We have been extremely busy at OfficeDrop (to say the least), and our latest release has a lot of very exciting features. I will do a quick overview of those features here, but some of them are involved enough to deserve their own post. I will be covering each feature in-depth during the coming weeks.

This release is a gigantic step towards our vision of “Ubiquitous Capture”. We want our users to be able to capture information in any form, in any manner and make it accessible anywhere, anytime.

Without further ado, these are the highlights of this release:

1. Support for more document formats: Thus far we supported only PDF documents for upload, but as of now, we support a lot of additional file formats. All files in the following formats are made searchable and viewable using the same awesome viewer that you have all come to love:
   • .doc – Microsoft Word (Office 2003)
   • .ppt – Microsoft Powerpoint (Office 2003)
   • .xls – Microsoft Excel (Office 2003)
   • .jpeg – JPEG format (common enough for me to not bother with esoteric acronym)
   • .png – Portable Network Graphics
   • .tiff – Tagged Image File Format
   • .bmp – Bitmap files
2. Email documents to OfficeDrop: In addition to uploading files using pixily.com you may now just send an email (with attachments of any of the file formats that we support). If your user id with pixily is jimorganizer, your pixily mail id will be jimorganizer@pixilymail.com. So go ahead, forward invoices, receipts and statements that you receive and cc: your pixily mail id for future reference. In addition to emailing from your email client, you may also use this feature to email documents to us directly from multi-function scanners. Scan It, Mail It, Find it! It can’t get any easier than that.
3. Give the gift of OfficeDrop: If you know someone that has everything (literally or figuratively , a OfficeDrop subscription will be the perfect choice for them. What better way to support the “I need to be more organized” New Year resolutions of your near and dear, than by getting them started with a OfficeDrop account. And what’s more you get 1 month free for giving the gift of OfficeDrop. Visit http://www.officedrop.com/gift for details.
4. What’s in a name?: You may now name and rename all your documents stored with OfficeDrop (this includes both scanned documents and emailed documents). From the document viewer page, click on the “Document Name” section (surprise!!) to name and rename. And of course, document names are searchable too. Here is a screenshot showing how a new tab has been added to the search results page for document name search hits.
   
5. Sort or not?: There are now two additional ways to sort any given list of snippets. We have added the ability to sort by most viewed documents and also recently viewed documents. Comes in handy when you want to quickly get at a recently viewed document or a favorite document that you keep accessing time and again.
   

In addition to the above features, we have also upgraded our Multi-file uploader to provide support for Adobe Flash v 10.

Did you find your wishlist of features addressed here? Anything you find missing? As always, we are listening.

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