Release Notes

Version 0.9.1 // January 21, 2011

• 10x speedup for joining/restoring archives
• Simplify online subscription activation & deactivation
• improve copy & paste support
• Numerous usability and UI improvements
• new icon, logo and splash screen

Version 0.9.0 // July 19, 2010

• Overhaul navigation UI, add back/forward/home, refresh and backup buttons
• Import email & attachments from .eml or .mbox files
• Improve reliability of cloud operations
• Numerous minor UI enhancements

Version 0.8.7 // May 11, 2010

• Add support for viewing password-protected PDFs
• Update PDFBox library for better PDF rendering
• Don't show folder expand icon for empty folders
• Fix bug that could cause UI to freeze during sync

Version 0.8.6 // April 29, 2010

• Add info panel in detail view with description, summary, file size and context
• Title, description and date can now be double-clicked to edit in detail view
• Autocomplete for faster, more accurate tagging
• Add support for a number of digital camera raw image formats (crw, cr2, nef, dng, raf, mrw, orf, tiff)
• Store HD screen proxy of large images for faster sharing & viewing
• numerous UI tweaks and bug fixes

Version 0.8.5 // March 17, 2010

• one click to open a copy of any archived file in the associated application
• full screen view for better image and PDF viewing experience
• organize tags in folders, e.g. vacation/hawaii and vacation/europe
• initial screen presents task-oriented buttons to guide new users
• Web Pages now have their own Type filter
• add sharpening to improve PDF legibility and thumbnail clarity
• remove password block from preferences, only needed for changing account password
• fix bug that could cause cloud syncing to hang with large archives
• reduce screen flickering and list jumping when importing or switching views
• Allow previous/next and slideshow to loop through end of list

Version 0.8.4 // February 16, 2010

• deep web page archiving - now stores page with associated images and styles
• improved HTML viewer
• thumbnails generated for archived web pages
• follow links in archived web pages, or open original URL in browser

Version 0.8.3 // February 2, 2010

• Access control for sharing clouds with specific other users by email or Amazon ID
• Bandwidth control for uploads to a cloud and downloads from clouds and the web
• fix drag & drop of files, folders and URLs on Mac
• Moving average time estimate for progress bars
• fix "fit width" zoom for rotated images

Version 0.8.2 // January 22, 2010

• move log file to {user.home}/bigcloud/bigcloud.log (also where account info is stored)
• add ability to view PDF documents fully inside the application
• add zoom control for images and PDFs

Version 0.8.1 // January 19, 2010

• Add native Windows EXE and Mac DMG distributions for better OS integration
• Improve file chooser usability on Mac OS X
• Add experimental video playback support with VLC
• switch to TagSoup HTML parser from NekoHTML
• support drag-and-drop of plain URLs to download
• enable List and Detail items under View menu
• change license to clarify that software is free as in beer,not free as in speech

Version 0.8.0 // January 12, 2010

Initial public release.  Considered a stable beta, useful and feature-rich but needing testing in the wild, and missing some features that wil mark a true 1.0 (video playback integration, better HTML viewing experience, PDF reading, private cloud sharing)