Web-based collaborative environments, similar to Microsoft Sharepoint, are now offered by LuxSci.

For LuxSci users with a WebAide license, the widgetized “Welcome Page” area is now the “Workspaces” area.  Here, licensed users can:

• Create any number of Workspaces with arbitrary configurations of widgets per workspace
• Share Workspaces with other licensed users

Additionally, Workspaces for all users are “active” in that:

• Widgets based on WebAides (i.e. Calendars, Address Books, Blogs, Tasks, Links, Documents, etc.) auto-update themselves so that any changes made to the underlying entries are visible to you within one minute.
• The “Email Quick Check” widget which shows you the status of one or multiple email folders updates your folder status automatically every two minutes.
• The “Notepad” widget auto-saves your changes, merges them with changes made by others and auto-updates your display with the most recent merged content — real-time collaborative note taking.
• Other widgets whose content can change also update automatically.

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LuxSci has expanded the functionality of its Notepad widgets to make them ideal for collaborative editing, especially in the context of shared Workspaces.

The Notepad widget is available to all LuxSci users. It provides a customizable area where you can view and edit notes — in either plain text or using a visual editor with full HTML markup support.  The Notepad widget auto-saves any changes you make to your notes within seconds of your changes — no need to press a “save” button”.  It’s easy – you just type.

So, what’s new?

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Email filtering services provided by MX Logic works by having your email delivered to their filtering servers first (because your DNS MX records point there).  Once filtered, their servers will deliver the messages to your email servers for ultimate delivery to your INBOX or other folders.

If a spammer knows what your “actual email servers” are (often because they didn’t change after adding MX Logic filtering), they can bypass your costly and very good filters by connecting directly to your email servers, thus taking the filtering servers “out of the loop”.  What can you do?

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