The fanatastic Hotline Communications have introduced their Hotline Connect 1.5 package this week and will be demonstrating the new product this week at the Spring Internet World in Los Angeles, CA.
First covered way back in issue 055, the Hotline Connect suite, comprised of the Client and Server, enables individuals to create, build and maintain their own Internet communities instantly. It turns any desktop computer into a server, enabling the user to host his or her own news center and forum for chat and conferencing.
The product can be used on its own or in conjunction with other Internet applications like the Web, providing a package for complete, integrated Internet communication. It gives the user real-time and simultaneous messaging, chat and conferencing; resumable file transfer and file viewing; news board reading and posting, and community- list searching and filtering. It has low system requirements and runs identically on Windows and Mac platforms for effective business, academic and personal collaboration.
Hotline Connect 1.5 incorporates all the features of previous versions and introduces several new capabilities for expanded and enhanced functionality. Highlighted new features include a dynamic toolbar, which allows server administrators to enabled and disabled functions like upload, download, delete and disconnect. It also reveals tool tips and displays the current location and active tasks. Threaded news posts are arranged into categories, enabling server administrators to maintain threaded discussion groups. The new Hotline also allows users to preview text and image files such as bmp, pict, jpegs. Users can now also download an entire directory for faster downloads.
The Hotline Client version 1.5 can be downloaded from Hotline’s Web site as of yesterday [Thursday], so come join the revolution.
