After 10 years of good service, the previous version just retired today as ContactOffice launched its new website. So long old chap, you did a great job.
From now on, users going to www.contactoffice.com will be logging into the Advanced interface, now selected by default. The Advanced interface benefits from all the new features and improvements [...]

Using multiple email accounts at the same time
Almost everybody has at least one private and one professional email address. When you use ContactOffice as default professional email address (ex: me@contactoffice.com), you can also consolidate your other private (and professional) email accounts in ContactOffice’s interface in order to have all your mails in one single interface. [...]

MARSEILLE, December 7, 2009 - Together with ContactOffice leader of collaborative applications on the French market, the University of Marseille 3 has developed a contingency plan that helps maintain a link between teaching faculty and students, even in cases of pandemic influenza A / H1N1. A first in the French academic world.

The University of [...]

ContactOffice recently launched its auto suggestion feature which is really helpful by suggesting email names that are similar to what you’re typing. A couple of keystrokes, an auto-complete suggestion, and you don’t have to type the entire email name every time. It is both simple and handy.
The ContactOffice application recognizes any address in your private [...]

You can invite group members or external contacts (from your private addressbook or a group addressbook) to an existing event by selecting the “Participants” tab. This is the best method to collect RSVP’s (ie I will attend or not from participants). The meeting will automatically be displayed in the group members calendars. External contacts will [...]

Because a file is quite large or because some servers limit the size of incoming e-mails to a very low value, sometimes you just can’t e-mail a file to someone. In other cases, the recipient’s mailbox is almost full and won’t accept a large file…
Instead of sending the Document in the e-mail itself, you can [...]

If you’re a user of the Ajax version of our virtual office, have a look at the comment option we just implemented. For each item in your mailbox, you’re now able to write and save a personal note by clicking on the “comment” button” (cf. this screenshot). Very useful when you want to remind yourself [...]

You know the story: even though you’ve been able to find a wireless network (using your credit card or not), you can’t send e-mails from your e-mail software because of these annoying SMTP relay server settings, which you have to change each time you switch networks.
Of course, you could connect to the ContactOffice Web interface [...]

A central repository for documents, ContactOffice offers a CIFS / SMB client to access your documents stored on remote

ContactOffice has just released in beta an integration of the Zoho tools including Writer, Sheet and Show. They are Web-based tools and allow you to create, edit, and access your spreadsheets, docs and presentations files from anywhere without the need of having these applications installed on your pc. All documents edited by these tools [...]

Having problems with a shared document that is in a format that you cannot open. Or… are you on a machine that does not have the right software to open a specific document of yours?
Well as from now you can use our .PDF converter in the documents tool. You just need to [...]

Our virtual drive (WebDAV server for the techies) works with all operating systems, including Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95 (time to upgrade, though), Mac OS and Linux (all flavours).
Using the virtual drive, you can easily open files from your virtual office, save them from your favorite application and import or export [...]

Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web is featuring a series of blog spots on Web Offices this week.
One of the items was an interesting poll about Word processing tools, that delivered the following top 5:
1. Microsoft Word 47% (391 votes)
2. OpenOffice 15% (125 votes)
3. Google Docs 13% (105 votes)
4. A Text Editor (e.g. Notepad, Emacs) [...]

Documents are now protected with an antivirus: when you add a document (using the Web interface or the virtual drive), it is scanned for viruses.
If the document is infected, it will be refused by the system. Thanks to this feature, you do not need to be afraid anymore to upload or download a group document [...]

ContactOffice integrates now the possibility to call your contacts with Skype or Skype-Out.
Enter the Skype address of a contact in the “Instant messaging” zone. In the Addressbook preferences, tick the “Skype links” box to activate them. A button will appear next to each Skype contact: this button gives the contact status: available, [...]

You can check the validity of the information from all your contacts by clicking one button!
This function is only available for your own contacts.
It allows you to automatically check contact data: the system sends an email to the contact asking him/her to review his/her data (except for the “Comments” field and the Categories). The email [...]

addicts can easily integrate their personal and/or group calendar(s) in their favorite RSS-reader.
Each (private or group) calendar has 4 RSS feeds:

Today
This week
This month
30 days (from today)

These feeds are protected by your login and password.
To add the Calendar to your feedreader :

Go to a calendar and move the pointer to one of the images. [...]