We would like to apologise for yesterdays unscheduled downtime. Task|Mate is currently hosted on a server in our office which lost connectivity to the internet yesterday due to problems at our local exchange. We’re now in the progress of moving the service to a new server outside of our office. We should have completed this move in a couple of days, as a side effect of moving to the new server you should see a significant increase in speed when using the system.

We’d like to apologise again, for any inconvenience caused by this.

Over the last two days we've seen a few errors occur while adding tasks. We've been able to reproduce this by clicking the Save button on Add Task before the task pane has fully completed loading. We're currently working on a fix for this problem, in the mean time if you just wait a couple more seconds before pushing save everything should work as expected.

If you have any other issues while using the system, please email us at: Andrew.Stewart@i-nnovate.net so that we help prevent this from occurring for other people.

Last night we uploaded time sheet support to the live server, so all Task|Mate account now have access to the new functionality.

In order to keep recording time against a task fast and easy to use we’ve implemented a simple a drag and drop interface on your dashboard. To mark a task as in progress - Simply drag a task onto “Currently Working On” section to start recording time against it. If you forget to record time against a task, then you can you can add time against a task by viewing it and selecting to “Add Time log”. There is also a new section under “My Timesheet” where you can view all your time through out the week.

We also fixed the following bugs:

• Completed Milestones no longer appear as overdue on the dashboard screen.
• Fixed the validation on editing a product.
• Fix the invalid caching of results in Internet Explorer

We hope you enjoy the new functionality.

After logging in, be sure to visit all the options under Configuration in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 26 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

We're very pleased to announce that last Friday we released 3 new features into the live Task|Mate environment. These where:
- Task Search.
- Project Notifications RSS Feeds.
- Dashboard Notification RSS Feeds.

You can see these feature in more detail in the tour section of our website and we hope you enjoy using them as much as we do.

Last night we pushed out our new website, so far I'm very excited about the new look and feel. I think you'll agree it's a lot cleaner and more professional looking than our previous version. As part of the redesign I've increased the target requirements and browsers we've tested against:

• 1024x768 Resolution
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Internet Explorer 7

As you can see we've dropped support for Internet Explorer 6(Please upgrade your really not secure running this browser) and I haven't tested in Safari. Chrome uses the same rendering as Safari, so everything should work if you have any issues in Safari please get in touch as we are supporting Safari.

Hope you enjoy the new look and feel, plus new features for Task|Mate coming very very very soon.

Here's our first experiment with screencasting, I'll aim to increase the quality of these as with time.

The screencast first shows the new Dashboard:

• Tasks assigned to that person, then filtered by project
• Display of notifcations for their tasks
• Milestone Status for there projects.

Last night the new Task|mate features past the final round of testing and have been pushed out to the live environment.

• New Faster more flexible dashboard.
• Add a task from anywhere.

Along with the new features we also rolled out a new feedback system powered by uservoice. Once your logged into Task|Mate you will see a feedback link on the right of every page, on clicking here you can request new features or report any problems you’ve encountered while using the system. If the feature you want has already been suggested by someone else, then you can also for vote for it, the more votes a suggested feature has the sooner it’s likely to be implemented into the live system.

We are really eager to hear from you, and look forward to implementing your suggestions.