Release of Topicscape Pro 2.5 into the wild

Yes, it’s left its Beta status and gone gold:  You can now download 3D Topicscape Pro 2.5.

• Differences;
• What’s new;
• Pro licenses
• ‘Help’ migrates to wiki;
• User-made video.

The differences from 2.15 are very significant.  Most noticeable is that it allows an almost instant switch between 3D and 2D views. 

But also, it has options for flying like Google Earth (in 3D) or Cooliris (in 2D – see above), improved navigation and user controls, much greater visibility of files and file previews from the 3D and 2D views, enhanced MindManager import, and the capability of moving the main “My Topicscapes” folder around without re-installing and manually copying files. It has now been tested for Windows 7 compatibility.

The illustrated “What’s New” page has details of a couple of additional capabilities that weren’t mentioned in the Beta What’s new. 

If you have a Topicscape Pro 2.0 license, you will be able to run vsn. 2.5 straight away – it’s a free upgrade.  A reminder: Topicscape Pro 1.0 users can upgrade for a modest $29.99 charge by clicking the Buy Now button.  If you accidentally load a Pro 1 license into Pro 2, Topicscape will fail to load some components and won’t run.  In that case, you’ll have to uninstall Topicscape Pro 2 and install it again.

With the release of 2.5, we have decided to mostly externalize the Help system.  Topicscape Pro itself now contains a 20-page Help of essential information, but the main help is half-way through being transferred to the Topicscape Wiki – a few more days and we hope to have that done.  It has a fully hyperlinked Contents page.  This means we can update the help without having to release a new installer.  If you still want the Help on your PC for offline reference, you can download the PDF.

One of our users, David Esko, made a great vid: http://is.gd/5phL4 Take a look!

Roy