Hey Folk, new release, new features. Instead of packing tons of new features into a new release and waiting weeks to release it, we decided to put out more incremental releases.

[NEW FEATURES]

New Sending Interface: When sending Friend Requests, Messages or Comments, you will notice a new real-time sending status. It will show you the total number of successes and failures. It will show you elapsed time and the results of each individual send. It also allows you to Pause sending (new feature). It also allows you to put the status window in the System Tray (little icon in the corner of Windows) or minimize the window if you don't want it on your desk top.  

Manage Lists: New feature allows you to add/remove users to/from your User Lists. More to come, but this should give you a good start with the functionality.

YouTube Maintenance: If YouTube is performing maintenance on their website, Tube Toolbox will recognize it and pause sending.

Failure Reports: This is the 4th release in a row where we added code to report problems back up to us. If a send fails, it sends us information which we can examine and fix problems for future releases. This has been a huge help so far. 

[Bug Fixes]

International Dates: We had people in Fance and Italy that were having problems with Tube Toolbox and I found that a root of a lot of the problem had to do with how dates are formatted in other countries. I made some changes which will fix some of these problems.

[NOTES]

Many changes were made to the code for sending when the new sending status screen was implemented. So, please let us know of any issues that you run in to.

Power accounts have been eliminated. From now on, Personal users will be able to make unlimited video downloads. 

We have a whole list of great upcoming features (copy and pasted in from requests and in no particular order) here: http://www.tubetoolbox.com/upcomingfeatures.aspx

 

A new version of Tube Toolbox has been released which includes some emergency fixes, some general bug fixes and a few new features.

 Emergency Fixes

• Bulk Message Sending - YouTube changed the way messages are sent out so we needed to change Tube Toolbox. The fix is complete but since it was completely re-done, please let us know if you run into any problems. Related to message sending - it looks like with the new interface on YouTube, you can send the same messages to multiple people at once. We don't know any more than you at this point but it seems like perhaps we could work this feature into Tube Toolbox for more efficient message sending.

New Features

•  Hide in System Tray. When bulk sending, we had a request from a user that they would like to be able to hide the Tube Toolbox in the system tray so that it didn't take up room in their task bar. To use this feature, click on Settings from the Options menu.
  
  
• Gather Page Count. When gathering users/videos you can now optionally select a maximum number of pages to gather.

Bug Fixes

• We had reports that gathering users and videos was not picking up ALL users and videos on the page. We went in and re-worked the feature and believe that it is working 100% correctly now. If there is a particular page where it isn't picking up the Users or Videos that you think it should, please email support@TubeToolbox.com and let us know the page.
  
  
• User/Video name fixes. When gathering user names and videos, we found that sometimes it would extract a name incorrectly (for example, "ttpromo1&ref=1" instead of just "ttpromo". It should always gather names correctly now and Tube Toolbox will actually fix those bad names that are currently stored in your database the first time that the new version runs.

Other Notes

• GET PAID TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT TUBE TOOLBOX!! We are working on creating an Affiliate Program where you can get paid (or get Free months added to your Professional Account) when you refer others to Tube Toolbox. For a sneak peak, take a look at http://www.TubeToolbox.com/AffiliateSignUp.aspx . Keep in mind that it is not complete yet. We will hopefully have it done by May 14th.
  
  
• New Status Page. We are working on a Status Page that our customers can check in on to see what new features we are working on for future releases and also give updates for when features are broken or being worked on. It's not done yet, but will be at http://www.TubeToolbox.com/Status.aspx
  
  
• Instructional Videos Back. Most of our demo videos are back online after YouTube took down our account. We may have perminantly lost a few of them but we'll work on re-creating them and posting back on our site.

We are VERY excited to announce the release of a new version of Tube Toolbox. There are many changes that you will notice and some that are behind the scenes. Please take the time to read below all of the great things that were added in this release.

New Professional Features

• Featured Videos. Tube Toolbox now has a section for featured videos displayed on the main window. Good news for our Professional Users - YOU will be our featured videos! Each Professional User of Tube Toolbox may set one of their videos as a featured video within Tube Toolbox and all users who log in will be shown four featured videos randomly (including yours!). Simply right click on one of your videos listed along the left hand side and select "Set as Tube Toolbox Featured Video."
  
  
• Subscription Invites. Yes, Tube Toolbox (finally ) has subscription invites and they couldn't be any easier. Simply select how many invites you would like to send out, which contact list to send to and click the 'Start' button. Tube Toolbox handles the rest.
  
  
• Multi-Account Message Sending. YouTube has put so many limits on message sending that we had to break out the big guns on this one. When sending messages, you can now add multiple accounts into Tube Toolbox and Tube Toolbox will cycle through the accounts sending out messages. That way, your sending limit is not reached as quickly. You only need one Professional account to use this feature - the other accounts that you cycle through can be Personal accounts. As strange as it may sound, we are actually against SPAM so please do not abuse this feature.

New Personal / General Features

• Help Icons on ALL screens. You will no longer be confused when using Tube Toolbox :)  All screens have a help icon (question mark). Simply click on the question mark for a full interactive demo showing you how to use the feature.
  
  
• High Definition Video. There were some recent articles on the Internet about how to watch high definition videos in YouTube. We decided to incorporate them into Tube Toolbox. Anytime that you are watching a video, you can click on the "HD" button to the right of the address bar and the video will be loaded in HD. If you right-click on any videos in your list, you can also click Vide -> High Definition.
  
  
• Important Notices. In the past, if changes to YouTube temporarily broke Tube Toolbox, our users were left clueless and out in the dark. We have added special notification to all of our users in this new version. Anytime that we need to tell all of you a message, the message will appear when Tube Toolbox first loads. You will no longer be left in the dark.
  
  
• Video Demonstrations. We have created full walk throughs for each of our tools in Tube Toolbox and posted the videos on both our website and our help sections in Tube Toolbox. Please take a minute to check them out and let us know if you have any further suggestions on areas to create demos.
  
  
• Updated Website. TubeToolbox.com has been updated with a new screenshot, more release information and demos of all of our features.
  
  
• Tube Toolbox Forum Membership. You no longer have to create a new account to post messages in our forums. Simply log in using your YouTube username and password. Please take advantage of this valuable resource.
  
  
• Video Analytics. To view how many downloads your video has each day or where the downloads are coming from, right-click on your video on the left hand side of the screen and select View -> Video Analytics. You may only few these stats for your own videos.
  
  
• Clear All Data. We added a feature that allows you to clear all of your Tube Toolbox data and start from scratch. To see how this is done, please watch the video from our help section.
  

Bug Fixes / Enhancements

• Downloading Videos. We found out that users were having trouble downloading videos that required age verification and have fixed that issue. Downloading videos is now as smooth as ever.
  
  
• Creating New Lists. When you are gathering users and you create a new list, that new list will become your default selection. Just one less mouse-click for you to do.
  
  
• Bad Usernames/Videos. We had reports of invalid usernames or videos being picked up when gathering from a page which has been fixed.
  
  
• Safeguards. We have added one feature which you won't see that will help keep Tube Toolbox running even if YouTube makes changes to their website that would have previously broken Tube Toolbox. We will continue to add as many safeguards as possible to ensure your account stays up and running.
  
  
• Error Logging. We have improved our error logging which lets us know when users are having problems and allows us to quickly resolve any issues.
  
  
• Recipients List. When selecting your recipients list, we now exclude your own name from the list to make sure that your bulk sends get to the right people.
  
  

Hello Tube Toolbox Users!

We put out this 'emergency' release because YouTube made changes to their site which broke Tube Toolbox. The only problem is that we are right in the middle of making a bunch of changes that have not been fully tested. So... we recommend laying off the new features for a couple days. This weekend we will put out an official release and describe all of the new great features.

Thanks!
-Toolman

Version 1.2.2.0 of Tube Toolbox has been released which brings some exciting changes. For one thing, speed has been dramatically improved. For those of you with thousands of friends or gathered users, tasks that used to take minutes will take seconds. We discovered that Tube Toolbox was saving invalid Usernames which caused problems so this new version will clean those up. After reviewing some specific videos that Tube Toolbox was unable to download, we have made some changes which should allow you to download any video now. The biggest change in this version is the ability to create & save messages. Instead of re-typing a message or comment each time you use Tube Toolbox, they will be saved in the database and available to be retrieved. When sending bulk messages, it is recommended that you enter 10-15 variations of your message because YouTube recently imposed a limitation to the number of users that a single message can be sent to. If you enter multiple messages, Tube Toolbox will cycle through them so the same message isn't sent over and over. This will dramatically improve the success of bulk message sending.

If you have any questions about the new features or run into any problems, please let us know so that we can resolve the issues.

Thanks!
-Toolman

YouTube has recently implemented code that affects Tube Toolbox when sending messages. You can no longer send the exact same message to more than 2 or 3 people in a given day. We are working on ways to get around this restriction and should have a fix in place by the end of the week. You will not be able to send the exact same message to multiple people using a regular Internet Browser either.

We have launched version 1.2.0 of Tube Toolbox. The new version includes several new features such as the ability to auto-send Subscriptions, put random send delays for all bulk sending, enhanced logging which allows us to track errors better, the ability to share a video with unlimited number of people with 1 click.

 

We are in the final stages of testing the next version of Tube Toolbox. There will be some great features added and we are looking forward to getting them out to all our customers soon

Added option of random send delays, added retry feature for sending messages and friend requests. Added ability to hide the toolbar. Other general updates and bug fixes.

Added alphabetical sorting options, improved message sending module.