http://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxThe rss feed of ArtfulBits company news.http://www.artfulbits.com/images/ab_logo_90_53.gifhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx9053ArtfulBits News Channelen-usArtfulBits © 2005-2015, All rights reserved.webmaster@artfulbits.com (Webmaster)60ArtfulBits Custom Codehttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l1 ArtfulBits is introducing Carmon app, a new companion application for the car drivers, developed by our Android team. ]]> [http://www.artfulbits.com/images/news/Carmon_at_car.png] Carmon App is a professional measurement and displaying tool for all models of VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda starting from 2001. Carmon provides an access to over 70 different values in real time, like acceleration, CO² emissions, tire temperature, battery charge level and etc. The data acquisition rate is a factor of 1000 higher than that of an OBD adapter, because all measured values are read out directly from the engine CAN bus of the vehicle, stored and sent via Bluetooth to the APP. Visit ArtfulBits Blog for the full article! ]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l2 There will always be an unspoken expectation that a software developer should participate, at least on some level, as a business consultant! ]]> Recently we had a customer, a small start-up enterprise with the idea to penetrate the market of paleo dishes recipes. In ArtfulBits, we decided that our approach should not be indifferent to the business model of the software that we develop for our clients. We agreed on the simple thesis: “we’ll be advising our clients to the extent they think our advice is valuable for them”. One of the marketing tools we use, market positioning diagram, is a tool that can greatly benefit IT entrepreneurs. With the hundred of thousands of mobile application now available on Google Play and Apple Store, there is a very little chance that the brilliant idea one may be stiken with will find an empty nishe market. Therefore, deep and qualified analysis is required in order to make your software distinctive and valuable. How to perform market positioning analyis?: Gather information about ALL competitors Identify the the distinctive categories and group categories accordingly (examples of categories: age group, price range and etc.) Map applications on coordinate system Decide which market segment you'd like to penetrate Choose the best strategy, so that to be better that your competitors in the same segment The business model behind the requirements was explained by the customer very little, as always. However, with the simple tools like market positioning analysis and mapping, ArtfulBits is able to become the best advisor! Visit ArtfulBits Blog for the full article! ]]>Mon, 25 May 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l3 Notwithstanding steeper constraints of the construction industry, ArtfulBits has managed to help their customers to penetrate the market with the new iOS application. ]]> A mobile application that is going to be used in the midst of the maintenance or repair activities should be convinient and useful enough in order to be helpful, but at the same time to be convinient in these settings. ArtfulBits has gained a tremendous experience in building enterprise level application. Therefore, we step forward with the solution that was released recently as Renoville iOS application. Here is how Renoville can help: Find stores in the nearby area, including lighting, flooring, furniture and many more Connect with qualified professionals Make an informed decision with whom to partner based on a rating system Read More ]]>Fri, 15 May 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l4 ArtfulBits is glad to announce about the new and even more powerful version! New filtering and sorting options, ramified categorization and other new features! ]]> Shopping Cart Web Part is a great solution for very different types of businesses. It can be used in very different contexts, starting from the most obvious, like electronic commerce, up to the non-profit organizations trying to handle their inventory. Our team is constantly working on improving Shopping Cart. And, thanks to your comments and feedback we were able to provide a lot of new features during the last 6 months. Main new features: Added ordering by Price Added main view filter and sorting by the name and description along with the alphabetical sorting Added second level of categorization (requires new list and columns) Added option to show/hide product in the list (requires new list columns) Added product desc/image to "My Orders" tab (new orders only) "Order Now" form template can now contain dropdown fields Shopping Cart Details ]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l5 Our SharePoint team is almost ready to release a new and powerful solution for direct communication with the SharePoint users on their iOS and Android mobile devices. ]]> Push Message Web Part is a new and powerful solution for direct communication with the SharePoint users on their iOS and Android mobile devices. Mobile devices have become a necessary target for online marketing and successful team collaboration. You can deliver news and get the feedbacks from your users exponentially faster if you reach them on the mobile devices. And today our crew has released a new SharePoint tool for connecting your SharePoint site users with their mobile devices. Our Push Message Web Part is full-cycle solution that contains every part necessary for reaching your SharePoint users on their mobile devices. It contains SharePoint web part itself, iOS and Android SDK for your application that will enable your application to communicate with Push Web Part, web service that will actually send data back and forth, and certainly an extensive and easy to understand documentation for each part. Documentation contains extensive information on deployment of the web part, iOS and Android SDK, web service and its usage and how to establish the connection between all parts. The only part that we do not provide in this cycle is certainly your own mobile application. We presume that you have it already. Though, if you don’t have it yet, but would like to communicate with the users of your SharePoint site via their mobile devices, please, contact us to get the advises on the development. We specialize not only in SharePoint, but also in all major mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. If you need our advice for the development of the mobile application , please, send us a request to sales@artfulbits.com . We will be glad to talk with you on this matter. If you already have the mobile application, Push Message Web Part will certainly become your greatest assistant. Just imagine what you can do with it - inform your customers about your new products, send messages to your team, schedule marketing campaign notifications, congratulate your staff and much more! And, remember, that our SharePoint team is looking forward to hear from you! Your feedback, queries and comments are extremely valuable for us. So, please, shoot us an email to sales@artfulbits.com or chat with our live support. ]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l6 You can get a 20% DISCOUNT for any purchase from ArtfulBits at the period since Black Friday to Cyber Monday this year! ]]> ArtfulBits announces special holiday on-sale opportunities for your favorite SharePoint components and web parts, or aiCharts.Beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET on Black Friday (November 28) and continuing through 9:00 p.m. on Monday, December 1, all visitors can get and use a 20% discount, after completing online form . ]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l7 SharePoint sites are also doing online marketing, even though it was told many times that the main strength of SharePoint is document management and team collaboration! ]]> Today our team has released a new version of the wonderful solution for small and mid-size retailing companies on SharePoint. Frequently, small and mid-sized companies can’t afford the full-scale SharePoint e-Commerce solutions. This is when Shopping Cart from ArtfulBits can help. ArtfulBits Shopping Cart provides a whole range of useful capabilities for marketeers for a reasonable price! Moreover, our team is eager to enhance this solution in order to make it even more scalable. We are looking forward to receiving your feedbacks, and we promise to review them all. After that we’ll gather the most valuable and include them in our development list. If you had offered the feature that was further developed by our team, we promise to provide you with absolutely free update of our Shopping Cart. And even if your suggestions wasn’t yet developed, you’ll get a 10% discount if you have just offered an idea of further development or improvement. IDEAS MATTER! You can send us your ideas to support@artfulbits.com , or leave your suggestion in this FORM . Now, shopping Cart provides the following capabilities: “Shelves” for goods and cart view Product categorization Price for the same product can be adjusted according with the subcategories of the same product Each product contains an image, description, price, drop-down menu with the subcategories (e.g. different sizes, different colours) and etc. History of orders and resend order option Order confirmation Contact form Purchase confirmation and Email template Multilanguage support Shopping Cart Details With the help of the whole community we will make SharePoint closer for small and mid-sized retailers! ]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l8 Dear friends, we experienced temporary problems with our infrustructure, but succesfully survived it. ]]> Please, accept our apologies for the gaps in the communication. Our support is again available, and you can contact us via support@artfulbits.com or sales@artfulbits.com. Live chat is also available! ]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:44:50 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l9 ArtfulBits Blog is a powerful solution that complements the standard SharePoint blog functionality by the possibility to add a video, a zoomable image, tags for the blog entries, article categorization and tags cloud, filtering the entries by the category or tag, attractive comments system. ]]> The features that it provides will greatly benefit both - an author and a reader: Support of categorization and tagging for blog entries Comments system Use of SharePoint profile service to display commenter’s profile picture Configurable tag cloud Possibility of adding video/zoomable image to blog entry view & preview Rich blog entry body text editor Rich pagination “Read more/less” & “Show more comments” blog entry preview functionality Filtering by category/tag Archive page Links page Configurable menu Configurable global settings Read more ]]>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l10 ArtfulBits Shopping Cart Web Part is an effective tool for selling products on your website. While most solutions available on the market offer complex and extremely packed solutions, our team made a decision to come out with a simple tool that provides a commonly used set of functionalities: cart view, goods shelves, and information about products, categories of products, variations of the same product by size or other category with the possibility to filter and preview picture. Also a history of purchases is kept in the cart. This modules can be easily enhanced and is an ideal solution for small business, as it will quickly enables you to start selling on you site. Also it is very straightforward when it comes to configuration and is intuitively understandable. ]]> The list of Shopping Cart Web Part features: Product categorization Product image zooming Filtering products by categories History of purchase Choice of the product’s size, subcategory Basic information about product (price, description, image) Email purchase confirmation Goods Shelves Cart view Ajax based Language pack support (desired localization can be added by request) Read more ]]>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l11 The main purpose of Follow-Up Column component is item flagging with due date option (messages, meeting request, tasks, events, etc). Follow-Up Column’s due date flags are similar to the corresponding Microsoft Outlook functionality. These features help to release you from the necessity of keeping in mind routine questions like “What do I have to accomplish today” and “What are the main task in the next few weeks”. With the new 2.0 version our team has provided support of SharePoint 2013 and new localizations for two more international languages: German and Russian. ]]> The most prominent features of ArtfulBits Follow-Up column are the following: Set flag with due date from predefined list: Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week or Custom Different options of follow-up visualization using combinations of flag, text and date Support of sorting and filtering features Support of different calendars (Gregorian, Japanese Emperor Era, Korean Tangun Era, Hijri, etc.) Supported Datasheet view Read more ]]>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:00:00 GMTSat, 20 Jun 2015 09:44:50 GMTSat, 20 Jun 2015 09:44:50 GMT