Effusia 4.4 is Here!
We’re officially announcing the release of Effusia 4.4. The new features in this release reflect the great feedback we’ve received from our customers. I want to thank all our customers that have offered compliments and constructive criticism over the years. Effusia is a better product because of you. So keep it coming and let us know what you think at our Contact Us page. So what’s in store for you with Effusia 4.4?
Quick Reply
We’re very excited about our new Quick Reply feature. Ever needed to ignore a message for a second but you still wanted to respond with a quick “I’m busy right now”? I think every IM user has. Well, Quick Reply makes it easy to setup and send one of a list of canned responses with just a click or a keystroke. All you do is setup some Quick Replies like “I’m on the phone” or “Be with you in a minute” in our Quick Reply editor. (Effusia 4.4 comes with 3 of them conveniently setup for you.) Then when you receive a message you don’t quite have time for, you can send a quick reply by clicking on the little down arrow by the send button and selecting one of your replies. Just pick one and it sends automatically! For those of you out there who like even more efficiency, you can just type Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc in the message field and it will send any of your first 9 quick replies.
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Better Message Indicators
If you’ve got a conversation open in Effusia and a new message arrives, it’s always flashed the icon on the conversation window’s task bar button. Some of our customers told us they thought that that wasn’t enough to easily get people’s attention. With that in mind, we’ve enhanced the flashing when a new message is received. Now, the entire task bar button for the conversation will flash to let you know there’s a message waiting. This works well even if you have the “Group similar taskbar buttons” property turned on in Windows. If you have multiple conversations open and they’ve been grouped by Windows into one button, the whole group will flash to let you know there’s a message waiting.
If you like this new stuff, give the rest of our great features a try and download a free trial. For you customers on a maintenance contract out there, we’ll be in touch soon to get you setup with your free upgrade to Effusia 4.4. And keep the comments coming for 4.5!
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