<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version='2.0'  xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'><channel><title>ArtfulBits News</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><copyright>ArtfulBits (c) 2005-2010, All rights reserved.</copyright><atom:link href='http://www.artfulbits.com/rss.ashx' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' /><description>The rss feed of ArtfulBits company news.</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Email Web Part 1.0 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l1</guid><description><![CDATA[
            <p>ArtfulBits has released new component for Microsoft® SharePoint® - Email Web Part. 
            It allows sending e-mail messages directly from SharePoint site.</p>
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                        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Email.aspx"><img id="Img52" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_email.png" alt="Email Web Part" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/></a>          
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                      <p>
                        With <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Email.aspx"><b>ArtfulBits Email Web Part</b></a>    
                        You can notify task assigned users, send gratitude or just send regular e-mail message.
                        Web Part is fully customizable providing ability to configure it to your personal needs.
                      </p>
                      <p>Main features:</p>
                      <ul>
                        <li>
                            Supports Active Directory users, SharePoint users, SharePoint groups, Distribution Lists as e-mail recipients
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Supports direct e-mail addresses
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Supports e-mail templates
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Permissions management (restrict users to send e-mails)
                        </li>
                      </ul>
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            ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cascaded Lookup 1.0 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l2</guid><description><![CDATA[
            <p>ArtfulBits has released new component for Microsoft SharePoint - Cascaded Lookup Column. 
            It's next step of improving standard SharePoint Lookup functionality.</p>
        ]]><![CDATA[ 
              <p/>
              <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CascadedLookup.aspx"><img id="Img52" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_cascaded_lookup.png" alt="Cacaded Lookup Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/></a>
              <p>
                <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CascadedLookup.aspx"><b>ArtfulBits Cascaded Lookup Column</b></a> allows building parent-child relationship between columns in SharePoint list.
                Other benefits are filtering by list view, AJAX support and conversion among existing lookup columns.
                Save your time by reducing presented options and avoid the possibility of incompatible value selection. 
              </p>
              <p>
                Compare Cascaded Lookup Column to other <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CascadedLookup.aspx#CascadedLookup/Features.aspx">ArtfulBits Lookup Columns</a> and decide what to choose!
              </p>
            ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ArtfulBits SharePoint 2010 compatible Columns become available</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l3</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>
    Recently started migration of ArtfulBits SharePoint Columns to the new SharePoint 2010 platform is now complete.
    Released updates are free, so everyone is welcome to <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/">download</a> & upgrade.
    </p>
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                    <img style="border: 1px solid #CA2908" alt="ArtfulBits SharePoint 2010 Columns" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/sharepoint-2010-logo.jpg"/>
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                    <p>New business collaboration platform recently released by Microsoft brings a number of new features and improvements. Here are just few of them:</p>
                    <ul>
                      <li> Multiple Browser compatibility
                      <li> New UI including Office 2007 Ribbon Style, Dialogs, Live Preview and Themes</li>
                      <li> Significantly improved SharePoint Designer</li>
                      <li> Silverlight Web Parts support</li>
                      <li> Visio Diagrams web viewer</li>
                      <li> Improved Business Connectivity Services</li>
                      <li> A lot of new features and improvements for SharePoint developers</li>
                    </ul>
               
                    <p>
                        During the porting process all ArtfulBits Columns were adopted and tested considering new platform features and changes.
                        All ArtfulBits Column line products keep MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 support. Existing customers could be confident
                        all further improvements and fixes will be included into SharePoint 2007 versions as well.
                    </p>
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      ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>aiCharts for BlackBerry OS Released!</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l4</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits has published new product - aiCharts for BlackBerry. Library for creating 
    professional financial and math charts on BlackBerry platform. Easy and fast, safe and 
    innovative - this is short description of our release.
    </p>
    ]]><![CDATA[
      <h2>aiCharts for BlackBerry OS version 1.0</h2>
      <img align="left" style="padding-right: 8px;" alt="aiCharts for BlackBerry" 
      src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/products/bb_aiCharts3.png"/>
      <p>
        aiCharts (BlackBerry Charts) is a developer library that provides professional charting engine 
        for all kinds of applications. It's designed especially for BlackBerry OS and optimized for battery, 
        memory and CPU usage. aiCharts is the number one professional charting solution for BlackBerry 
        platform. Professional Technical Support, samples, tutorials and subscription makes library
        usage and integration an easy task for any developer. Concentrate efforts on your own tasks, 
        don't spent time on "inventing the wheel".
      </p>
      <p>
        Shortest learning curve for developers, direct support
        from our development team and subscription services allows to start using library in several minutes, instead 
        of several hours. We are sure that every minute we save during library usage will bring  
        our customers more success.  
      </p>
      <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/blackberry/aiCharts.aspx">Read More</a>
      <h3>Screenshots</h3>
      <center>
        <p>
          <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_01.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox[ss5]">
            <img src="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_01_120.png" 
              title="aiCharts Demo Application for BlackBerry"
              alt="aiCharts Samples for BlackBerry" width="122" /></a>
          <wbr/>
          <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_02.png" target="_blank"  rel="lightbox[ss5]">
            <img src="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_02_120.png" 
              title="aiCharts Demo Application for BlackBerry"
              alt="aiCharts Samples for BlackBerry" width="122"/></a>
          <wbr/>
          <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_03.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox[ss5]">
            <img src="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_03_120.png" 
              title="aiChart Samples for BlackBerry"
              alt="aiCharts Samples for BlackBerry" width="122"/></a>
          <wbr/>
          <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_04.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox[ss5]">
            <img src="http://www.artfulbits.com/Templates/promo-bb-1.0/bb_chart_04_120.png" 
              title="aiCharts Samples for BlackBerry"
              alt="aiCharts Samples for BlackBerry" width="122"/></a>
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      ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First SharePoint 2010 Compatible Products Released!</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l5</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits has published first result of SharePoint 2010 migration. 
    First two products - <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CrossSiteLookup.aspx#Download.aspx">Cross-Site Lookup</a> and <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ParentSelector.aspx#Download.aspx">Parent Selector</a> columns are migrated and ready for download.
    </p>
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      ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>aiPrototyping 1.4 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l6</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits has release new version of the Visio Stencils for Android GUI Prototyping.
    This release significantly enhance prototyping visual experience.
    </p>
  ]]><![CDATA[
      <h2>aiPrototyping New Version - 1.4 Released</h2>
      <img align="left" style="padding-right: 8px;" alt="Android Prototyping" 
      src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/products/stencils.png"/>
      <p>
        Many our customers asking us about enhancements, and we are doing our best
        to provide requested features and functionality. Today's release is a big update
        of current aiPrototyping product (also known as Visio stencils for Android GUI 
        Prototyping) and at the same time composition with our best seller product - <a 
        href="http://www.artfulbits.com/android/aiCharts.aspx">aiCharts</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
        Update contains more elements for real Android applications prototyping and reflects
        latest innovations in GUI created by Google and other platform vendors.
      </p>
      <h3>What's New in 1.4</h3>
      <ul>
        <li>Included stencil for business charts prototyping.</li>
        <li>Visual experience is based on aiCharts library graphics</li>
        <li>Added Widgets stencils: landscape and portrait orientation.</li>
        <li>Different widget size support: 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x1, 4x4</li>
        <li>Double click behavior improvements for all stencils elements</li>
      </ul>
      <p>
        To Download latest version please proceed with e-mail registration by link: <a
        href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/Downloads.aspx">Download Request Form</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
        <i>Please Note: links on downloadable content are inside e-mail, so placing invalid 
        e-mails in form fields will simply force you returning to our page one more time. 
        I hope this warning will help you save your own time.</i>
      </p>
      <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/aiPrototyping.aspx">Read more</a>
      ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>aiCharts for Android 1.5 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l7</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits has release new version of the best Android Charts Engine - aiCharts library.
    This major release that significantly enhance library functionality and visual experience.
    </p>
  ]]><![CDATA[
      <h2 id="Whats_New">What's New in 1.5</h2>
      <p>
        Complete set of changes can be found in <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/doc/history-files/history.html" 
        target="doc" title="">On-line Documentation History</a>.
      </p>
      <table style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr>
          <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;">
            <h3>Release summary</h3>
            <ul>
              <li>Chart look and feel enhancements</li>
              <li>improved user interactions</li>
              <li>Complex data type support</li>
              <li>Performance and CPU utilization improvements</li>
              <li>New chart types</li>
            </ul>
          </td>
          <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;">
            <h3>New chart types</h3>
            <ul>
              <li>Chart Range Column</li>
              <li>Chart Range Area</li>
              <li>Chart Doughnut Type</li>
              <li>Chart Rose Type</li>
              <li>Chart Step Area</li>
            </ul>
          </td>
        </tr>
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          <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;" colspan="2">
            <h3>New features</h3>
            <ul>
              <li>Hit testing. Tracking of each chart's element allows building ever more interactive charts.</li>
              <li>Ability to "break" line-like types (Line, Spline, StepLine, etc.)</li>
              <li>Ability to set start angle for pie chart</li>
              <li>Ability to arrange labels in column for pie chart</li>
              <li>Title XML inflating</li>
              <li>Advanced point label formatting</li>
            </ul>
          </td>
        </tr>
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          <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;" colspan="2">
            <h3>Improvements</h3>
            <ul>
              <li>Legend customization. Adding empty cells, custom cells implementation, items layout enhancements</li>
              <li>Drawable padding support</li>
              <li>Animated scrolling. Now chart reacts more naturally to user actions</li>
              <li>Date-time computation logic improved. Intervals measurement revamped</li>
              <li>Titles smoothing. Now chart titles appear even more attractive</li>
              <li>Accommodation for large bulks of data. Smart UI updates only when necessary</li>
              <li>Striplines API logic improved</li>
            </ul>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/aiCharts.aspx">Read more</a>
      ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Professional Calendar 1.0 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l8</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits has released another component for Microsoft SharePoint - Professional Calendar Web Part. 
    It's a professional version of our <a href="/SharePointProducts/CalendarFree.aspx">Free Enhanced Calendar</a> and next step of improving standard SharePoint Calendar functionality.</p>
    ]]><![CDATA[ 
      <p/>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ProfessionalCalendar.aspx">
          <img id="Img52" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_calendar_48.png" 
            alt="Image Upload Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
   <p>
     <b>ArtfulBits Professional Calendar Web Part</b> provides following key benefits: it allows combining events from different SharePoint Lists, from any SharePoint Site, in one Calendar view; allows specifying different color sets for different event sources; supports on-the-fly AJAX-enabled editing features in Outlook 2007 like style; and other enhanced functionalities.
   </p>
   <p>
     See <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ProfessionalCalendar.aspx#ProfessionalCalendar/Features.aspx">Professional and Free Enhanced Calendar comparison</a> for more details.
   </p>
    ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chirp 1.1 Beta Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l9</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits released public new beta version of it's Betamax client Chirp for Windows Mobile. Among major features are history and improved contacts user experience and performance.</p>
    ]]><![CDATA[ 
   <p>
    Chirp Beta can be downloaded from <a href="/Products/Chirp.aspx">Chirp product page</a> via direct HTTP link or using torrent magnet URI.
   </p>
   <p>
    Please post feedback in <a href="/Support/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=35">Chirp Official Feedback forum thread</a>.
   </p>
   <p>
    Detailed version history can be found <a href="/Support/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=37">here</a>.
   </p>
    ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SharePoint Components 1.2 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l10</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>Taken into consideration users' suggestions and remarks, ArtfulBits released new version of Image Upload and Discussion Column for SharePoint.</p>
    ]]><![CDATA[ 
      
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        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ImageUpload.aspx">
          <img id="Img52" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_imageupload3_48.png" 
            alt="Image Upload Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Image Upload Column v1.2</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added options for restricting image size on list item Edit/Display forms.<br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ImageUpload.aspx#ImageUpload/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
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      <td>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Discussion.aspx">
          <img id="Img53" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_discussion_48.png" 
            alt="Discussion Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Discussion Column v1.2</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added ability to import data (text) from existing SharePoint Multiple lines of text column.<br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Discussion.aspx#Discussion/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
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   <p>
    Also, a few days ago ArtfulBits DateTime Column v1.0 for SharePoint was released.
   </p>
   <p>
    <img src="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/DateTime/images/gallery1.png" alt="DateTime Column"/>
   </p>
   <p>
  Essential feature of our component is cross-browser support (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome compatible) instead of standard SharePoint Date & Time Column.
  <br/>
   <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/DateTime.aspx#DateTime/Overview.aspx">Read more</a> about other DateTime Column features.
   </p>
    ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SharePoint Components Pack 1.1 Released</title><link>http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.artfulbits.com/Company/News.aspx#l11</guid><description><![CDATA[
    <p>ArtfulBits released update of the following SharePoint Components: Follow-Up Column, Image Upload Column, Discussion Column, Cross-Site Lookup Column, Parent Selector Column.</p>
    ]]><![CDATA[ 
      
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        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/FollowUp.aspx">
          <img id="Img51" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_followup3_48.png" 
            alt="Follow-Up Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/> 
        </a>
        <b>Follow-Up Column v1.1</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added "Complete" option, added different calendars support. <br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/FollowUp.aspx#FollowUp/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ImageUpload.aspx">
          <img id="Img52" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_imageupload3_48.png" 
            alt="Image Upload Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Image Upload Column v1.1</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added options for restricting image size in list view. <br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ImageUpload.aspx#ImageUpload/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Discussion.aspx">
          <img id="Img53" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_discussion_48.png" 
            alt="Discussion Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Discussion Column v1.1</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added abilities to sort Entries and change Signature position. <br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/Discussion.aspx#Discussion/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CrossSiteLookup.aspx">
          <img id="Img53" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_cross_site_lookup_48.png" 
            alt="Cross-Site Lookup Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Cross-Site Lookup Column v1.1</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added ability to add lookup item on the fly, improved Picker Dialog <br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/CrossSiteLookup.aspx#CrossSiteLookup/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>
        <a href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ParentSelector.aspx">
          <img id="Img53" src="http://www.artfulbits.com/images/sp/ico_parent_lookup_48.png" 
            alt="Parent Selector Column" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;"/>
        </a>
        <b>Parent Selector Column v1.1</b><br/>
        Major improvements: added Validate Hierarchical Integrity (checking whether hierarchical data is non-cyclic. <br/>
        <a class="link-more" href="http://www.artfulbits.com/SharePointProducts/ParentSelector.aspx#ParentSelector/Download.aspx">Read more</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
   </table>      
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