Improved Clip Streaming Performance: We have reproduced our entire video library as MP4s (as opposed to FLVs).  This was for iPad compatibility but the result was that our file sizes were halved, making the streaming process exponentially faster!

Enhanced Personalization: ClipTraining now allows you to choose from one of four themes (Hero, Retro, iRobot and Lotus) to help personalize your experience. In addition, you can now upload your avatar for your account.

Next-gen Gamification: Our new ClipAwards trophy room allows you to see all over your digital discs, medals, trophy’s and stars. We’ve added a new level (ClipTraining Guru) with an emerald digi-disc for those few who have achieved 5000+ points. See where you rank in your company and who your top 3 ClipTraining users are.

iPad and Android Friendly: As mentioned above, our clips are now playable on all formats (desktop/laptop/tablets/phones). We have even redesigned our library selections to be more tablet friendly and easier to select items.

For Administrators – Greater reporting ability.  We offer more reporting on the overall activity of a person as well as their progress.

ClipTraining is always improving to benefit our existing customers and our future customers to learn more.  If you haven’t seen the new site and features, check it out today:  http://www.cliptraining.com

Here are a couple of shots from the event:

Choose Your Browser Wisely

Up till now, Microsoft has only bundled within Windows up to one version of Internet Explorer.  Windows 8 doubles the fun by giving us two choices of the same browser.  One is the classic Internet Explorer (version 10) and the other is a new full screen immersive browser called Metro IE which we showed you in this week’s Clip of the Week.  Metro IE provides all the main navigation keyboard shortcuts and mouse support you’ve come to expect – creating tabs, moving between tabs, closing tabs, entering addresses, searching, and more. It’s also very secure offering InPrivate Browsing, SmartScreen and Tracking Protection. 

On the other hand, browser add-ins are conspicuously absent from Metro IE.  Features like password managers or Java powered websites don’t work quite right…okay, they don’t work at all.  But this brings us to a novel approach embedded within the Metro IE browser and that’s a feature called View on the Desktop.

Launching View on the Desktop allows us to quickly pull up the same page we are looking at in Metro IE and view it in the classic desktop version of Internet Explorer 10.  This command is found to the right of the address bar on what looks like a small wrench with a circle around it.

In my informal testing I found this feature seamless and fast.  I was actually impressed with how easy it was to perform.  And since Favorites and History are shared between the browsers, there were no worries about retracing my steps.  The whole process was so easy that it wasn’t bothersome at all.  Interestingly, I found that I actually then would close the classic browser after I needed it and invariably pick up where I left off in Metro IE.  The speed, fluidity and simplicity of the Metro IE browser seemed a better way to access the Internet.

Other browser makers have taken notice of this too.  For a change, it’s possible that other browsers will begin copying what Microsoft’s IE has for users, rather than the other way around.