Here at Brosix, we always appreciate write-ups and reviews about Brosix Instant Messenger by bloggers and regular users. These types of public reviews allow potential Brosix users to hear others’ opinions about our product before signing up for a free 30-day trial of Brosix Enterprise or downloading Brosix Public for themselves.

Once such write-up that is clear and concise is the Brosix Public Review written on About.com by Instant Messaging Guide Brandon De Hoyos. Brandon states that Brosix’s strongest points are:

• Easy-to-Use Client Makes IM a Breeze
• Wealth of Features Make Brosix an Amazing Client
• Strong Security/Encryption Sets Brosix Apart from Pack

While Brandon does state that our “plain” features don’t stand out compared to “prettier” instant messengers– we know that brains over beauty usually wins out every time! Brosix is an award-winning instant messenger for businesses and individuals that want a secure online communication tool without having to worry about spammers and hackers.

Thanks for the review, Brandon and About.com!

For Brosix Enterprise users, the import/export feature is one that comes in handy on many occasions.

With this feature, network owners can easily bulk import user accounts into their IM network. Best yet, this is a “one click” process – there is no manual creation of each account.

The Brosix Web Control Panel is full of features that are designed to make life easy on the network administrator. The import/export feature definitely falls into this category.

Along with easily importing users, you can do the same with the export feature. By clicking the export icon, user accounts including first name, last name, and email, are exported into the program of your choice.

The import/export users feature of Brosix Enterprise allows you to automatically import and export user accounts with speed and efficiency.

For Brosix enterprise users, the custom logo feature should not be overlooked.

With this feature, IM network administrators have the ability to upload their company logo direct from the Web Control Panel. When enabled, the new logo is displayed both on the Brosix download site and the account site.

Is it mandatory? Of course not. If you don’t want to use the custom logo feature you can forget about it for the time being.

Why would I want to add a custom logo? In short, it improves the overall user experience as those in your network will have visual confirmation that they are in the right place. Not to mention the fact that it helps from a “branding” perspective.

The ability to add a custom logo is just one of many features that make Brosix the perfect choice for businesses of all sizes.

Readers'Choice Awards 2011 Finalist

• Best IM Client for Mac 2011: Brosix
• Best Business IM 2011: Brosix
• Best IM Feature 2011: Brosix Screen Sharing

Thanks to all our customers, users and friends that supported us for this nomination.

Voting is now underway and we would appreciate your support. Voting ends Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at midnight EST. So, hurry to vote and make all your friends vote as well.

You can vote for Brosix by following all of these links. It is important to click on each of these links as they vote in different categories

Vote for Brosix in Best IM Client for Mac 2011
Vote for Brosix in Best Business IM 2011
Vote for Brosix Screen Sharing in Best IM Feature 2011

There’s no prize — just the bragging rights that come with knowing that the readers of one of the Web’s largest networks love your favourite IM client – Brosix

We are very close for the release of the new Brosix version 3.1

Brosix 3.1 comes with many improvements and new features.

Improvements:

• Changes in the User Interface – We rearranged some components, moved them around, added new small features here and there to make Brosix easier to use.

• Local History upgrade – Local history is upgraded in two ways. First it is saved in a different format, and second, you can disable it from Brosix settings.

• Fixed bugs – We have found some bugs here and there and we have fixed them. An important one was with the Text Conference, when you sign off and then sign in, you was receiving messages from the text conference participants in separate windows.

New features:

• Custom Online, Away and Busy states – You can define custom states like “Away, I am out for lunch” or “Busy, I am in a meeting”. These custom states are displayed directly on your contact computers so they know why exactly you are away or busy.

• Text Chat upgrade – Text chat comes with several new features – integrated history, quick messages, auto-reply, easy group conference.

• History in Text Chat- When you open Text Chat window, all today’s conversation with this contact is displayed. This makes easier to continue a previous conversation.

• Quick messages – You can pre-define messages and send them with a single click. This saves time when you have to send the same message all over the day. For example the receptionist has frequently to type: “You have a call on line#”

• Auto-reply – You can instruct Brosix to automatically reply for incomming messages when you are in a certain state. For example, you have set your online state to “Busy, I am in a meeting” and Joe is sending you a message. Brosix can automatically reply him back with “Auto reply: I am busy right now in a meeting. I will contact you as soon as I can.”

• Easy group conference – Starting a conference with a group is much easier now. Just select the group from your contact list, and then click the Text Chat icon. This will automatically create a Text Conference with all people in that group that are currently online.

• Screen Sharing - the most important new feature. The other name is “Desktop Sharing”.

Brosix Screen-Sharing

Brosix Screen Sharing allows extremely easily to share your computer screen with a colleague or friend or to request him to view his screen. There are four types of Brosix Screen Sharing sessions:

1. Send your screen to a contact
2. Send your screen to a contact and allow him to work with your mouse and keyboard
3. View your contact’s screen
4. View your contact’s screen and work with his mouse and keyboard

The cases you would need such a tool are numerous. You may ask yout IT department to help with your computer. Your IT department personnel could be a thousand miles away and they can assist you immediately. You may want to show your colleague the new software you use, browse sites together etc.etc.

All this can save you travel or other expenses.

The best two things about Brosix Screen Sharing are:

1. It is completely free – no limits on how frequently or how long you use it. You may use it once a day for 20 minutes or leave it running all the day.
2. It is extremely easy to use – just a few clicks and the session starts – as everything with Brosix

Brosix Personal, the free for personal use version, updated its download page. Now it contains more detailed instructions how to download and install.

This is the main download page that points to the others
http://www.brosix.com/download/

And these are the pages with detailed instructions
http://www.brosix.com/download/windows/
http://www.brosix.com/download/windows-portable/
http://www.brosix.com/download/mac/
http://www.brosix.com/download/linux/

We hope these detailed instructions will help our users easier to install and use Brosix.

Effective November 1st, Brosix updated its free trial program.

All new instant messaging networks created after this date receive a free trial with these parameters:

• 30 days free of charge
• 1000 – one thousand user accounts
• all features activated

Our potential customers can try all Brosix features for 30 days completely free, with no charges and obligations. The 1000 user accounts allow small and big companies do a relaxed trial and make proper decisions.

When the free trial expires, networks can order as many user accounts as they want. At any time they can add and remove user licenses and this way control their expenses.

To get the free trial, just go to the web site and after a few clicks your private IM network will be up and running - http://www.brosix.com/signup/

Chat Window: The Brosix version for Linux

Brosix 3, the newest version of the award-winning instant messenger software, is available for Mac and Linux systems. This is great for the growing number of individual and business owners who currently have or are purchasing computers that have these operating systems.

Buddy Window: The Brosix version for Mac

In the initial versions of Brosix, it was available for Windows users only. “Brosix recognized a need from its customers for more system options so they wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not their computer could use Brosix,” Stefan Chekanov, Owner of Brosix, said. “Customers appreciate the wide variety of options that we provide, which starts at availibility for Mac, Windows, and Linux and continues with our rich user features, like Whiteboard and Screen-Sharing.”

Besides using Brosix on almost any computer, it can also be placed on a zip drive and loaded remotely so installation isn’t required. Brosix specalized in providing free and paid enterprise instant messaging solutions for companies and individuals that wish to communicate with their co-workers, clients, and family on a secure, encrypted network.

To see more screenshots of Brosix for Linux and Mac, visit here http://www.brosix.com/screenshots/

I am very glad to announce the official release of Brosix 3.

This Brosix version took about 18 months to develop. It is a result of the hard work of our entire team but we think it worths. Our goal is to make a tool that works the same way on several platforms, speaks your language, looks nice and most important – does a great job in your everyday communication.

Here are some key points about Brosix 3:

• Brosix works on Windows, Mac and Linux. The important thing is that all features are available on all the platforms – text chat, file transfer, whiteboard, voice calls, video calls, languages, themes etc. All features work on Windows, Mac and Linux. This gives you the freedom to communicate from virtually all available PC platforms.

• Brosix speaks several languages in its user interface – Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

• Brosix supports themes in its user interface. It comes with 6 themes. You can also make your own themes to customize its look.

• Brosix supports groups in the contact list. Each user can organize his/her contacts in groups. The Instant Messaging network administrator can create and manage groups from the web control panel. This gives you a powerful tool to organize users.

• Download page for your private Instant Messaging  network. We are extending the supported platforms and this means there are more Brosix distributions available for your IM network. We have created a download page to contain all the versions for your IM network – Brosix setup for Windows, Brosix portable for Windows, Brosix for Mac, Brosix for Linux. This is a central storage for all Brosix versions designed and built for your organization. You can go to your web control panel to get the address of your download page or go to http://download.brosix.com and after entering your Instant Messaging Network name you will be redirected to your download page.

• Brosix means secure communication. Every text message, every file, every voice call, everything is encrypted. This means only you and your contact can read the information you exchange.

• Brosix is more than instant messenger. It has many features than Text Chat. It is also File Transfer, Voice Calls, Video Calls, Screenshot, Whiteboard, Co-Browse, Text Conference.

We believe Brosix 3 will bring Instant Messaging and group collaboration to a new level.

Great news for users of the free version of Brosix Instant Messenger, Brosix Public– the Brosix 3 Release Candidate (RC) has been released to all users. When opening Brosix, users will be prompted to update their version of Brosix to this new RC.

Before the final version goes live, Brosix would like your feedback on Brosix 3. Please feel free to send us your comments, feedback, and questions by filling out the form on the contact page.

The following are screenshots from the new version of Brosix. Enjoy!