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.

We are proud to announce the second official eyeOS theme, available at the eyeOS Applications Community: The eyeOS Light Desktop.

The Light Desktop theme is a lightweight theme that removes the effects-based menus and adds a new left bar on the desktop (that can be easily edited) with the favorite apps and places, with a new menu that shows all the applications.

It will come bundled with eyeOS 1.6 as an optional theme (the default one will be the current one with some improvements).

If you have an eyeOS server, you can download and install this theme easily, following the instructions at the theme’s download page. You can also take a look at the other great eyeOS Themes available there.

If you use the eyeOS Public Server or any other public server that has this theme installed, you can follow this instructions to enable the Light Desktop:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to Autorun Commands and click on New.
3. Write eyeLightDesk (note that it’s case sensitive!) and click on Add.
4. Go to Theme and select Light Desktop.
5. Close your session and log in. That’s all!

If you want your desktop to load faster, you can remove eyeDock and eyeDesk_extras from your Autorun Commands. Just re-add them when you want to switch to the default theme again.

If you are having problems enabling this theme, you can check the common problems and solutions at them theme download page.

We would love to know where are you using eyeOS, and which apps do you use on the system, to prepare the next releases acording to eyeOS main uses. Please take 20 seconds to answer this two polls:

We will be adding a new poll to resume the main whishes and blueprints for eyeOS 1.6 (add yours at this Forums’ topic) so the Roadmap of eyeOS 1.6 will be built with the most voted ideas.

Thanks!

We’re proud to announce the new eyeOS User Manual (PDF - 25 pages), a handbook which explains how to use eyeOS, from the creation of a new account to the usage of the common applications and system customization.

It’s thought to be printed and consulted when using eyeOS, by end-users, who may not have technical knowledges.

The new user manual is an important step on working with eyeOS in a production environment, as a first help for the eyeOS users.

Download the eyeOS User Manual (PDF file)

If you are interested in translating the eyeOS Manual to your language, please contact us at team@eyeos.org and we’ll send you the necessary files. Thanks!

After seeing some people in the Forums asking for help about installing eyeOS on their local Operating System, we have started a series of HOWTO’s about installing eyeOS locally, step by step and with screenshot tours, in some different Operating Systems.

The actual tutorials are:

How to install eyeOS on Debian Etch
How to install eyeOS on Ubuntu Gutsy
How to install eyeOS on Windows XP

We’ll be expanding the list to new OSes soon. If you would like to see a tutorial like these in your SO, please leve a comment here.

We have just added the certified languages to eyeSoft’s default eyeOS repository.

This means that from now, installing a language pack to eyeOS is as simple as opening eyeSoft, updating the package list, selecting the language and clicking on Install… The system will do the work, and when it’s done, the language will be installed and ready for use, to be activated from System preferences!

We’ll be including new software and languages updates when available.

Yes, eyeOS is Web Software, but is Web Software the right way