Tech Startup 3.0

Hi all… well this last week has produced some massive improvements to HelpBurner… thanks to everyone for their continued feedback that’s helping us bring this all together

The major feature added for this release is blog publishing. You can now publish any topic to any blog that supports the MetaWebLog API – this is basically WordPress and a bunch of others. We’ll put together a better list in the coming weeks.

P.S. Guess what this blog post was put together in? Yep – HelpBurner

What’s New

Blog publishing - this is a biggie and took a lot of planning and time to get right (we think it’s right anyway). We’ll blog shortly how to best use it in more depth.

In the Publish window, click the Accounts button (1) and you’ll be able to enter the details of your blog (web address, username, password…). Once you’ve entered the information, choose the blog category to publish to and publish the topic.

Image Annotations - (thanks to Aaron), we’ve re-worked how the image are resized and how annotations are added (all internal changes). This gets around a few nasty issues to do with image resizing and annotation positioning when an image was very large.

New Website - the new website (incomplete) is up at http://www.helpburner.com

Fixes - Thanks to – Kamran, Les and others for the feedback and bug reports that we’ve completed over the last week

How to Update

If you’re running a new-ish version of HelpBurner then you should see a blue “update available” message at the top of the HelpBurner window. When this occurs it means HelpBurner has downloaded the update and it will be applied next time you restart HelpBurner.

Where to from here?

Thanks to all of you we’re cracking this thing out quickly and getting some great positive feedback and some awesome suggestions along the way

We plan to launch HelpBurner officially in the next four weeks.

Thanks from Mike – team HelpBurner