After a long development and testing cycle we're pleased to announce that version 1.0 of the Eyejot Mobile Client for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for sale in the iTunes App Store. We have prepared a separate product page at iphone.eyejot.com that offers additional information about the app.

We are fully committed to delivering a robust mobile video mail platform and hope you'll give our latest product a try if you're a current iPhone or iPod Touch user. If you've got an Android phone don't worry. We're planning to release a version for the Android platform soon.

A note to our customers: Numerous Eyejot services operate within Amazon's AWS cloud computing umbrella and several of our virtual servers and resources are located in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington, DC. In the event that the hurricane disrupts services for Amazon, it's possible those events will cascade and also impact Eyejot. We will continue to monitor our services and report accordingly.

We've added a new way of customizing your standard Eyejot template colors after some users reported having trouble using our Template Tuner. You'll find our new Manual Color Settings interface through your Profile page on the Customization tab, next to the Template Tuner link.

After you click the new link you'll be exposed to a panel that lets you edit all fourteen (14) of our standard template CSS elements. If you're working with a specific set of colors and want to manually enter them, you can paste their values directly into the edit fields on this page. If you'd like to choose colors from a pallate you may do that by clicking on the lower right-hand corner of the color picker control next to each field.

Press the Save Color Settings to save your settings. To help you become familiar with the various CSS field names we've included an element map which can be revealed by pressing the link labeled Display guide which will display this image.

We've added the ability for Eyejot to place a link to a downloadable vCard on your message viewing (mview) and user pages. You can activate the new feature through your profile. Simply mark the checkbox labeled Displaylink to download vCard on the Contact & Privacy panel. We have also added two new fields for storing your company name and your business title, if you want to include that information in your vCard.

When a visitor to your user or message viewing page clicks on your vCard link they'll be able to download and save a file that has been formatted using the vCard version 3.0 specification. These files can typically be imported directly into programs like OS X's Address Book or Microsoft's Outlook contact manager. It's a standard format that's widely recognized.

One of our users, David Taylor, has produced some exceptionally detailed and visually stunning overviews of Eyejot features that are available on YouTube. In one video, aimed at educators, David walks users though steps necessary for creating and sending Eyejot messages. He utilizes screencasting techniques in a highly artful and effective manner.

We'd like to thank him for producing these videos and for supporting Eyejot. We're glad our platform has helped both educators and students alike communicate with one another.

You can view his recent video aimed at educators here.