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Dear customers and friends of EQL Data,

It's been a little while since we've posted up any informational bulletins, so I'm taking the time to email you a bit of "what's what." As some of you may have noticed, our server has been rebooted a few times late at night recently - this is because we've been working behind the scenes to mold our software into a slick machine.

October has been pretty heavy on the changes so far, and particularly if you use Geosync and you've installed the newest plugin from the Download link on http://eqldata.com (it should show up in your Control Panel's "Add/Remove Programs" listing as "EQL Access Plugin v1.9.6ap"), you can see the following:

• greatly improved support for synchronizing objects with special characters (slashes, question marks, etc.) in their names. Some of you had some trouble with this, and this is mostly resolved, though we're putting the finishing touches on a few more quirks.
• IP address logging for every change made via OnWeb or Geosync.
• Web links embedded in your OnWeb applications opening up in a new window of your browser, rather than within the OnWeb Flash app itself.
• no more strange errors accessing your database after the end of an OnWeb session or a successful Geosync.
• better mouse focus using OnWeb in Internet Explorer; you shouldn't need so much clicking inside the Flash applet to retain keyboard focus now.
• gradual disappearance of the mysterious "Print Server has died" messages in OnWeb, which turned out to be a logging error and not, in fact, anything wrong with the print servers.
• speedup in Geosync synchronizing times.
• speedup in OnWeb master database regeneration times.
• more databases output correctly (without our intervention) when Geosyncing them to the OnWeb servers for the first time. Notably, databases with custom command bars now show up, and we've fixed up a lot of glitches people had with Queries and Forms in Access 2003 or
• Thanks for your bug reports!
• fewer glitches when using "Web View" to examine your version history and table structures known to the EQL servers, also more descriptive warnings if something unexpected happened and the software was confused.
• credit card billing.

I hope that the above encourages all of our Geosync users to upgrade to our newest plugin if you're having any trouble.

Beyond this, we still have many of your suggestions to work on, and we're doing what we can to implement them quickly, without compromising the software or causing any regressions. Please keep your ideas and reports of any bugs you find coming, though! If we get ideas or find bugs which are easy to implement/fix or immediately useful to everyone, we can get started right away!

A quick note, also: eqldata.com will be getting a facelift soon, and we'd like to collect some customer testimonials from those of you who use Geosync or OnWeb on a regular basis to put up on the new site. I hope none of you will mind my approaching you in the next week or so with such a request.

Lastly, I wanted to thank you all for using EQL and, for helping us make it better - all your feedback counts.

You can look forward to more goodies in the future,

Luke @ EQL