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Sharing Image Galleries outside of Glasnost

Having all your images in a gallery on Glasnost is really useful for many people. But sometimes you want to share a gallery with people who are not Glasnost users.
Well, now you can.
If you go to the images module and hover your mouse over a gallery thumbnail you’ll now see an option to ‘Share’. [...]

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Sharing Documents outside of Glasnost

Sometimes you want to quickly share a document with someone who is not a user of your Glasnost system. Or perhaps a group of people.
But you do not want to download the document and then send it on via email.
And sometimes you want to password protect the document.
Or make it available only for a [...]

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Don’t read the manual!

There are a few hidden features in the Glasnost interface that make it easier to view information, especially if you have limited screen space.
We use them day in day out but you may not know they exist.
So, instead of boring you with dull text explaining do this, do that…. here is a very [...]

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What would Einstein do?

ONE OF Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled.
“No,” Einstein answered. “Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?”
Yesterday I read a tweet asking how to [...]

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Simple solutions to tricky problems: No1

In the Telegraph today is an article entitled ‘Commuters face worse overcrowding’. It describes how:
“Overcrowding on Britain’s railways is going to get “substantially worse”, an influential committee of MPs has said.” And goes on to say “In a highly critical report, the Public Accounts Committee warned that the Government and rail industry would fail [...]

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Our new strapline

In the spirit of ‘it does what it says on the tin’ we’ve tried to encapsulate the ‘point’ of Glasnost.
Have we succeeded? What do you think?

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Glasnost21 iPhone App V2

We are delighted to announce that Version 2 of the Glasnost21 iPhone App is now available for download.
What’s new in this version?
Full Project details – Comments, Tasks and Documents. Access to all Image Galleries
In short, this is a major upgrade and gives you access to pretty much all you need from Glasnost – on [...]

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The Glasnost21 iPhone App is now available

We are delighted to announce that Version 1 of the Glasnost21 iPhone App is now available for free in the Apple AppStore.
The Glasnost21 iPhone App provides a tightly focused subset of features to subscribers of the web-based system, concentrating on contacts data, and tailored to the requirements of Glasnost21 users on the move.
The [...]

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Create Calendar bookings straight from Project Tasks

Following user requests we’ve added a really useful new feature that allows you to add an iCal notification to a project task. When you add a task you have the option of attaching an iCal file to the email that Glasnost sends out to all those assigned to the task. With this all the [...]

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Glasnost and Powwownow

As well as making full use of Skype we are also great fans of Powwownow. This service allows you to easily set up landline conference phone calls. And the real beauty is that it costs you no more than making a normal call.
Using the free version you first give Powwownow your email address and [...]

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