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Wed, 25 Feb 2004

Inferiis - Mushroom 1.3 Press Release

Hello



I'm happy to announce that Mushroom 1.3 has just been released.

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Mushroom 1.3

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Mushroom is an easy to use developer tool for software localization. It has been designed to help the developers to create and maintain the localized resources and to keep them synchronized with the source code of their Cocoa projects. Mushroom also provides advanced features to improve team work, especially with third party translators.



Main features include

- Designed to work on projects.

- Reports all incoherences inside your project.

- Automatizes the whole localization process.

- Distributed localization support (team work).

- GUI for the "genstrings" and "nibtool" utilities





This release is a important update of Mushroom. It introduces several new features and improves many parts of the software.



The support for Xcode's projects has been added. Mushroom is now able to read the new project format and to recognize the new ".xcode" document bundles.



It also introduces the "NIB Helper" utility along the main application. NIB Helper is a GUI for the "nibtool" utility which has been designed to let you easily use Mushroom when working with Interface Builder's NIB files.



The text encoding and the format of the string dictionary files can now be specified for each Mushroom project. The settings are used when reading the files when opening or refreshing a project and when creating new files. Mushroom also provides conversion functionalities to preserve an homogenous state of the resources. The standard file format and the one used by WebObjects are supported.



In the previous releases, the key of the selected localized string was displayed above the localization edition text field. It is also now possible to display the localization corresponding to any supported language. That simple feature greatly improves the user experience when working on the localizations.



The performances of the application have been improved in many areas, especially when importing or exporting a project (orders of magnitude in some cases), and a few dialogs and inspectors have been revamped.





Mushroom 1.3 requires any computer running Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later with developer tools installed, and is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).



Mushroom 1.3 can be downloaded at http://www.inferiis.com/download/Mushroom-1.3.dmg.gz



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More information about our products (full descriptions, version histories, pricing...) is available on our website at http://www.inferiis.com/products/





I'm at your service to answer any question you may have.



Best regards.



Julien Dufour



Inferiis is a development group committed to providing softwares for Mac OS X.

Inferiis - http://www.inferiis.com

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Big Medium Content Management System Adds WYSIWYG Editing and Document Uploads

Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company's web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.

Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company's web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.


"The new graphical editing interface makes editing website text as easy and familiar as using a word processor," said Global Moxie founder Josh Clark. "And the addition of document uploads means that it's easier than ever to share PDF files, Word documents or other downloads with website visitors."


Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems. (A beta preview version is also available for Windows servers.)


The new WYSIWYG editor requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only), Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) or one of many Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1+, Netscape 7.1, and AOL for Mac OS X. Users of other browsers can still continue to use Big Medium, but without the WYSIWYG editing features.


New features in Big Medium 1.3


  • Big Medium's rich-text editor offers WYSIWYG editing for article content and descriptions, as well as the tip editor.
  • The new "download" article type allows documents to be added to websites via Big Medium's easy-to-use interface. (A tabbed interface allows users to select from four article types: Text, Link, Download, Raw HTML).
  • Twenty new template widgets provide enhanced control over the design of Big Medium's custom page templates.
  • New settings in the Big Medium Setup and Site Setup dialogs allow administrators and webmasters to set max-size limits on document uploads.


A detailed list of new features and fixes is available at the Global Moxie website:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/about/news/bigmed13_details.shtml


Sophisticated software, affordable price


Priced at just $129, Big Medium is carefully designed to fit within the technical resources and budgets of even the smallest businesses and non-profits. A single installation of Big Medium can manage hundreds of websites on a single server, allowing organizations to provide individual departments, products, employees, teachers or students with their own sites. One price does it all: There are no per-seat licenses or hidden costs.


Big Medium uses custom design templates to manage any website in its own unique look and feel. The templates are simple to create and change, allowing users to give a website a complete design makeover in a matter of minutes, no matter how large the site. Big Medium also comes with pre-formatted templates, or "skins," allowing users to get up and running with a new site in minutes. Once the sites are set up, administrators can also use Big Medium to backup and duplicate entire sites.


In addition to making it easy to update and maintain website content, Big Medium also gives websites a broad range of interactive features and design elements: easy insertion of pullquotes and images into article pages, content syndication via RSS or JavaScript, printer-friendly pages, "e-mail this page" function, animated navigation bars, and more.


Behind the scenes, every contributor has their own account and password. Big Medium offers five levels of editing permissions, giving site administrators precise control over how writers and editors can add, edit and publish web pages.


Feature Checklist

  • Perl-based


  • Easy to install


  • WYSIWYG content editing ("what you see is what you get")


  • Document uploads


  • Custom page templates


  • Valid, error-free markup and style sheets


  • Clean, intuitive interface


  • Manage multiple websites


  • Can run in a shared hosting environment


  • Content categories and subsections


  • News feeds and content syndication


  • Search-engine-friendly URLs


  • Five levels of access privileges


  • Webpages are static and gentle on the server


  • Unicode (UTF-8) encoding handles text in any language


  • Automated navigation bars and breadcrumbs


  • Unlimited images on article pages


  • Pullquotes on article pages
Pricing and availability


Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems.


About Global Moxie


Global Moxie creates innovative and affordable tools to make the Web a simpler publishing medium for businesses, non-profits and individuals. The company's flagship product, Big Medium, allows even the most hardened technophobes to create and edit web pages, effortlessly managing dynamic, fast-moving websites. Global Moxie's multimedia studio is located in Paris.


Useful Links


Overview of Big Medium's features: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/features.shtml


Complete product tour, including screen shots:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/tour/


Free online demo:

http://demo.globalmoxie.com/


Featured sites using Big Medium: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/featured/

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