Below is the announcement I

Below is the
announcement I received from NewsGator developer Greg Reinacker’s <a
href=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/”>Weblog. The cool
thing is, I’m posting this directly from Outlook using NewsGator 1.2 – pictures too!. It’s almost as easy as
forwarding an email. Great work, Greg!


NewsGator 1.2 has been released!  I won’t
duplicate the release announcements…here are the important links:

<a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/news/archive.aspx?post=10
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/news/archive.aspx?post=10″>Announcement /
Change List

<a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/news/archive.aspx?post=11
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/news/archive.aspx?post=11″>Press
Release

<a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/downloads.aspx
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/downloads.aspx”>Downloads

<a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/default.aspx
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/default.aspx”>Plug-in
information

<a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/developer.aspx
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/developer.aspx”>Plug-in developer
information

 

Posting support is <a
title=http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/default.aspx
href=”http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/default.aspx”>available today
for:

Here are some screen shots of some of the
visual items that have changed. This is only a small subset of the
feature set…and we’re only highlighting changes since 1.1.

 

The NewsGator menu has moved to the
toolbar:

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel7.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

New post items have been added to the
menu…

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel1.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

And of course new configuration
options:

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel2.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

Outlook auto-preview, which works well
with NewsGator, was always hampered by the links at the top of every post,
which would fill up most of the auto-preview. There is now an option to
move the links, for “clean” auto-preview:

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel3.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

Prior to Outlook 2003, it was unfortunate
in that you could never see the URL that a link was going to open; NewsGator
1.2 adds tooltips to most links:

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel6.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

If you like the NewsPage, you’ll like it
even more with inline post excerpts:

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel4.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

And also on the NewsPage, you can now read
all posts from the “unread posts” section by expanding each
feed…

<img alt="" hspace=0
src=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/postimages/ng12rel5.gif&#8221;
align=baseline border=0>

Enjoy! We look forward to your feedback
and comments.

[<a
href=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=593″>Greg
Reinacker’s Weblog]