{"id":28,"date":"2008-05-11T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flospace.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-05-11T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:15:46","slug":"accepting-beta-testers-for-floprompter-with-mirrored-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flospace.com\/blog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Accepting Beta-Testers for FloPrompter with Mirrored Text!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, folks!<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a long, hard technical road to figure out how to make the Mirrored Text feature work on FloPrompter.  We&#8217;ve been focused on this trying to figure out how to implement this feature for, well, quite awhile! And the good news is that we&#8217;ve finally hit upon a solution that works great.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick recap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When we created FloPrompter, we set about trying to make the best software teleprompter on the market &#8212; and at an <strong>affordable price point.<\/strong> Considering that we&#8217;re now in the 21st Century, it was key for the product to support <strong>richly formatted text.<\/strong> (Why don&#8217;t those other products support bold, italics, bullets, and color??) Naturally, it had to support <strong>smooth scrolling. <\/strong>It was the first and only software teleprompter to innovate tabbed pages to help our customers organize their programs into <strong>&#8220;broadcast segments.&#8221;<\/strong> We even introduced <strong>spell checking<\/strong> and a <strong>thesaurus<\/strong>, features unheard of for this price point. But perhaps most importantly, we wanted it to support <strong>reversed text<\/strong> so our customers could reflect the text off a mirrored surface &#8212; a key feature for professional video studios.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that we were able to achieve all of those features last year &#8212; except mirrored text. Mirrored text has proven quite a little technical challenge. But we said, bring it on! We like a good challenge, and we&#8217;ll figure it out!<\/p>\n<p>And figure it out, we did!<\/p>\n<p>Not on the first try. Nor the second. But don&#8217;t they say that the <strong>third time&#8217;s the charm<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>So we found a solution which offers very good performance for mirrored text. But just to make sure it works well out there in the world beyond the confines of our test computers, we&#8217;d like to solicit a few brave souls to be <strong>beta testers<\/strong>.  In appreciation for their help, all beta testers will receive <strong>discounts <\/strong>off future purchases of FloSpace FloPrompter. One lucky  beta tester will receive a coupon for a <strong>free license!<\/strong> Plus, we have a few FloSpace t-shirts knocking around the office, so beta testers will also be offered a <strong>free t-shirt<\/strong> (from the remaining stock).<\/p>\n<p>So if you would like to be considered for the <strong>FloSpace FloPrompter mirrored text beta program,<\/strong> here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Send an email to <a href=\"mailto:sales@flospace.com?subject=FloPrompter%20Mirrored%20Text%20Beta%20Program\">sales@flospace.com<\/a>. Clearly state in the Subject line: <strong>FloPrompter Mirrored Text Beta Program<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the body of the message, tell us <strong>your computer&#8217;s make and model number,<\/strong> and which version of <strong>Microsoft Windows<\/strong> it runs. For example: <em>&#8220;My computer is a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop running Windows XP.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tell us whether you have <strong>administrator rights<\/strong> on your computer. For example, <em>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to install the beta on a computer in our school&#8217;s computer lab. Students cannot install software, but I have admin rights and can install it.&#8221;<\/em> Another example might be, <em>&#8220;Um, this is my personal computer. I don&#8217;t know what admin rights are, but I can install software my own software.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>And don&#8217;t forget to tell us <strong>why you want to join the beta program<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deadline <\/strong>for submissions: Friday, May 16, 2008, at midnight.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Send us your email today because space in the beta program is <em><strong>limited!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(And by the way, sending us an email won&#8217;t put you on any sort of spam list. <a href=\"http:\/\/flospace.com\/privacy.htm\" title=\"FloSpace Privacy Policy\" target=\"_blank\">We don&#8217;t share email addresses<\/a>, and we rarely send out product newsletters. I think we sent out 1 newsletter in 2007. I doubt that we&#8217;ll send any out in 2008, either, except to those folks who explicitly requested to be notified when the mirrored text feature was ready.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, folks! Well, it&#8217;s been a long, hard technical road to figure out how to make the Mirrored Text feature work on FloPrompter. We&#8217;ve been focused on this trying to figure out how to implement this feature for, well, quite awhile! 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