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August 20th, 2008 - Released Mentations 0.98: |
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Made miscellaneous error handling
and connectivity notification
tweaks. |
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March 20th, 2008 - Released Mentations 0.97: |
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Added the function where Mentations
regularly checks your RSS/Atom feeds
to determine if they are still valid
and if they’re not, it flags them as
such;
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Corrected the RSS/Atom Feed Wizard
such that it will now allow you to
correct a faulty/obsolete feed. |
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January
19th, 2008 - Released Mentations 0.96: |
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Fixed additional “jerky” mouse
movement issues;
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Added more customization
capabilities when creating a new
Unmanaged Interface; |
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Fixed issue where Mentations would
lock up when coming out of computer
hibernation; |
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Improved the RSS/Atom feed wizard
such that it will detect the
presence of an XML feed link if a
regular web page/blog page is
provided instead; |
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Fixed issue where modifying a
constituent interest or news item
would cause its status not to update
properly when hovering over it. |
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October
27th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.95: |
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Fixed “jerky” mouse movement
(hesitation) when hovering over
constituent items;
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Fixed issue where password wasn’t
being masked; |
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Performed memory optimization. |
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October
23rd, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.94: |
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Improved functionality of the
Thoughts screen and fixed several
related issues;
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Tied any Thoughts added to Public
Topics within the Mentations desktop
client to the new
Thoughts page on the website. |
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October 8th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.93: |
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Added code to check network
availability to minimize/prevent any
connectivity related errors from
occurring;
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Integrated the Mentations Flash tour
– it can be accessed by
right-clicking on the background and
selecting Help – Tour;
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By popular request, added code to
stop movement of items (other than
alerts) when you are interacting
with the application. It should be
noted that you can also design an
entire Mentations interface without
incorporating movement at all;
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Added the retrieving percent
complete to the category
“[Retrieving]” labels to give better
feedback on progress;
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Started adding to the help system
(finally J)
and included a help link (question
mark icon) on the login screen and
main window of the app.
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August 29th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.92: |
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Fixed a problem with constituent statuses not always updating after new data was received;
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Made turning off the Read Alerts option more responsive;
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Fixed minor issue where alert windows would sometimes not be entirely shown if you hovered over one while it was at the bottom of the screen;
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Made verbiage of alert messages more concise;
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MS Windows Vista Compatibility!
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August 21st, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.91: |
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Fixed a problem with the Thoughts functionality where users on non-Tablet PCs experienced errors while trying to view the associated window. Users with this issue will need to fully uninstall and then reinstall Mentations.
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August 14th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.90: |
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Further enhanced the functionality of the alert message windows such that they show what has changed versus just stating that a change had occurred;
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Also enhanced alert windows such that they will expand when you hover over them if there is more text than can be shown in the regular-sized windows.
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August 7th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.89: |
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Changed functionality of alert message windows such that they only show for constituent members that you have weighted to be greater than 0%;
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Added the “Read Alerts” option that instructs Mentations to read the information contained within alert message windows as they are shown.
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August 4th, 2007 - Released Mentations 0.88: |
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Updated Mentations to use .NET Framework 2.0;
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Fixed issue where alert message windows would steal focus from the application you were currently working in.
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March 9th,
2007 - Released Mentations 0.87: |
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Changed
company logo to reflect the company's
pending name change from Grimaldi Productions
Inc. to Mentations, Inc.; |
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Changed
email addresses to also reflect company
name change – gpinc.biz domain
updated to Mentations.com; |
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Fixed
issue where the New Interface Wizard
would not accept interface names containing
apostrophes. |
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February
20th, 2007 - Released the capability
to have a trimmed-down display running
on your cell phone which displays your
Mentations feeds updated as of the last
time you ran the desktop client. |
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February
20th, 2007 - Released Mentations
0.86: |
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Added
the “ Mentations Maximize Mini-browser”
voice command to provide an easy way
to maximize the mini-browser window
area; |
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Added
the Mentations
Info Stream screen (a.k.a. “River
of News” in early adopter circles)
to provide a quick means to see what/when
information has been getting updated
within Mentations. You can double-click
on any of the items shown to drill down
to the actual constituent item; |
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Added
the ability to see a related user’s
(Friends, Family, or Significant Others)
current Mentations interface via the
Mentations Relationship screen –
just click on the Mentations Mini button; |
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Added
the ability to create ‘thoughts’
which are ink-enabled journal/note entries
which can optionally be shared with
individuals within your network of relationships; |
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Added
the ability to see a related user’s
shared thoughts via the Mentations Relationship
screen – just click on the Shared
Thoughts button; |
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Added
the ability to generate a Mentations
Mobile token for use with your internet-enabled
cell phone/mobile device by right-clicking
on the background and selecting Tokens
Mentations Mobile. |
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February
15th, 2007 - Launched the
Mentations Users
area of the site which allows you to
explore the Mentations social network
as well as drill into a given user's
profile and optionally invite them to
join your network of relationships. |
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January
24th, 2007 - Released Mentations
0.85: |
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Added
alternative to the “Stop Reading”
voice command where the user can double-click
the Mentations background which will
instruct Mentations to stop reading; |
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Fixed
problem where right-clicking on a constituent
item wasn’t showing the context
menu properly; |
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Made
updating the status of constituent items
more responsive to user input. |
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January
23rd, 2007 - Released Mentations
0.84: |
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Modified
the “Read” series of voice
commands such that when you request
to hear a given constituent’s
data items read, the status of this
constituent will get updated just like
when using a “View” voice
command; |
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Added
logic to handle the condition when constituent
weighting percentages for a given category
do not add up to 100%. |
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January
22nd, 2007 -Launched the Mentations
Gallery which showcases all of
the public themes that have been created
as well as the usage statistics for
them. |
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January
16th, 2007 - Released Mentations
0.83: |
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Increased
UMPC usability by repositioning cursor
on top of tooltip after clicking on
a constituent item and also added the
ability to hide the tooltip by clicking
on the related category balloon window; |
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Tweaked
screensaver image once more. |
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January
4th, 2007 - Released Mentations
0.82: |
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Increased
cryptographic security of data file
names; |
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Modified
screensaver image; |
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Added
ability to create tokens for Typepad/Widgetbox; |
|
Changed
time references to be relative to the
current time versus EST values. |
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December
11th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.81: |
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Corrected
the “specified procedure could
not be found” error when running
Mentations as your screensaver. |
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December
5th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.80: |
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Added
code to make tokens generated more secure
(you’ll need to generate a new
token if you were using an older version); |
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Added
support for international
users (FINALLY!); |
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Added
the ability to securely save your login
and password locally (see checkbox on
login screen) so that you don’t
have to explicitly log in each time
you use Mentations; |
|
Added
the ability to create ‘thoughts’
which are ink-enabled journal/note entries
which can optionally be shared with
individuals within your network of relationships; |
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Enhanced
the Mentations Screensaver, adding an
options screen and the ability to start
Mentations if it is not already running; |
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Fixed
issue where a user photo was not able
to be successfully added to a user’s
profile using the Preferences Wizard. |
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November
19th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.79: |
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Modified
login screen such that new users see
a flashing registration button to highlight
the fact that this is the necessary
course of action in order to begin using
Mentations; |
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Added
the “Tokens” context menu
item to generate HTML script for integrating
your Mentations desktop info with
Mentations Mini. This HTML script
currently comes in 3 flavors –
one for creating a stand-alone Mentations
Mini widget/gadget for your own website/blog,
one for utilization with the Google
Mentations Mini Gadget, and another
for use in your email footer to direct
users to your Mentations Mini content. |
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November
8th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.78: |
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Fixed
issue related to tooltips not being
properly displayed for some constituent
items. |
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November
7th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.77: |
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Fixed
an issue involving the “New”-type
voice commands where they were not being
properly recognized. |
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November
2nd, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.76: |
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Fixed
bug introduced in last release (0.75)
related to Mentations not correctly
recognizing a user’s credentials
when requesting data from the Mentations
web service. |
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November
1st, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.75: |
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Fixed
issue with how IP addresses are determined; |
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Added
error-handling related to lat/long determination. |
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October
31st, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.74: |
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Optimized
memory usage somewhat; |
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Added
functionality to differentiate logins
from the desktop versus web editions
of Mentations; |
|
Added
functionality to track the base interface
used in the creation of an unmanaged
interface; |
|
Added
ability to choose whether users can
create unmanaged interfaces from a given
base interface; |
|
Added
the ability to provide an optional web
site link with your user profile so
that people using one of your public
interfaces can find out more about you. |
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October
25th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.73: |
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Fixed
issue where the Mentations Relationships
screen was not showing the current status
for Friends, Family, or Significant
Others; |
|
Fixed
issue where Mentations didn’t
know how to handle empty data cache
files; |
|
Enhanced
functionality to stagger the launching
of feed gathering for categories so
that CPU demand is not so high when
starting Mentations. |
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October
16th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.72: |
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Fixed
issue with links not correctly being
flagged as visited in subsequent Mentations’
sessions; |
|
Changed
location where temporary data files
are written. |
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October
13th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.71: |
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Fixed
minor issue with the constituent item
click behavior; |
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Added
error-handling in case of contention
issues accessing data files. |
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October
12th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.70: |
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Decoupled
theme-specific files from the Mentations
program allowing for smaller executable
sizes. Themes files are now downloaded
on-demand as needed; |
|
Added
logic to eliminate “false positives”
related to flagging individual News
items, Interests, and Offers as being
new; |
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Added
gradient fills to the form backgrounds; |
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Added
new voice subcommand where you can now
append “New” to any Constituent-specific
“Read” or “View”
command. For example, instead of saying,
“ Mentations Read News Google Top
Stories” and having to listen
to ones you’ve already viewed,
you can say, “ Mentations Read
News Google Top Stories New” and
Mentations will only read the new items
(or will say “N/A” if there
aren’t any); |
|
Added
the Mentations
Helm which
allows you to create your own “unmanaged”
interfaces from scratch or to modify
those unmanaged interfaces created using
the Unmanaged Interface Wizard (see
below); |
|
Added
the Unmanaged
Interface Wizard which allows
you to get a jump-start on building
an unmanaged interface by basing it
off of one of the existing public interface
templates; |
|
Added
the Web Service
(WS) Request Builder (accessible
from the Helm) which allows you to easily
build out a Data Input object for the
Mentations (or other) web service; |
|
Added
the Calculation
Scripter (accessible from the
Helm) which allows you to build and
test VB.NET scripts based on the results
of Data Inputs; |
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Added
a local data cache to improve Mentations’
performance and to decrease memory usage. |
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September
26th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.69: |
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Corrected
issue where sometimes the “Read
Mini-browser” voice command won’t
find any content to read even though
some exists; |
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Added
a new voice command, “Skip Lines
[1-10]”, which instructs Mentations
to skip reading the next 1-10 lines
of content in the mini-browser; |
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Enhanced
the Mentations screensaver to be able
to detect when Mentations is running
in the System Tray versus the Taskbar
and activate it; |
|
Added
error handling to address condition
where no active interfaces are found; |
|
Added
and modified server-side routines to
accommodate upcoming Unmanaged Interface
functionality; |
|
Added
generic images and sounds to support
building Unmanaged Interfaces from scratch. |
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September
20th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.68: |
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Added
capability to show Mentations in the
computer’s System Tray versus
the Taskbar; |
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Corrected
issue where selecting multiple interests
to delete was problematic; |
|
Corrected
issue where using the “Drill”
voice command to drill into a currently
read aloud item fails; |
|
Added
a new voice command, “Read Mini-browser”,
which instructs Mentations to read the
contents of the mini-browser; |
|
Added
and modified server-side routines to
accommodate upcoming Unmanaged Interface
functionality. |
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September
5th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.67: |
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Released
the new Football
theme; |
|
Modified
server-side routines to accommodate
upcoming Unmanaged Interface functionality. |
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September
3rd, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.66: |
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|
Corrected
some issues introduced in last version; |
|
Added
more error handling. |
|
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August
21st, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.65: |
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Significantly
decreased Mentations load time; |
|
Significantly
decreased Mentations executable size; |
|
Added
dynamic theme download capability for
retrieval of new themes on an as-needed
basis; |
|
Added
more error handling. |
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July
3rd, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.64: |
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Fixed
problem where the status shown in the
title bar (caption) sometimes referred
to the current theme by the wrong name; |
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Made
other small, miscellaneous tweaks to
the code. |
|
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May
12th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.63: |
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Added
more error handling in the speech engine
initialization routine to catch some
previously unhandled errors. |
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April
20th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.62: |
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Added
functionality to limit instantiating
category constituent web services if
CPU usage or thread count is too high; |
|
Changed
behavior to store clicked/viewed links
every 10 minutes (interval subject to
change) versus just doing so when Mentations
is exiting; |
|
Added
location-based
functionality including the following: |
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Ability
to tie into live GPS readings from a
connected device (right-click on the
background, hover over Options, and
then click the “Enable GPS”
option); |
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Ability
to see any nearby (i.e., within 10 miles)
locations related to your interests
based on your current location (either
your zip code or live GPS readings if
available and enabled); |
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Ability
to see current distance and directions
(via the Relationships screen) to individuals
defined within your relationships who
have designated you as a Friend, Family,
or Significant Other; |
|
Ability
to see all nearby locations of interest
on one screen by right-clicking on the
background and selecting “Vicinity
Map”; |
|
Variable
frequency updating of the Vicinity Map
with your location based on your current
speed if GPS is available and enabled; |
|
Added
a voice command to launch the Vicinity
Map which is “ Mentations View
Map”. |
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March
28th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.61: |
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Added
the functionality to locate nearby places
of interest (via Google Local) based
on a user’s current interests
and their current location (based initially
on zip code); |
|
Added
labels to items shown for Interests
to distinguish one type from another.
Applicable types include “Website”,
“Blog”, “Bookmark”,
“News”, and “Nearby
Location”. |
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March
20th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.60: |
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Corrected
problem where links shown within the
Release Notes were not clickable; |
|
Changed
the “ Mentations Exit” voice
command to “ Mentations Close Program”
to reduce the number of times it is
accidentally triggered; |
|
Added
the “ Mentations Go Back”
and “ Mentations Go Forward”
voice commands to help with mini-browser
navigation; |
|
Added
more error handling related to the speech
engine initialization; |
|
Fixed
issue where the News constituent list
would ‘flicker’ while it
updated its status, especially for a
large number of data feeds; |
|
Added
support for OPML
import and export (finally).
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March
14th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.59: |
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Added
voice activation
and speech
capabilities. This functionality requires
that the Microsoft Speech API is installed
in order to use it. See the help on
Voice
Activation & Speech
for more information; |
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Added
the following constituents to the Weather
category for all managed interfaces: |
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NWS
Humidity; |
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Weather.com
Sunrise; |
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Weather.com
Sunset; |
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Weather.com
UV Index. |
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February
28th, 2006 - Released Mentations
"Lite" 0.1: |
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We
now have a rudimentary (i.e., alpha)
web
interface
for Mentations up and running, Mentations
"Lite", at https://www.mentations.com/Mentationsweb.
So far it lets you access your current
desktop interface's info from any location
regardless of whether or not the desktop
client is installed; however, the information
you see is static as of the last time
you used the desktop client. Never fear
though, we're working on making it dynamic! |
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February
6th, 2006 - Released Mentations
0.58: |
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