FileGears News and Updates

Make money with us!

Mon, 21 Sept 2009 05:45:40 GMT

We offer to website owners and bloggers an opportunity to earn money by placing links and banners leading to FileGears website. Help us getting new customers and get rewarded! From each sale generated by visitors coming from your site, you can earn up to 20% of the product price. We have an easy-to-use tool, that you can access, for tracking sales and your earnings. You don't even need to install any software on your website - only add a little JavaScript snippet for tracking visitors.

In the nearest future we are planning to add marketing tools for affiliates, allowing you to offer lower prices for FileGears to your visitors, by generating coupon codes in our affiliate tracking tool.

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More email configuration options added

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:28:13 GMT

We just added new email configuration settings allowing you to specify a custom SMTP port number and enable SSL SMTP connection mode. This, in particular, allows FileGears to be configured to use GMail account for sending email messages.

To use Gmail with FileGears, the “Enable POP for all mail” option should be enabled in the GMail account settings. The procedure of configuring the GMail account for POP access is described in GMail documentation.

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Why FileGears Is Good For Your Customers?

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:43:14 GMT

FileGears is a perfect solution for file collaboration in both team environment and customer relations. What makes FileGears a good tool when it comes to file collaboration with clients?

Imagine that you are a logo design studio and your customer, say John Smith, orders a logo for his online book store. Your team works on the logo and finally the first mockup is ready to be shown to John. You want John to review the mockup and provide his feedback. Normally, you would send him an email message with attached logo and maintain all future communications related to the file through email messages. But using email communication is not such a good idea for file collaboration. The conversation about the file is spread over different email messages. It makes it difficult to find previous revisions of a file. Email communication is difficult to brand. And, generally speaking, it is more professional to use specialized software to solve specific tasks.

FileGears offers a productive approach to file collaboration. Returning to the example with John's book store logo. You create a folder in FileGears, a user account for John and grant a read-only permission to John in the folder. After that, you upload the logo into the folder and invite John to log in into the system. All further collaboration is carried out through FileGears.

Your team members and John can post comments to a file. You can upload new revisions and John can visually track changes between revisions. The process continues until John is satisfied with the final revision.

All comments and file revisions are displayed in FileGears on a single page. Instead of reading impersonal email messages, your customers work with a system which is a part of your creative process. Your FileGears copy is 100% rebrandable to match your company identity. You can upload your company logo and specify custom application footer and header, thus removing all references to FileGears or AMDGear Software. FileGears is making your customers feel that the whole process is consistent and coherent, and thus making them happy and satisfied.

* Icons by http://dryicons.com

Posted in: Business

FileGears Is Tested In SSL Environment

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:07:40 GMT

We just finished testing FileGears in SSL environment. We did not expect any problems with SSL, the only one application component causing our concerns was the Flash-based file uploader. But the test demonstrated that FileGears works without problems with any valid SSL certificate.

The browsers we tested FileGears in:

FireFox 3.0
FireFox 3.5
Safari 4.0
Opera 9.64
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7

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FileGears Is 100% Rebrandable Now

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:49:50 GMT

Some customers asked us about a possibility to make FileGears rebrandable. And we did it. The application update published today makes FileGears a 100% rebrandable product. You can remove all references to FileGears or AMDGear Software from the application headers, footers, login form and email notifications. Even a company logo you upload on the Settings page is displayed on the login page.

Before rebranding:

After rebranding *

The rebranding feature will enable you to provide a consistent workspace for file collaboration with your customers.

* Icons by http://dryicons.com

Posted in: Updates

Trash Can Feature Released

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:46:37 GMT

In order to make your working process more protected and safe, we just released the Trash Can feature. Files now are not deleted permanently when you click the Delete link in the control panel, but moved to the Trash Can and can be restored, if they are needed. You can delete files permanently in one click, if needed, by holding ALT key when you click the Delete link.

Drag and Drop is supported, as well. You can drag files to the Trash folder and drag files back from the Trash folder into any folder.

Files in the Trash Can keep connection to the parent folders and follow the same permissions policy as they have in the usual folders. Thus, if you have no permissions to work with some folder, you will not see files deleted from this folder in the Trash Can.

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Image Gallery View Mode Released

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:22:01 GMT

Especially for those customers who use FileGears to store and share images, we just released Image Gallery view mode. You can enable this view mode as any other – in the folder View Settings popup window.

Image Gallery view mode works both in FileGears back-end interface and in web-published folders, so your guests can use it, as well. The only limitation – Image Gallery mode does not work for Internet Explorer 6. Web guests who use this browser version will not be able to see this option in the folder view settings.

Have fun!

Posted in: Updates

Email and RSS Notifications

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:56:48 GMT

Today we released a new feature - File Notifications. It allows you to stay notified about new, updated and deleted files and file comments. There are two ways to receive notifications from FileGears – by email or via RSS feed.

As the amount of folders in FileGears is virtually limitless, you may prefer not to get notifications about each file. We made the notifications configurable on the user account level, folder level and file level.

With FileGears File Notifications you can:

receive notifications about each file
receive notifications only from specific folders
receive notifications from all folders excluding specific folders
receive notifications only about specific files
receive notifications about all files excluding specific

FileGears is smart enough to send you only one email message when multiple files are changed. If somebody upload 100 files, FileGears will send you a single email and enumerate all 100 files in it, instead of sending you 100 notifications.

Please read the documentation for more details about the Notifications feature.

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1000 Folders and 1 000 000 Files

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:42:42 GMT

Today we conducted a test of FileGears performance in respect of large quantities of folders, files and users and took some measures improving the database efficiency. For the test we used the following conditions:

1000 folders (with nesting level = 4)
100 users
1 000 000 files (virtual files, no actual files on the disk)

In general, FileGears managed the test stress well. The application remains responsive during folder and file navigation, including moving between folders, expanding and collapsing folders, and switching from one page to another in a file list.

We found that the folder permissions popup window tends to slow down with large number of system users and so we performed a minor optimization in the permission management user interface. Now Edit Folder and Folder Users popups loads very fast.

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New Feature - Email Selected Files

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:30:22 GMT

Today we published a new feature allowing you to email files to your team-mates or friends directly from FileGears. Select files you want to email and click Email Selected. Then enter a recipient list, as comma separated email addresses, include subject and message and click Send button. Files that you selected will be attached to the email message.

You can use Email Selected feature in any folder where you have at least “Read only” permissions, and from the search results page, as well.

For system administrators there is a way to limit total size of files which system users can attach to a single message. We have added a corresponding field to the Email Settings page (Settings Email Settings).

Of course, you can leave the field empty if you do not need any limits.

Enjoy!

Posted in: Updates

Meet FileGears!

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:25:44 GMT

Hi, friends!

This post is to introduce FileGears – a tool for file collaboration and file sharing. We hope the application will make your life simpler, at least when it comes to files. We put much energy, pace and inspiration into this product to make it useful and nice-looking. We are going to keep improving it and make it even better with your help. Please feel free to post comments to the blog or Twitter and send us your testimonials, ideas or questions.

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