By jherskowitz | March 8, 2010 - Posted in Software Release, Updates, Web
A few weeks ago we rolled out a new toolbar that lets you search the web, LimeWire and for torrents - and also makes downloading content from the web with LimeWire so much easier! We received some great response to those features, and we promised some improvements would appear shortly. Well, “shortly” is almost here. On […]
By jherskowitz | February 15, 2010 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, Torrent, Updates
The “T” Word
In the past, the word “toolbar” has often had a stigma associated with it that evoked visions of undesired third-party adware bundled and installed without a user’s consent. In fact, at LimeWire we have turned away countless companies that have wanted us to bundle software - that while it would have generated […]
By jherskowitz | September 10, 2009 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, News, Updates
Dear Friends -
Recently we rolled out a great feature in LimeWire 5.2 that let you guys easily share files with your Facebook friends using LimeWire. This feature has been very positively received and we have been working on building out that feature and extending it to users of other social networks as well. Shortly after […]
By meverett | June 10, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, Updates
Thanks for everyone who attended our session at JavaOne 2009.
Anyone who was there knows we promised to post our slides and demo source code. So here you go:
LimeWire: Swing for the Masses.pdf
Guice-Demo.zip
GlazedLists-Demo.zip
JXLayer-Demo.zip
Painting-Demo.zip
If you’d like to see slides from other talks, all of the slides from JavaOne can be found here.
LimeWire is also open source. So […]
By Dan | February 5, 2009 - Posted in Community, Design, Updates, post mortem
Editor’s note: this blog is another account of the LW 5 Post Mortem.
Some things That Went Right
Who’s your audience and what do they want?
I’ve read about it, seen the tire swing cartoon and heard co-workers mention the customer is key, but it was always lip service everywhere I worked. At least until the user experience […]
By Mike S | February 4, 2009 - Posted in Design, Software Release, Updates, post mortem
It’s a July afternoon and Sam, our team lead, called a meeting. He’s got a smile and he starts writing dates on the board. Alpha: in months, Beta: a few weeks later. Final release: Christmas 2008. The remainder of the team is in silence, just nodding their heads in agreement at him while we were […]
