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.

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.

fruux is meant to simplify your digital life. When syncing different devices and services you might run into troubles called sync conflicts.

Just think about the following scenario:

1. you modified one of your contacts phonenumbers on the go via the (not yet demoed) fruux webapplication
2. then you modified the very same contacts phonenumber on your laptop (lets assume you had no internet access while doing this)

The outcome of this example is a sync conflict. The fruuxServer and your local system now contain different phonenumbers for the same contact. As the system has no idea which phonenumber is the correct one, it just asks you.

Reviewing the sync conflict gives you a nice dialogue (left side shows your local addressbook, right side shows the data from the fruuxServer). Now it’s really easy to choose the correct contact, by just clicking on the correct card.

After choosing the correct card you just restart the sync via the “Sync Now” button and immediately both your local system and the fruuxServer are in sync again.