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Marketcircle releases Daylite 4
Marketcircle's Daylite is a popular business productivity management application for both the Mac and iOS. After spending some time on its mobile apps, the company is back with a new version of Daylite for the Mac. According to its announcement blog post, Daylite 4 is a complete overhaul of the app to include those features customers felt were most important. These features include the ability to view family or personal calendars inside Daylite, support for external meeting invites, drag-and-drop re-ordering of tasks and more. A full list of new features can be found on Marketcircle's What's New page. The UI has been streamlined and the learning curve reduced with this newest version. As a result, some features like reports and Billings Pro Integration were removed. You can view the list of removed features on Daylite's "Before you upgrade" webpage. Some features will return in future versions, but you should consult the removal list before deciding to upgrade. You can purchase a self-serve version of Daylite 4 for US$279 from Marketcircle's website. Editor's Note: A detailed review of Daylite 4 by GigaOM's Weldon Dodd can be found here.
Daylite Touch for iPad brings project management to your fingertips
The folks at Marketcircle have released Daylite Touch for the iPad, which joins the iPhone and desktop versions to further extend the productivity solution across Apple's hardware. You can read this blog post from Marketcircle about the app. Much more than a task tracker, Daylite offers complete project management for individuals and large companies alike. We've been beta testing the iPad app for a while now, and we are glad to share our experiences with you. Please note that Daylite 3.13, also available today, is required to run Daylite Touch 1.6. Some other good news from Marketcircle is that they've changed the licensing structure. Now it's based on a per-user basis (instead of per device), as customers often use more than one iOS device. Getting started As we said, Daylite includes everything you want: projects and tasks, contact management, a calendar, leads (they call them "Opportunities") and more. You can use it as an individual, but its power becomes obvious when managing a team. The iPhone app added portability, allowing workers in the field to access information in a shared database via Daylite Server. Since changes made on the iPhone are synchronized in real time with the desktop version, remote workers and office-bound supervisors can stay on the same page. It works quite well. So why add the iPad? %Gallery-108581%
Marketcircle announces Billings Pro, needs beta testers
Marketcircle, the Canadian software firm that brought you Daylite, Daylite Touch, Billings, and Billings Touch has just announced the next generation of their time-tracking and billing solution. Billings Pro takes advantage of many of the features built into other Marketcircle products and takes Billings to a new level as a multi-user application. The new application will include a server piece (like Daylite), a way to use the application offline and then sync to the server (once again built upon Daylite), over-the-air sync (as with Daylite Touch), and Marketcircle's expertise in desktop and mobile user interfaces. The application is still in development, and beta testing won't begin for a few months yet. If you're an existing Billings user and would like to receive consideration as a possible beta tester, fill out this online form and you may hear from Marketcircle in a few months. At this time, no ship date or price has been determined for Billings Pro.
TUAW and Marketcircle team up for a Daylite / Daylite touch giveaway
The Labor Day weekend here in the US always heralds the unofficial end of summer, which means it's time to stop playing and to start getting back to productive work. Marketcircle, the makers of the Daylite Productivity Suite and the companion Daylite Touch app for iPhone and iPod touch, has combined forces with TUAW to help you get out of your summer sloth! Whether you're a student or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, the Daylite Productivity Suite (click here for a TUAW review) is a powerful tool for keeping track of your calendar, your contacts, projects, emails, and just about everything else in your life. Coupled with Daylite touch for mobile access, you'll get your priorities straight in no time at all. Marketcircle and TUAW want to give away copies of the Daylite Productivity Suite to two lucky TUAW readers, each with a companion one-year license for Daylite touch. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below describing your top organizational priority. Here's the requisite legal jargon: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and to legal residents of Canada (excluding Quebec), who are 18 and older. To enter leave a comment below describing your top organizational priority. The comment must be left before September 7, 2009, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Two winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: One copy each of Daylite Productivity Suite and a one-year license for Daylite touch. Click Here for complete Official Rules. As always, keep visiting TUAW for more exciting giveaways!
TUAW review: Daylite 3.9, Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch
Marketcircle's Daylite is a popular business productivity management application for the Mac platform, and it was recently updated to version 3.9. While this sounds like it might have been just another version upgrade, it was actually a major update to Daylite. Coinciding with the release of Daylite 3.9, Marketcircle also released Daylite Server and Daylite Touch, two new components that bring the power of Daylite to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms.We'll be talking with Marketcircle CEO Alykhan Jetha (AKA A.J.) this Sunday, April 19th, at 10 PM EDT on the TUAW Talkcast, so be sure to listen in and bring any questions that you'd like to ask A.J. about Daylite.
Business productivity on the iPhone: Daylite Touch
On June 23rd an announcement was made at the Marketcircle Blog which revealed that an iPhone companion to their business productivity application, Daylite, was being developed. The news has been greeted with great enthusiasm from current Daylite users, and we got a chance to talk to Marketcircle's president, AJ, about their mobile development plans. First, for those not familiar with Daylite, it's what AJ refers to as a Business Productivity Manager. "It's more than a PIM," AJ stated, "it's more than groupware. Our premise is something called a Productivity Pyramid. The bottom layer is tasks, notes, files, meetings, urls, et cetera. The second layer is people: contacts, your companies and users. The top layer is what we call objectives, which is projects and opportunities." Daylite is geared towards helping small business -- ranging from one to fifty people -- move forward. Very recently, Marketcircle released a new version of Daylite which integrates with the iWork suite. Daylite can also integrate with Mail.app and supports Sync Services for iCal and Address Book syncing. The developers at Marketcircle were receiving constant requests for mobile applications for Palm, Blackberry, etc. AJ says that, at that point, the richness of data provided by Daylite didn't sync well with the available platforms. "And no offense to those platforms," he went on, "but they're quite ugly." All of that was "until we got the iPhone."
