| | VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.5.0.1 | | Reviewer: garbancito.tachin |
Date: 2008-05-04, 10:47 GMT
Version: VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.5.0.1
Overall rating:  (Excellent)
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| GUI:   Features: Ease of use: Value: |  | Pros: Version 2.6 is quite nice. Kudos to VaultletSoft!
The amount of new features, usability improvements and GUI polishing that this version has compared to v2.2 (which I last reviewed) is phenomenal.
Watching this software evolve over the last 4 major releases has been a pleasure and really easy too - their automatic updater module keeps everything up to date and is incredibly easy to configure. As a result, I really didn\'t need to do anything to get the new versions other than wait a moment while they were downloaded and put in place. Very slick!
They\'ve included everything I really needed and more, so now it\'s a matter of picking nits and talking about what I\'d like to see in future releases (below).
Cons: The VaultletFiler app is still pretty minimalist. I\'d like to see VaultletSoft implement the ability to manage multiple files within a nested directtory structure. Still, this is something I\'d like to have, not something I need. |
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| | VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.4.1.0 | | | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | Hello,
As the President of VaultletSoft, I am quite pleased with the thoughtful, in-depth, and positive review that the VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.4.1 recently received from Softpedia's editor.
Overall, the Softpedia staff has done a fine job of pointing out what the VaultletSuite 2 Go does, what makes it unique, and where they think it needs further improvement. Along those lines, I'd like to respond to a couple of observations made in the review:
Concerning the capacity to simultaneously manage multiple messages within the VaultletMail interface, the reviewer hit the nail squarely on the head – this was far and away the single most requested feature in a survey we recently took of VaultletSuite 2 Go users. Expect to see this capacity implemented in the VaultletMail client when we release v2.5, which is currently in development.
Stay tuned for further announcements concerning the 2nd most requested feature coming in the Spring of 2008.
Concerning the reviewer's difficulty with deleting files stored on our server, the reviewer has most astutely uncovered a bit of counterintuitive GUI design. While it's entirely possible to empty the "Trash" folder on the server with one command, you need to click on the "Empty trash bin" menu item in the VaultletMail client's "VaultletMail" menu to do so. Version 2.4.3, which should be released on Friday, January 18th, remedies this oddity by allowing users to delete messages in the server's "Trash" folder one message at a time by clicking on the "Delete" button.
That said, I'd like to qualify the 4 star rating I gave the VaultletSuite 2 Go in the "Features" category: as a long time daily user of the VaultletSuite 2 Go, I've too have found the "one message at a time" GUI design a bit tiring at times. When the VaultletMail client is capable of multiple message select, I'll give it 5 stars.
There's nothing like a substantive 3rd party review of our software to confirm what I and our users have believed all along: that the VaultletSuite 2 Go is secure, easy to use, and completely free of spyware, adware and viruses.
Best regards to all,
Rick
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R. P. Ruiz
President, VaultletSoft
Your bytes are your business, our business is keeping it that way.
Skype [vaultletsoft.inc] Web [www.vaultletsoft.com] |
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| | VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.2.2.0 | | | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | Pros: I really like the control features that VaultletMail offers: you can flag your messages as "HalfLife'd". That's VaultletSoft's way of saying that your messages can actually be set to disappear after 30 seconds, by the end of the week, etc. Very Mission Impossible! The "ScopeControlled" part allows you to set limits on whether its recipients can archive, print, copy and or forward your messages too. Not that I think that I'm going to need either of these features very often, but they're definitely neat.
Supposedly you can create a portable version of the VaultletSuite 2 Go and carry both your data and the application on your USB thumb drive; I just installed it on my computer, so I can't say how that works. I don't know how many of you need this feature (since I don't), but I imagine that those of you who can't install the VS2Go on your computer at work should find this to be quite nice.
Almost forgot: apparently the VS2Go automatically updates itself. After I installed version 2.2.0.0, it automatically updated itself to v2.2.2 in about 15 seconds. Very nice!
Cons: Here's where I think it's lacking:
The "SpecialDelivery" feature is still in Beta, and while it is true that you can send anybody a secure message, regardless of what email system and client they use, the SpecialDelivery viewer is a bit cumbersome: it takes 2 keystrokes and 2 mouse clicks to load a secure Applet to view your message. Perhaps the SpecialDelivery plugin they're developing for Firefox will make life easier for those who use Firefox to view their webmail accounts.
While the VaultletMail client is easy to use, and nice to look at, I'd really like to be able to delete and archive multiple messages with one click. As it stands, the current version requires that you have to perform each operation individually, so sometimes you may end up deleting messages in your "SpamChallenged" fold by going "click, click, click...". It's a bit repetitive, but it's still nice to know that your spam is segregated from the messages that you want to see; it also has a pretty funny way of deciding what's spam and what's not. Try it yourself to find out...
What about the other pieces, PasswordValet and the VaultletFiler? While they're quite simple and indeed handy, you can tell that this suite's star is the VaultletMail system.
Overall, I think it's a good start, and I look forward to future releases.
p.s.: This just in: the online upgrade to v2.3 for Windows came off w/o a hitch. I really like the idea of always having the latest version w/ol having to seek it out.
p.s.s: a quick explanation of why I only gave it 3 stars for features: while the vs2go does indeed contain quite a few innovative ideas, some of the basics are still not there, like I mentioned in the "Cons" section. Once they're implemented, I'll give it a 4 or 5 for features |
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