New Intellect / Time & Chaos

Hello from Chaos Software Group!

Yesterday, we released a new build of Chaos Intellect and Time & Chaos 7, available as free updates to current owners of Intellect and Chaos 7, respectively.

The current version of Chaos Intellect is now 3.0.2.8.
The current version of Time & Chaos is now 7.0.2.8.

As these programs are much the same, but for the email capabilities of Intellect, they share many of the same new features and additions.

What has been added or changed since the x.0.2.6 version?

Updates in Chaos Intellect and Time & Chaos

• If you have a password protected database, the password screen now has immediate focus for keyboard use to save you a mouse click.
• Significant improvements have been made to the data importing feature to make it much easier to operate, more forgiving on date and time formats, and easier to import custom fields and phone numbers/email addresses.
• The contact list in Classic View can now have its own customized column widths, independent of the full screen Contacts View
• improvements to the handling of custom font changes.
• improved handling of invalid paths in the netinfo.cds file.  Program will now open although with supporting error messages.
• added some new options on the "Information about this data" page to perform easy resetting of preferences to default, resetting toolbars etc.  (mostly to simplify tech support).
• ability to change the width of the telephone labels column on the contact entry screen.
• fixed a bug in the appointments module that was causing unnecessary amounts of disk access
• added the style to the Today page appointments to allow the canceling or bolding of appointments from that screen
• monthview tasks now sort in priority order
• fixed an issue when adding an activity series on the Linked Tasks or Linked Appointments from within a contact where the linked name could be lost.
• deleting linked appointments and tasks from within the contact record that are part of a series no longer popup the option to delete the series as the entire series is already displayed.
• the Vista ALT key should now behave normally.
• support for vCal variant of iCal (files with .ics)
• vCal files are now correctly opening with an enabled OK button to allow saving.
• added support for the new Office 2007 template files extensions of .dotx and .docx
• new Vista-style splitter bars
• restyled telephone number entry area.  Improved appearance, tabbing ....
• new print tweak for weekly calendar to print the appointments in vertical columns instead of horizontal.
• new print tweak for the weekly calendar to AutoExpand to fit for clients with many appointments.
• toolbars and menus now inherit the font face set in appearance options.
• the storage location for custom spelling dictionaries has been moved to the Application Data Folder so that vista users can save entries.
• next previous buttons on a contact entry screen will now also work on the results list of a report.
• Finally, these programs were recompiled under Delphi 2007.  The new "fast strings" library in Delphi 2007 should provide increased performance for our software.

Updates in Chaos Intellect only

• MAPI support (finally)!  Some programs have an "email this" option, (including the Microsoft Office applications), which previously could only use a big email program like MS Outlook.  With this new addition, using the Send This Page from most applications should now work fine with Intellect!
• When you setup a new email account, we added buttons to TEST the account settings prior to clicking OK, so you can help determine whether you provided the correct information or not.
• To, CC, BCC can now accept pasted text containing carriage returns.  eg.  copying a column of email addresses from excel.
• small improvements to the updating process for the mail cache for networked users.
• fixed an issue when a native TIFF file was attached to a mail message
• added a new feature in the message compose screen "Save Selection" which is under the Edit menu (F8)This feature allows us to highlight a block of text and save it as an HTML snippet, which can later be inserted as HTML (F10).  Useful for multiple signature blocks, repetitive answers etc.
• created a new shell link so that you can now highlight 1 or more files in windows and select the SEND TO email recipient to create a new mail message with the highlighted files attached.
• mailto: handling has been improved to support cc, bcc, subjects, attachments and body text.
• When reading HTML messages, when you mouse over a hyperlink, the path will display below on the status bar.
• Clicking on bookmarks within an HTML message should now work correctly.

Software awards for Chaos Intellect

We have been getting a lot of new awards lately for our Chaos Intellect email client. Here are the current ones:

How to update your software

If you would like to update an previous version of Time & Chaos 7 or of Chaos Intellect 3, just go to the Help menu and look for "Check for newer version". Using this option, the program will check for a newer version and offer to download and install it for you.

We recommend allowing it to use the options that it wants to during install to replace your old version with the new. Any data files you have will not be affected by installing the update!

If you have a much older version of Time & Chaos, prior to version 7, you can download a trial version of one of these new products from our web site and see the improvements for yourself. Our web site is http://www.chaossoftware.com/ .

Thanks for your business and support!

Best regards,
The Team at Chaos Software Group, Inc.