Hey Reframe It Users,

We’ve got interesting things brewing here in our labs. After months of collecting the necessary crystals and potions from the furthest corners of the earth we’ve finally reached a high enough wizard level to release version 1.5 of the Reframe It margin! This new version is packed with plenty of appetite whetting features and some new visuals I am sure you are going to dig.

For starters the color scheme has been completely changed. We feel like blue is out and white is in. Hopefully this will make things seem less cluttered to you, the user, and enhance your margin experience to make you feel like you’re surfing the Internet of the future. When highlighting text and when scrolling to referenced text in the margin you will notice increased speed and less lag. This means increase load time for your comments, a smoother interface, and stronger comments overall (yeah we’ve had ‘em in the weight room, and no, we don’t use steroids, sorry).

We have also included an Auto complete feature at the bottom of the margin. You will notice the text box with the Share Comment option tab set to open. This tab lets you know how many groups you’re sharing with, how many friends, how many e-mails (contacts), etc. By clicking the blue button underneath the text box you can view the old fashioned list option that shows every possible avenue available for you to share your comments. Enough with the nitty gritty stuff already; let’s get to Auto complete. By typing just a couple letters in the text box, lets say F-a-c for instance, Auto complete will automatically read your mind through ESP and complete the rest of the sharing avenue for you, in this case: Facebook.

Besides those amazing features we even threw in a couple more goodies for you. The new Reframe It margin now has spell check (I knew you wanted it, well at least I need it), cut/paste, and comments shared to social networks (Facebook & Twitter) will share directly to your wall or tweet stream - never giving you nasty pop up windows asking you those annoying “are you sure you want to share” questions!

Not only did we give you all of those great in-front-of-the-screen features we also took care of some behind the scenes stuff too so that Reframe It is faster for you, the ever important commentator. Reframe It can share to MetaWeblog (Wordpress & Moveable Type) so that all of you bloggers can integrate easily with Reframe It. Also any of the error and notification messages you’ve seen in the past will now be popping up from the bottom of the margin in tiny collapsible windows within the margin, all to enhance your browsing experience.

Take the margin for a test spin, see how it works, but more importantly mark the internet up with your voice! After all, that’s what this is all about, isn’t it?

Best,

The Reframe It Team