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This has been an eventful week here at P1Wired.  We are very excited to announce that P1Wired is now a part of StudioPlus Software.  Together, our two companies share over 30 years of experience building software applications for the professional photographic industry.  Now, we’re going to use that combined expertise to build exciting new solutions just for you.

Don’t worry, if you’re a current P1Wired user, your software will continue to be supported.  We’re all still here ready and willing to help you with any needs you may have.  In addition, we look forward to combining the expertise of both companies to deliver new product innovations in the near future.  We’re committed to developing the very best solutions for business management, digital workflow, and online solutions to help all clients build a very successful and profitable business.

Make sure you check our FAQ page regarding the acquisition, and keep checking our blog for future updates down the road!  Exciting times!

With the latest release of P1Wired, the development team has put a lot of focus on the Calendar and Appointment section. In addition to this, they have also added some modifications to the Workflow area of the application. They added a Workflow button on the main tool bar which gives you quick access to all workflow and you can easily see the status of all open workflow. Employee’s can now be assigned to workflow so you can send an email to the employee when they are assigned work, this ensures they will always be up to date on their assigned tasks.

P1Wired now supports date and phone number formatting, so no matter what format you like or need, P1Wired will format to your specifications. Simply enter whole numbers into the field and P1Wired will do the rest.

The calendar also has some new changes. You can now enter the name of the employee that is adding the appointment, you can mark the appointment confirmed and which employee confirmed it.

The daily, weekly and monthly calendar views have also been updated with a new look. These views will now display the appointment type, the client name, the start and end time of the appointment and the staff member that added the appointment to the schedule.

You can also view individual calendars or multiple calendars by the simple click of a button. Previously, all appointments were displayed on individual calendars and you could only view one calendar at a time. Now, in the daily view, you can view multiple calendars at one time. You can also choose to view all appointments for multiple calendars in a single view. This gives you a comprehensive look at a day, week or month.

We have also added new ways to find a client in P1Wired. Newly added are phone number, email, a client secondary name, reference number, and customer number to name a few. You can search for your clients using any of this information.

Amongst all of these new changes, a new Z reported has been added to provide you with peace of mind. Now your payment transactions can be printed on one report which gives you tight cash control. Credit card swiping of transactions is now supported, providing less room for error when entering information and making the credit card processing interface more seamless. The Contract now prints as a PDF, the Google Calendar interface has been enhanced, text descriptions have been added to the Add buttons and the comments in the appointment window have been increased in size.

All these enhancements will be available in your studio’s site by the end of the week August 21, 2010.

P1Wired in its most recent release included some new significant features to the software. P1Wired also included some new features which are Nice-to-Haves and improve a photographer’s workflow. Here is a listing of some of those new features.

1. In the Client Access feature a new button was added to the Customer form. The new button allows you see what your customer sees without logging in. Click the View Client Access button and the customer’s proposal is displayed allowing you to review and validate the proposal. This short cut is a great way to review the proposal before the customer does.

2. P1Wired increased the size of the user defined message on the invoice. The increased message capacity allows for a more detailed entry for those situations with a lot of information.

3. P1Wired has simplified the process of adding price breaks to products. A photographer can set up the price break for the product type and then add it to the specified product using the product calculator.

4. All outgoing emailing done in P1Wired supports email attachments both images and pdfs. Additionally, all email is time stamped so that there is a record.

P1Wired will finish up tomorrow with the balance of the Nice-to-Have features that continue to make it Simple and Easy to use. P1Wired is looking to deliver a new release in July — about 4 weeks away.

Have you seen the new Photoshop CS5, looks like it is the most powerful version that’s been released.

How about that new Content Aware Fill, it is just amazing. I had a car I needed to remove from an image. I just created a selection using the Lasso around the car and then hit the delete key. You are then presented with a window that lets you select “Content Aware Fill”, and then press OK. Photoshop was able to examine the area around the selection, remove the object and replace it with similar textures. It wasn’t 100% perfect but it was a good start. A feature like this will be a great time saver.

Adobe has certainly been busy with this release.

MailChimp has recently integrated with Flickr so that you can upload images from Flickr and use them in your email marketing campaigns. MailChimp did a nice job explaining the integration in their blog so check it out and see if the integration makes sense for your business. At a 30,000 ft. level the process is easy and quick:

1. Go to the gallery icon in the editor’s toolbar to add images
2. Authorize MailChimp to access you Flickr account
3. Click import
4. Add imported images to your email campaign

The Flickr integration with MailChimp and the MailChimp integration with P1Wired allows you to quickly and easily create an email marketing campaign targeting customers and/or prospects and enhance the email with your own images.