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1. Agriya Loves FireShot For Firefox

   Peter on October 17th, 2010

   Tags: Developers, Firefox, fireshot, plugin, screen capture

   When you are outsourcing PHP projects like our clientèle does then the distance can have an adverse effect on the final outcome – there is nothing quite like being in the same office as your web developer and showing them exactly how you want each part of your site to function.

   Side Note: We would be delighted and actively encourage our clients to come to India to meet the developers and spend a few days working with them. We usually have several clients visiting us at any one time so you could get to meet up with other people from around the world too!

   Agriya tries to handle this problem via regular Skype chats and more recently through WebEx which allows the client to share their desktop and we can see exactly what they are seeing. However, with so many other commitments our clients sometimes find that they don’t have an hour to spare to walk through the site at a time that is convenient to them.

   We have recently come across a brand new Firefox plugin called FireShot which allows you to take a screen capture of the website and then annotate it with comments, arrows and boxes. After playing around with it for a few days we have decided that we will start recommending it to our clients so that they can make quick annotations to the website and visually give all their feedback.

   The plugin works flawlessly, simply install it (a couple of button clicks) and you are given an icon in the Firefox browser. Click the icon and it opens a new window with the website screenshot and gives a variety of tools for you to start annotating. The working area looks like this below:

   

   The Fireshot Plugin Interface

   We took a screenshot of our iSongs.fm site which uses the Volume software with a customized design (and a beautiful customized design if we do say so ourselves) and proceeded to annotate it as if we were giving proper client feedback, you can see the result below:

   

   iSongs Annotated Feedback

   There are two ways we can see this excellent screen capture software being used:

   1. Annotating the screenshot with the comments within the image
   2. Annotating the screenshot with numbers and referencing them in a Word or Excel document

   The visual nature of an annotated screenshot makes it much easier for developers to work with rather than going by page after page of written feedback, which can be misunderstood or not be clear enough on what part of the site it is referring to.

   Agriya highly recommends that all our clients and potential clients install this Firefox screen capture plugin as it will help tremendously when it comes to giving feedback.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, October 17th, 2010 at 9:58 pm and is filed under Extensions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1. Have You Ever Seen A Channel Like This?

   Peter on January 20th, 2010

   Tags: business, Channel, plugin, rayzz, sharing, video, Volume

   Great news ladies and gentleman, Version 2 of Rayzz Video Sharing is undergoing its final iteration of testing and feedback and is due for an immanent release at the end of this month (we reckon on the 27th January – but hold that date in mind, see if we can stick to our deadlines…).

   With the new version of Rayzz Video Sharing comes a name change to represent the changing business strategy that Agriya will adopt in 2010. Rayzz Video Sharing is going to be renamed to Channel, it’s just a name change, every customer who owns a copy of Rayzz Video Sharing will be able to upgrade to the new version – which is called Channel.

   The main changes in Channel are an improved admin interface as well as a completely redesigned front end. As part of our business strategy we want to make sure that all our products are compatible with one another and therefore Channel can be ‘plugged in’ to Volume and vice versa.

   The way the new setup will work is as follows:

   • Rayzz 2 (soon to be Rayzz 3) will be the ultimate public community portal with videos, music, games, blogs, photos, groups, forums etc.
   • Channel will be just be a video sharing script which allows people to view and share videos
   • Volume will just be a music sharing / radio station script for people who want to run music sites
   • A new, and as yet unnamed, piece of software will be a photo sharing platform

   So let’s say you wanted to run a music sharing site but also wanted to add videos, you don’t want Rayzz because that does more than you want and most features will go unused. So you buy Volume and Channel and simply plug one in to the other and voila! You have a music sharing site with video playing and sharing capabilities!

   I hope you begin to see where we are going with our products, maybe we’ll also make an arcade / gamers script as well.

   If you can’t wait to see the new version, new look and new name Channel worry not because for your viewing pleasure I have posted some screenshots for you below…

   
   

   

   

   
   

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 12:24 am and is filed under Channel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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