Briefcase v1.1 has hit the App Store. We've received a lot of great feedback in the three weeks since we launched Briefcase. The new versions of Briefcase and Briefcase Lite smooth out some of the rough edges and fine tune the workflow.

Note that for Briefcase Lite the new version is actually v1.1.1. My apologies to those affected by the document viewing bug in the first Briefcase Lite update. A change intended to extend document viewing capabilities in the full version of Briefcase had the side effect of restricting document viewing in Briefcase Lite. We pulled the update immediately and fixed the problem, but we know that some of you updated before we discovered the problem.

Along with the update to Briefcase, we would also like to announce our new demo video (we've been busy!). We weren't content to just drone on about Briefcase's features (although I do a bit of that). We decided to have a bit of fun and throw in some spies, cars, and top secret documents. You can watch just the spy short or you can watch the full length demo complete with lots of droning. We've also got a [YouTube version] of the spy movie for those who prefer it.

Back on the topic of the update, we have tried to respond to as many issues as possible while getting an update out in a timely fashion. We've upgraded the image viewer, cleaned up the connection UI and improved the workflow for those who don't store their passwords in Briefcase. Along with that, there have been numerous other fixes and tweaks. For a full list, see our change log.

For v1.0 of Briefcase, the image viewer was probably the weakest part of the software. For v1.1 we've done our best to turn it into one of Briefcase's strengths. The iPhone has a limit of one megapixel for image display. Briefcase did not obey that limit in v1.0, resulting in instability when viewing larger images. For v1.1 we've changed the full version of Briefcase to support the display of images of arbitrary size. Most iPhone apps handle this by scaling larger images down to one mega-pixel. In Briefcase we've pushed that up to two mega-pixels using image tiling. When you zoom in on large images in Briefcase, you'll see more detail. Images larger than two mega pixels are scaled down to 2 mega-pixels for display. I've tested with images up to 45 mega-pixels with no problems (you do have to be a bit patient, after all it's only an iPhone:-).

Please continue to send your feedback our way. In the mean time, we'll keep chugging away on the wish list we've already compiled.

Thanks for your support!