LuxSci has refreshed the look and feel of its Calendar WebAide user interface, bringing the design of the calendar display up to that which people are now seeing in modern calendar interfaces.

Some of the most notable updates include:

• Bar Views: Revised “bar views” for day, work week, and week views.  The updated views handle many overlapping events much better by using overlapping, partially transparent bars.  The new bar view looks like what you would see on an iPhone or iPad.
• Day View: The “day view” has been updated to show both a “list” of the events happening during the date and the “bar view” of those events.  Very easy to see what is going on.
• New List Views: There is new two-tab toggle at the bottom of the calendar display that allows you to quickly switch between “Visual” and “List” views of your events.  I.e. the “visual” view would be a bar graph or a monthly calendar, the “list” view is a sorted list of the events happening in the same time range. Each view is useful in different circumstances or preferred by different people; now its easy to have both and switch as needed.
• Custom Work Week: Users can now specify which days should be in their “work weeks”.  Choose any subset of the days of the week for your “work week” view.

Many other small enhancements also contribute to a better look and more usability.  In the coming weeks, LuxSci will be further extending the usability and functionality of both Calendars and Tasks WebAides, in conjunction with our Mobile Sync service.

Special: LuxSci is offering up to 50% off all upgrades to Premium Email Filtering and Premium Email Archival services for the 1st quarter of 2011.** This includes FailSafe and Message Continuity. To take advantage of this incredible offer, simply update this Support Ticket with confirmation of your desired upgrade(s) as described below, before  Midnight GMT (7 PM Eastern US) this Friday, December 31st.

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LuxSci now offers Basic Mobile Sync and Premium Mobile Sync.  These synchronization services enable:

• Real-time two-way synchronization of Calendar, Contact, and Tasks between LuxSci WebAides and Mobile devices
• Push Email for real time notifications of new email
• Compatibile with any mobile device that supports Exchange / ActiveSync.  This includes: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry*
• HIPAA-compliant security, when used with a LuxSci HIPAA account, adds mobile synchronization for any user, even if sensitive data is present in email, calendars, contacts, or tasks.
• The same level of security can also be had in non-HIPAA accounts by using SecureLine and appropriate security settings.
• Beta: Mobile Sync services are now in “Beta” and not yet available for purchase.  The Beta testing period is expected to end sometime in January, 2011.  If you are interested being a Beta tester and using this service before then, please Contact Sales.

For complete details on the features included with this servce, see our Mobile Sync Service page.

*BlackBerry support requires the purchase of a third party app, as BlackBerry is the only major mobile device without support for over-the-air synchronization with Exchange.

LuxSci has reduced the price of WebAide licenses with new accounts and for new upgrades to existing accounts from $1.75/license/month to $1.50/license/month.

WebAide licenses will be available for only $0.50/license/month if bundled with Basic or Premium Mobile Sync licenses.  This bundle offer will be available in January, 2011, when the Mobile Sync service emerges from Beta testing status.  LuxSci accounts are eligible to beta test Mobile Sync by Contacting Sales.

LuxSci has extensively revised and enhanced its “AutoResponder” tools to provide a very intuitive interface and some new, advanced features that transform the concept of AutoResponder from your basic “vacation” notice into a customizable, auditable, email response platform.

What is new?

• Custom Response Criteria: AutoResponders can now be linked to Custom Email Filters.  This enables you to designate complex criteria for when an AutoResponder will be used.  For example, respond based on the sender address, the subject content, body content, header content, message size, etc.
• Audit Trail: Users can now view or download  a history of all responses sent by their AutoResponders.  This history includes: when the response was sent, to whom, which AutoResponder was used, and the subject of the original email message.
• HTML Editor: For AutoResponders with HTML response body content, this content can now be edited directly using our web-based visual HTML editor tools.
• Many Responders: Users can now create any number of AutoResponders and keep them around to be used as needed.  Combined with our scheduling features, you can now have different AutoResponses enabled at different times in the future.

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LuxSci’s HIPAA Certification Seal is an image that HIPAA accounts can place on their web sites and/or include in their email signatures to show that their email and/or web forms are HIPAA compliant.  Clicking on the LuxSci HIPAA Seal takes one to a custom LuxSci page certifying that the customer is using specific LuxSci security services for compliance reasons.

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Through a special deal with our premium server provider, RackSpace, LuxSci is now able to offer all new web hosting accounts 200 GB/month of high quality bandwidth for web and FTP usage, instead of the 10 GB/month previously included, at no additional cost!

How to take advantage of this? Simply order any account that includes web hosting and you will receive 200GB/month of bandwidth.

What about existing customers? Existing web hosting customers interested in taking advantage of this new bandwidth offer can contact LuxSci Sales.  LuxSci will review your account and update it to take advantage of any new pricing or offers for which you may be eligible.  Monthly accounts are eligible for contract changes starting at the beginning of the next month; yearly accounts at the beginning of their next year’s term.

LuxSci has finished updating its Web Interface, giving it a much more modern look via use of some technologies present in most modern web browsers, like Google Chrome, FireFox 3.6+, Safari, Opera 10, and Internet Explorer 9.

The web interface:

• Now is now fully compatible with Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome for Mac
• Is fastest in Google Chrome, out of all available web browsers
• Looks best in: Google Chrome, FireFox 3.6+, or Safari 5
• Still looks pretty good in Opera 10 and Internet Explorer 9
• Looks fine in other supported browsers (the interface is backwards compatible with older technologies) like Internet Explorer 6-8, Opera 9, FireFox 2+, and older supported versions of Safari.

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LuxSci has added several new SMTP usage analysis tools which are especially useful for customers sending bulk email though our High Volume Outbound Email Service.

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LuxSci’s WebAide Calendars now support on-demand and automatic import of calendar data from external calendar sources published as iCal files.

If you have a calendar, i.e. from Google or some other company, which is accessible as an iCal file via a web link, then you can now pull that calendar data into your LuxSci WebAide calendars manually or continuously.

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