Award Winning Release for BlackBerry Now Available.
Attention Viigo users – our newest release for BlackBerry, Version 2.2.80 is now available. For an immediate download click here (from your BB Browser) or head over to http://getviigo.com for your upgrade.
Just this morning, BerryReview.com reviewed this release, awarding it a 9/10 Star ranking and an Editor’s Choice Award.
Visit our corporate blog for the full release notes.
What’s New
The latest release of Viigo for BlackBerry is focused on delivering important usability improvements as requested by our users in the past few months. (… so keep the feedback coming).
More Screen Real-Estate
In version 2.2.70 we introduced the support for MMA compliant banner advertisements (and increased the banner size by a few pixels). This, in addition to the adoption of standard sized icons (you’ll see the exciting reason for this in an up-coming release) resulted in the display of fewer feeds per page.
In an effort to optimize screen real estate, we have removed the “My Channels” header (which really served no useful purpose), thereby increasing the number of channels that will fit on the home screen.
User-Defined Fonts
Previous Viigo builds used to partially override BlackBerry’s ‘theme settings’, giving users little choice but to live with what some called “large, squishy, bold text”.
As of this release, Viigo will simply use the font you have specified in your Blackberry screen defaults (i.e. the same font as your eMail).
Delete Key shortcut
While Viigo currently supports many of the BlackBerry’s intuitive short cut keys (such as ‘T’ to go to the top of a screen), users were hoping for an easier and faster way to delete feeds they no longer wanted. Viigo’s new release now enables the user to remove feeds – and articles within feeds – instantaneously by hitting the ‘del’ key.
Send Article to Me
In sifting through hundreds of feeds, mobile users often come across one or two articles they would like to save and read at a later date. This new release gives users a one-click option to email an article to themselves– all without leaving the application. Here’s How: When viewing an article, launch the menu and select “Send Article to Me”.
Blogging Tools
The convenience of publishing articles directly to one’s blog from within Viigo is indeed appealing. However, in prior releases, the inability to remove “[Viigo]” from the email subject line was proving to be frustrating to users. With the new version of Viigo, users can now customize the subject line … entirely. Post away!
Maximum Articles Per Channel
Users are able to define the maximum number of articles they want delivered across all channels, a convenient solution to those few channels that download hundreds of feeds daily. The default is 50 (ie – No channel will contain more than 50 articles). Here’s How: Launch the Menu > Options > Article Settings
Foreign Language Support
We have improved our support for foreign character sets in “Full Article”. All foreign character sets should now be supported.
Support for the Mobile Optimized Web Content
We now have the ability to open “Full Articles” automatically in the browser for feeds that have excellent mobile optimized content.
One excellent example of this can be found in the default Reuters feeds (for example Reuters: Business). We encourage you view the articles in this feed, and to click on “Full Article” for a closer look at how well this works.
Google Reader Integration (Phase 1)
You will be pleased to hear that Viigo now allows you to automatically synchronize all your Google Reader feeds.
If you have a Google Reader Account (or a Yahoo, or Bloglines account for that matter) you can now establish a dynamic link to these accounts right from Viigo.
Once the link is established, all feeds that you currently subscribe to in your Google Reader account will appear automatically in Viigo. Furthermore, any time you add or remove feeds from your Google Reader Account, these feeds will be added or removed automatically in Viigo.
It may take a few seconds for the first articles to appear in these feeds, so be patient. We call this Google Reader Integration (Phase 1) because it is only the first step in our plans for integration with popular web readers. We’re hoping to offer full read/un-read synchronization in later releases. Here’s How: In the Channel Library, go to Add your own Channel >Add Aggregator (Google Reader…), and follow the Wizard instructions.
Desktop View
Our articles now have support for the “Desktop View” … i.e. BlackBerry’s emulation of a Desktop Browser.
One interesting use of this feature is to scale images (cartoons, for example) that you want to see at a larger size. Check it out on the Dilbert feed.