Yakkle Emoticons Are Here

Announcing release v0.5.7


We've had a real spike in the number of new Yakkle users and want to thank you all for your continued feedback and the many blogs, articles and reviews that are now appearing all over the net and all over the world. We are featuring them on our "News" page, so if you find one or write one, let us know and we'll add a link to you.


What's New In This Release?

Automatic status updates: In our last release, we introduced automatically setting your status to "Away" if you have left your computer. If you were Yakkling, we did not set your status automatically. With this release we will. If you are Yakkling and leave your computer and forget to stop Yakkling, we'll automatically change your status to "Away" for you. We've also changed the "Away" time from 5 minutes to 3 minutes, meaning that if you leave your computer for 3 minutes, we will automatically determine you are away.

New Releases: If you start Yakkle and we have a new release for you to install, we will automatically notify you of this. You can click on the "What's New?" button to instantly see what we've changed in the new release so that you can download and use it.

Emoticons are here: Send a smile, a happy face, a wink, a heart and more. When instant messaging with someone, you will now see an emoticon smiley face in the chat area. Click on this face and you will see all the different emoticons that we currently support. Pick any of these and they'll be sent along with your text to the person you are chatting with. We automatically convert the icon into text so that if you happen to be chatting with someone not using Yakkle, they will still be able to see your smiley face.

Here's our first set of emoticons.





If you want more or have a suggestion for some, send us the text pattern, like :-) and what the resulting emoticon should be and we'll draw some more.


Have fun with this latest release... get your own copy of Yakkle at http://www.yakkle.com

Turbocharged Desktop Sharing

Announcing Release v0.5.6

First, we want to thank all you Yakklers out there that gave us feedback, sent us feature requests and told us about issues you were having.

Here's the latest goodies:

• Usability improvements including: tighter spacing in the Contacts list so that you can see more of your contacts without having to scroll, as well as some color, font and icons cleanup.
  


• File Sharing fixes: for those sharing very large files. See instantly how much data has been transferred and how much is left to go.
  


• Desktop Sharing performance: the desktop sharing code has been optimized and supercharged to bring you the best desktop sharing performance that Java can offer.
  


• Automatic status updates: have you ever set yourself to be "available" and then walked away from your computer? Your friends, family, or colleagues see that you are available but get no response when trying to Yakkle or Chat with you. With this release, Yakkle will automatically see that you are away and change your status to "Away". When you return, Yakkle will automatically reset your status to what it was before you left your computer. There's no need for away messages now!
  


• Googlemail.com support: for some of you, your gmail account is actually googlemail.com and not gmail.com. Yakkle now automatically picks the proper server to log you into and to get you connected.
  

Have fun with this latest release... get your own copy of Yakkle at http://www.yakkle.com