Feedback Friday - 4/18
Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:10PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: Member Education, AOL Desktop for Mac
I hope you're enjoying the sunny weather (nice in N. Virginia!) and trying out the new Beta 14 release of AOL Desktop for Mac. We've received a lot of feedback this week and I want to jump right in.
Question 1 - I would like to sort by last name or company
Answer: Beta testers have commented that they would like to organize their AOL Address Book contacts by other sort orders. We have captured that request and it's on our enhancement list. Our goal with AOL Desktop for Mac 1.0 is to get the foundation in place for additional features and products in the future. As we wrap up AOL Desktop for Mac 1.0, AOL Beta Test users will get information on how to stay in the AOL Mac beta community and continue to get information on new betas.
Question 2 - Can I add 'Write Mail' icon to my toolbar? Answer: Yes. We have added a whole bunch of your favorite AOL web sites and functions that some of you would like to have on the toolbar. You can add Write Mail to your toolbar by doing the following:
2. Go to View>Customize AOL Toolbar...
3. You will see the customize sheet (below) appear. All you have to do is drag any icon to the toolbar and you'll see the other icons make room for the newest member of the toolbar family. If you want to go back to the factory defaults, just drag the complete set (at the bottom of the customize sheet) to the top.
Question 3 - What's going on with AOL Chat?As we have blogged about before, AOL is moving from the traditional chat rooms to AIM Chat. AIM Chat opens up all new chat functions - audio/video chat (if you have an attached/built-in iSight camera). User created chat rooms are available or you can join in on one of the many chat rooms in the new AIM Chat directory. It's going to take some time until all the old chat rooms are moved over (AIM Chat is in public beta), but we feel the experience will be greatly improved over the traditional chat.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. I cannot use this piece of trash. When I try to open any window I get a message like the one below.
AOL Desktop cannot open the page “http://news.aol.com/_cqr/portal_check?portalSiteState=OrigUrl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnews.aol.com%252F”.
The error was: “too many HTTP redirects” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1007)
I can not use this and deleted the old version. What should I do?
Posted at 7:50PM on May 23rd 2008 by jms062241
2. looks very good
Posted at 1:47PM on Jun 11th 2008 by Oscar Ferletic