Now that you’ve eaten all your chocolates and enjoyed your lovely roses, here’s a ‘very nice’ gift from radius. This release has three very cool features you’ve all been asking for.

First off, we wired radius so you can see when your friends on AIM, MSN and Yahoo are receiving IMs on their mobile phones. Always good info to know when you’re about to send a message. Check out Borat below. He’s continuing his world tour, but still receiving IMs on his phone.

Next, we’ve spruced up the IM logs window and fixed some logging bugs. It’s way slicker and has full text search capability. So, start logging those IMs. All you have to do is go to the settings window and check the ‘log all my IMs’ box. You can get to those logs by clicking the logs icon shown below as well as right clicking on a friend and selecting ’show log.’

Lastly, you can now save your password. So, the next time you visit radius, you’ll be automatically logged in. Just click the save password box and you’ll be IMing that much faster.

Thanks for all the support and let us know if you have any ideas to make radius even better.

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Our last release a few weeks ago was pretty huge and today we offer up even more love. This release marks a big step towards enhancing our IM feature set with a really sweet Friend Overlay. Mousing over your friends now loads an overlay featuring the user’s pic, their distance away from you (radius friends), status and any away messages. You’ll also see that nicknames are coming very soon too!

Along with the overlay we’ve fixed some bugs and further improved stability. And if you’re here, you noticed that we have a blog link on the page now. So check back often and post some comments so we can get more feedback.

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It’s release time again and since we didn’t want to steal Apple’s iPhone thunder we waited until MacWorld was over to announce the great new stuff. This time around we focused on a new look and feel, usability and more speed.

Highlights:

SPEED! We’ve been working hard to optimize the application over the past few weeks. You’ll notice a big improvement in performance. Everything from logging in to messaging has been souped-up.

Wide is the new square! We love the whole widescreen revolution so we made some changes to the map window to give it that slick HD look. You’ll also notice a new toolbar on the map window and friend list. Be sure to click on the cool new icons to get the most out of radiusIM.

You can now IM Anyone. Click the IM Anyone icon in the Friend List and it will launch a window where you can type in an IM username on any network and send them an IM.

A new and improved Status Bar. The Status Bar now has colored indicators so you know what state you’re in and the text entry box for editing your custom messages is much easier to use.

There’s more great stuff on the way so keep an eye out and be sure to let us know what you’d like to see in the app by clicking the feedback link.

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We spent the last few weeks polishing off our latest release which went live on the 25th. It’s got some great new stuff that adds speed, stability and some cool new features.

Highlights:

The Messaging Windows are MUCH faster and have some slick new features. The grey title bar now has an icon to remind you what network you’re messaging on and you can size the pane where you type messages by dragging the three dots.

The application is much more stable in general and you’ll see some big improvements in keeping your connection alive.

There are some new graphics in the friend list and reliability of AIM away messages is much better.

There’s also a cool new ‘Zoom to Location’ feature. Right click (CTRL+click on Safari) on a picture in the grid and you can select ‘Zoom to Location.’ This will zoom the map right to the location of that person. Give it a whirl, it’s really cool.

And a slew of bug fixes to make using radius much easier.

The next release will be in a week or two and include:

MORE SPEED! We’re making some changes to the app which will make it run much faster..especially in IE.

Some tweaks to the look and feel. With each new release we take a fresh look at the app and think of ways to make it easier to use. Look for some new graphics that should make things more intuitive.

Improved support for ICQ and Jabber.

Thanks again for the support and PLEASE pass along some feedback by clicking the feedback link

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These days we’re hard at work moving radius closer and closer to beta and today’s release is a big step in the right direction. We’re excited to share it with everyone and hear what you guys have to say.

Highlights of the release today are:

• More love for the Safari web browser crowd - works much better!
• Easier sign-up process - less info from you and get to the app right away
• Timestamps for offline messages - good to know when they were sent
• Login is WAY faster
• IMing on the other networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk) is much more stable
• Cool lat/long URL so you can auto update your location when you log in. This link, for example, positions you at Whistler after you login.

As always, pass along any feedback and let us know if you see anything funky.

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