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27th June 2010 - Ticker Tape v1.2.0 now available!
This minor release of Ticker Tape
adds the ability to easily configure all aspects of the Ticker Tape Administrator
and Agent from within the software itself, rather than having to edit numerous configuration
files as in previous versions. Additionally, a new 'Live Preview' function allows
you to see the affect of any Agent message bar configuration changes in real-time
as you adjust Agent parameters on the fly.
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20th February 2010 - Ticker Tape v1.1.0 now available!
This updated version of Ticker
Tape corrects a number of minor issues with the initial release and increases its
general resilience. A small amount of additional functionality has also been added
following user feedback, specifically the ability to customize some aspects of the
Agent message, including its font characteristics and the width of the message bar.
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1st November 2009 - BeTrayed v1.1 now available!
A long overdue update to the beta
version I originally released at the end of 2004! The basic functionality is just
about the same as the original version, but it's been virtually re-written internally
and is generally more resilient and better at automatically determining the most
aesthetically pleasing icon to use in the System Tray for any specific application
or document.
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19th July 2010 - Refreshed web site design!
Hope you like the new design!
The old one had been around for quite a while and was beginning to look a bit dated - as well as a fresh look, improvements to how screen shots are viewed have been made!
15th August 2010 - Update to Ticker Tape, v1.2.1, now available!
This minor update
corrects a few small glitches and introduces some additional user requested functionality
including the ability to suppress Agent messages under certain circumstances (when
a full-screen application, such as a PowerPoint presentation, is running, when the
Agent is within particular IP subnet ranges - connected in via a VPN perhaps - and
when a particular marker file is found on the Agent workstation.)
Additionally, any message can now be flagged as an ‘alert’ causing it to flash at the Agent workstations and ‘grab’ the users attention. Potentially useful for quickly advising users of rare - and likely non computer system related - safety or security incidents that may affect them.
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5th December 2010 - Minor update to Ticker Tape available!
Primarily a maintenance
release, along with a good number of cosmetic tweaks, v1.2.3 introduces a few small
enhancements to the main Ticker Tape Administrator interface and optimises its network
communications, leading to general performance improvements especially where there
are many Sites.
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24th October 2010 - Ticker Tape, v1.2.2, available!
This update corrects a few issues
that Ticker Tape had with message expiry times in places where the regional settings
of the Administrator and Agent computers differed from the UK norm of ‘dd/mm/yy’,
causing Ticker Tape to inadvertently expire a message too soon.
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6th March 2011 - Ticker Tape v1.3 released!
Along with correcting a few minor, but
annoying, glitches in both the Administrator and Agent components, this release includes
some significant additional functionality enhancements and some important cosmetic
changes to the Agent in particular.
Rather than ‘jumping’ a character at a time, Agent messages now scroll smoothly a pixel at a time (though this can be changed) and, through introducing some basic ‘ballistic’ effects, the message bar now behaves in a more natural way when it’s dragged and released.
Additionally, the Administrator now exposes more control over the Agent configuration; along with the option of now allowing the user to exit the Agent software via the Agent pop-up context menu, the Administrator can now also provide a custom menu link to a URL (an Intranet status page for example)
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15th May 2011 - v1.3.1 of Ticker Tape released!
This minor update to Ticker Tape introduces
a little additional functionality by way of the ability to view the detail of previously
sent messages, but is primarily a maintenance release intended to ensure that Ticker
Tape is not accidentally identified as ‘potentially unsafe’ by the ‘heuristics’ mode
of a small number of Anti-Virus products.
This particular issue occurs as, in previous releases, the Ticker Tape executables were compressed to help ensure they had as small a physical footprint as possible - unfortunately, due to previous abuse of compression technology in general by some malware authors, the ‘heuristics’ algorithms of some Anti-Virus software are prone to flag up any software using such technology as ‘potentially unsafe’ - whether they actually are or not! In order to completely avoid this issue, the Ticker Tape executables now don’t use any compression so can’t get confused as ‘unsafe’ by any A/V software.. Please see this forum post for additional background and the results of previous multi-vendor Anti-Virus scans of the Ticker Tape software.
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28th June 2011 - New minor version of Ticker Tape released, v1.3.2
Nothing more than
a re-branding of Ticker Tape from JohnnyFoster.com to the new web site, AmberSoftware.co.uk,
no new functionality is introduced by this particular update so if you’re already
using v1.3.1 don’t worry about upgrading - there’s no need!
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