. We’ll happily provide you with the fruux application and a demo account.

While we are readying the system for a broader betatest our pixelguru Martin spent some time on the icon of our client application. The journey started of course with our logo.

Adding some gloss and depth… adding some details and glow… adding more depth and a typical system preferences icon shadow… well yes - it’s not ready yet, but sufficent for our upcoming beta.

The following screenshots show the current look and feel of our application.

Our icon still needs some optimization for different resolutions and sizes.