We are proud to announce the availability of eyeSync, the eyeOS Synchronization Tool, for Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP and Vista.

It’s a portable application, and all you need to do to get it running is to uncompress it somewhere in your system (or even inside a Pendrive) and launch eyeSync. The first time you launch it, it will ask you to configure your account (from Preferences). If you want to use it with the Public Server, just put www.eyeos.info in the Server field, and your username/password in the other fields.

You can download it from here and from the Downloads page.

You can add folders form your system to keep synchronized with your eyeOS by pressing Add Folder and choosing the local folder you want to keep synchronized with your eyeOS, and the eyeOS folder you want the contents to go to. Please note that the eyeOS folder must exist, and it must be empty.

When you add a folder, its content will start to synchronize and you can open your eyeOS session and check that your local contents are being imported. Note that the system will detect every change you do on the synchronized folders (such as file edits).

It’s an early version and feedback will be appreciated on the eyeOS Forums.

To see eyeOS widely used by scientists all around the world, a group of eyeOS users and developers, leaded by Alexandre Mejat, has initiated the eyeLIMS project. eyeLIMS is a community-driven project which aims at providing a Free Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) powered by eyeOS.

The eyeLIMS community will develop new eyeOS applications or port to eyeOS existing free open source applications specifically dedicated to molecular and cellular biology.

The eyeLIMS Software Suite will include a set of eyeOS applications dedicated to common activities in research laboratories such as managing samples or reagents (eyeStorage), managing bibliographic references (eyeBiblio) or manipulating data (eyeJmol).

The whole project is Free and Open Source and will be released under GNU Affero GPL v.3 license (the same as eyeOS). If you would like to collaborate with the project or you are interested in following its development, you can check the project’s homepage and its discussion board.