Today Basecamp is phasing out the support for Internet Explorer 6. We have some good news for IE 6 users (estimated at about 30%). We just released a Basecamp to 5pm import feature, that will let you move your data into 5pm in no time (no matter what browser you use). Check our website for more details. TGIF.

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5pm Affiliates can now track their numbers in real time through our website. Our Affiliate Program allows you to earn 50% of the first month’s payment for any new client that you refer to us. You can find more details here.

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Some RSS readers don’t support RSS feed authentication. This is why we changed 5pm RSS feed links into authentication-less format. Now you can receive updates about your 5pm projects and tasks in Google Reader, MS Outlook, etc.

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A big percent of our customers are creative agencies. Today, the popular online portal for creatives all around the world – CreativePro.com – posted a review of 5pm.

Check their website to read the article.

The interactive Timeline is one of the areas in our application that we plan to expand considerably. The latest feature we just added is the Daily Wide, Weekly and Monthly views. We also added a quick button for unfolding/folding all projects at once.

More updates are coming out soon…

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Following up on our post about 5pm supporting Firefox 3, we did run a couple of tests and here are the results:

We measured the relative time it takes to render the main 5pm screens. As you can see, Firefox 3 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 2 – an amazing speed improvement. So, if you are still using Firefox 2, you may consider upgrading.

Fastest, by far, is still Safari, with IE 6 and IE 7 performing about the same and still slower than the other browsers.

5pm has a very quick interface that requires less clicks and will run fast in all the supported browsers.

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .

We added a couple of new features during the past weeks:

• Authentication-less iCalendar synchronization – now you can use it with Google Calendar. Check this Help section for details and take advantage of this powerful combination.
• Import new user profiles directly from your Google Gmail account.
• Add multiple user profiles at once – a quick way to set up your whole team in 5pm.
• Screen auto-refresh – no need to manually reload the screen anymore in order to see what changes have been done by other team members (very useful when running 5pm on a second screen in a dual-monitor configuration).

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We just added SSL support to 5pm. Now you can login to your 5pm account through a secure page or even access all your data through SSL (this option has to be turned on through your Settings).

SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. You can read more about it here.

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If you are dealing with long messages in 5pm, this feature will be very helpful for you. Compact View lets you shrink the Activity panel content, compressing each message into a single line.

You can collapse/expand each message separately or collapse them all by activating the Compact View. To access this feature click on the arrow-button in the top right corner of the panel. We also added such a button to the left panel and linked to it some common functions for quick access.

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