Cairo Milestone 1 registration will end next Wednesday, February 13. If you would like to register for a chance to be a beta tester, please use our online form.
So far we have had over 1000 individuals register and expect many more in the coming days. We will be selecting about 200 testers and will send out email confirmations to selected applicants.
Thank you for your support.
-Cairo Development Team
Individuals wishing to test the first milestone release of Cairo before it’s available to the entire community can now sign-up to register via our homepage. Applicants who are accepted will be notified and sent a download link. Users will be asked to keep track of bugs and feature suggestions, and to keep in mind that the quality of your comments greatly influences the quality of Cairo.
As always, thanks for your support.
-Cairo Development Team
Throughout the development process we will be releasing milestones, alphas, betas, and release candidates—milestones marking the furthest from completion and release candidate the closest.
The UI in this image represents a Milestone 1 UI, meaning that we have begun taking all of our UI work and consolidating it towards a final interface. Like Microsoft or Apple, this UI may evolve substantially over the course of its development.
The alpha available soon will be a Milestone 1 release, meaning it will mark the first leap towards getting Cairo out into the world. The UI milestones are not necessarily going to coincide with the release milestones.
Questions, comments, criticisms welcome.
-Cairo Team
Cairo was recently featured on Aqua-Soft. We did a developer interview with one of the news staff. Overall, we are very pleased with how it turned out. For many of you, some of the information may be new so it might be worth taking a peak at.
In Alpha news, things are progressing nicely. We are still on track to release in about 5 weeks. Our site traffic has exploded since we revealed plans for an alpha. I guess it just goes to show we are more popular than you might think, and it is a great feeling to have the support of such a great community.
Thanks everyone for your continued support,
The Cairo Team
Dear Cairo Community,
We hope to have an alpha available for select testers within the next 6 weeks. Following a primary testing period we hope to release a more refined alpha, perhaps even a beta build for all interested. The entire team is going to be pushing full steam ahead. We all appreciate your support thus far.
In other news, we have near final working concepts (our developers will be using these for reference as the builds progress) of our ‘Start’ menu replacement and file browser. At this time, we are still experimenting with UI elements and would love to get some initial feedback.
Features:
Resizeable menu window.
Drag and Drop organization into categories.
Easy access to applications, favorite system locations, control panel, and Pyramid (working name–Cairo’s integration/search system).
We are looking into a way of placing customized PNGs on the bottom right corner (’user picture’) as well as allowing full customization of our UI. As with our plugin system, you will make Cairo look how you desire.
Features:
Easy access to favorite system locations, devices, shared (network items) and the Windows folder tree (activated by hover or click for easy file transfer).
Four different file views: carousel/’coverflow,’ details, icon, and virtual file folders (file grouping).
Live file previews.
New data pages: data is grouped by ‘page’ to eliminate scrollbars. Clicking the arrows reveals the next set of data with a smooth and quick fade animation. Jump to a page or letter to quickly locate an item.
Settings button provides easy access to frequent tasks (c/paste, select all, refresh, delete, new folder/shortcut, and explorer preferences) and saves space.
File search and other standard functionality currently in the Windows Explorer.
Welcome to the Revolution.
Best wishes,
The Cairo Team
The Cairo Team is doing a little house cleaning.
Our team is being re-organized and will be back up and running by next week. Do not take this as a sign of anything terrible, but it needed to be done to ensure Cairo’s success and the betterment of our staff.
Thanks for reading,
Cairo Team
Factoid: Once a coconut falls from a palm tree, it takes about three years for this seed to take root and sprout into a new tree.
