QG Software Blog

We updated our Timeline design today. It’s been compressed to fit more project/task information. In fact, it can fit double the information now.

Here is what the old and new Timelines look like:

We plan to add soon new features to our Flash Timeline and, in time, even make it editable.

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .

We are planning some major infrastructure upgrades soon to keep up with our growing user base. We purchased new servers this week. To assure the quality, we are evaluating two separate servers from different hosting providers.

We are excited to match our software upgrades with hardware ones to create an even better 5pm service.

The schedule of the upgrades will be posted soon.

We experienced some problems with our hosting provider. As a result, our website and services were down. We were dealing with it the whole weekend, and we restored the server earlier today. Our website is up, and the 5pm users can login into their accounts. Some services and features are still being fixed as we speak.

We will send a separate email to our users about it.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. We are taking measures to avoid this issue in the future.

Now 5pm tasks can be viewed in calendar software like Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Mozilla Sunbird and any other calendar that supports iCalendar format. You can view all the tasks, just the ones you are attached to (are a part of the Task Team) or just the tasks from a particular project. Tasks can be imported into the calendar as tasks (”to do items” in Apple iCal) or events. Read more about it here.

You can register your own 5pm account and try it for 14 days for free: www.5pmweb.com.