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Fluxiom is a wonderful way to avoid email overload, especially when collaborating with others. Email is still part of the experience, though, when it makes the most sense: we mail links and updates to your contacts on your behalf to make sure they see them, and we sometimes need to get rapidly in touch with you about invoices, service updates and account configuration changes.

You might have noticed that, once in a blue moon, Fluxiom emails can get caught in SPAM filters. As SPAM levels rise on the Internet, email administrators require increasingly complex authentication measures: the burden is on us to prove we are good guys.

To that effect, we have now switched to a vastly improved email delivery system, that turns all the authentication knobs to eleven. Rest assured no action is required on your part.

Our emails should now reach you faster, and even fewer will be erroneously marked as SPAM. Going forward, our administrators will also be able to collect global filtering data, and will tweak content or formatting to further improve delivery.

As always, please let us know if you, or anybody you share files with, experience any issues with Fluxiom emails. We are committed to continuously improving and streamlining your experience with the application, and that extends to every single message we send.

With the latest update we’ve made Fluxiom more finger friendly. More and more customers are using the iPad on a daily basis so we wanted to improve the experience. Share large files like videos or images on the go or download a PDF right to iBooks, no problem!

We have rolled out an update that fixes an issue with the Remember Me functionality.

The old “Remember me” function was not working properly and caused troubles for some of you, and we really regret that. So we put some time aside to not just quickly fix this issue but overhaul the whole process.

When signing in to Fluxiom, you are given the option to click Remember me on this computer, so the next time you open your browser and visit Fluxiom, you are not required to sign in again. As long as you don’t explicitly sign out, Fluxiom will remember your browser.

Fluxiom can also keep you logged in on different machines at the same time. Logging out on one machine will not log you out on any other computer or mobile device where you previously logged in with “Remember me” checked.

The “Remember me” functionality is a great option for your personal computers or your mobile devices. However if you are using a publicly-accessible computer we recommend to not use the “Rembember me” functionality or at least make sure that you click “Sign out” before you leave the computer.

We also added additional security updates and included SSL encryption for the Login page for all accounts. While full SSL encryption is included in all Pro-and-higher plans we have added SSL secure encryption for the Login page for all Fluxiom accounts, including the Free accounts.

We hope this improvements make it more convenient for you to access Fluxiom from your different devices be it your laptop, iPad or your office machine.

Happy fluxin’
The Fluxiom Team

PS: We also made a bunch of other changes, we will cover in a separate post…

We just launched an update to the Fluxiom API that brings some big performance improvements, making response times significantly faster.

As part of these improvements, we introduced pagination for assets. Now assets are returned in batches (‘pages’) instead of all at once, and the number of items per page is configurable so you get back only what you need.

There are numerous other goodies, including JSONP support and asset counts for tags.
For full details please refer to the API docs to see what’s new, and if the changes affect your app.

As always, if you have any issues with the API please let us know.

Ok, we are, admittedly, just kidding. Still, we have been hard at work to renew the entire file upload interface in Fluxiom. Built from scratch we included features previously reserved for the native Fluxiom Uploader App.

Say hello to the new Fluxiom Uploader…

We are delighted to announce that Apple just approved our brand-new Fluxiom Uploader for inclusion in the Mac App Store. Upload files and folders right from your desktop with drag-and-drop ease!

Five years ago, to the day, Fluxiom was born out of a desire to share photos and mock-ups with our clients. It was an experiment in Web 2.0 before it became a buzzword, and it pushed the boundaries of what a site could do by bringing a desktop-like interface to the browser.

Thanks to your loyal and enthusiastic support, Fluxiom has grown beyond all our expectations!

To further help our users in making the cloud a reality in their workflow, we are now making Fluxiom available as an application in the Chrome Web Store.

Fluxiom will be unavailable for around 60 minutes on Sunday, February 6, 2011, 9:15am GMT (view in your timezone) for system maintenance. Thanks for your patience while we continue to improve fluxiom for you. Be the first to read about updates, announcements and system status over at our twitter stream.

Update, February 6: Fluxiom is up and running again. Thanks for your patience!

Two finger scrolling on the iPad (or iPhone)

An increasing number of Fluxiom users are accessing their account from an iPad or an iPhone. We’d like to share a quick solution for the one gesture that has been puzzling some of you, namely scrolling.