nessViewer 2.9.7 for Mac available (AirPlay server)

The highlight of this version is AirPlay: presentation of pictures and videos from device (e.g. iPhone) to Mac. That means that both directions are now supported by the media server. (AirPlay is the technology to stream media from device to AppleTV.)
Of course media can be streamed to the media server with every app which supports AirPlay - but with nessViewer App 1.6.6 (available in about one week) e.g. even PDF documents are supported.

But we also improved all other nessViewer components: MediaCenter, media server, media shows, PDF display and web browser.

To name just 2 things: at Google search in the browser, each opened search entries will be called directly (instead of Google redirection). And (among others) YouTube videos can now be automatically presented in lower quality if the internet connection is slow (if "Prefer high movie resolution" at the preferences is unchecked).

nessViewer 2.7.7 available

This version fixes 2 minor bugs:

1.) Clicking on DailyMotion in the browsers "provider examples" displayed DailyMotion without the CSS (which resulted in a very bad display).

2.) At the "German Television" the videos of the podcast were not available due to an developing error.

ForUTV is changing their cinema movie offer: a new domain named "MobyMovies" and movies from Google and YouTube (beside the old ForUTV movies). This might get interesting in the future; currently ForUTV is not available any more and removed from the MediaCenter.

nessViewer App 1.4.3 submitted again to the app store

The Appple Developer Team has given us now detailed information why the app was rejected: the safe browsing may not load all content of a web page and the App Review Team found that this may result in "incorrect" rendering/displaying of web pages.

We now made the "safe browsing" optionally - this way the user can decide whether to browse safely or not (and to accept "incorrect" rendering or not).

For those who do not understand the reason for safe surfing: a lot of web sides load data from other providers and thereby give user data to these providers. By browsing (now optionally) safely only content from the web side is loaded (and thereby the user can avoid to give data to other providers).

Another effect is to avoid redirections to mobile web sides - which sometimes is helpful if one wants to use the "normal" web content.

nessViewer 2.7.2 available (MetaCafe)

At the internet browser MetaCafe is now supported.

Various providers are adapted, among others MySpace at the internet browser and YouTube cinema movies at the media center.

YouTube now expects "&l=en" (language=english) as query parameter to show their cinema movies - is this a preparation to show cinema movies in other languages in near furture? That would be really great!

Our special campaign is now finished - we would like to thank the new customers, in particular for their great ideas to improve nessViewer.

nessViewer 2.6.5 available (Browser)

In this version the download speed of the integrated internet browser is now optimized. And the supported providers are extended: 3sat, Kabel1, MySpass, Pro7, Sat1.

Various providers are adapted: among others MSN Movies which changed their cinema movie offer from flash to MPEG-4.

This is a really good news since these cinema movies can now be offered for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch.

The nessViewer App is already adapted to offer these movies - watch out for the new version 1.4.1 to view German cinema movies. It should be available in about 1 week.

nessViewer 2.6.3 available (Browser search)

With the integrated web browser searching is now available. Supported search engines are currently Bing, Google and Lycos.

Unfortunately the last update had two bugs which caused nessViewer to crash or behave weird after opening a browser window. These 2 bugs are fixed now.

Skyfire has hit the topics - remains to be mentioned only that also the nessViewer App supports various internet sites which movies could otherwise only be played by the (not existing) flash plugin. Free of charge and not sold out... :-))

nessViewer 2.6.2 available (Browser menu)

In the past new collected media show entries were shown after closing the browser menu. Obviously this was confusing for some users.

Now the user can select "Open Media Show" in the browser menu.

Now "Spiegel Online" is also available in lower quality (beside ARD and ZDF mediathek) - especially for our users with lower internet connection speed.

In the nessViewer preferences (and there at MediaCenter) the checkbox "Prefer high movie resolution" must be unchecked to use this feature.