Tag: user interface

Wait, what… what does that even mean?!

“Retinafied?!” What kind of a word is that?

Well, it all comes down to all these new shiny gadgets sporting super high-resolution displays… For instance:

• iPhone 5S with 1136 x 640 pixels on a mere 4″ screen,
• Samsung Galaxy S5 with 1920 x 1080 pixels on a 5.1″ screen,
• iPad Mini with 2048 x 1536 pixels on a 7.9″ screen,
• and last but not least, MacBook Pro Retina with 2880 x 1800 pixels on a 15″ screen.

All of these new devices have got so many pixels that modern web apps (such as Spin Rewriter) need to be redesigned and updated to take full advantage of these high-resolution screens.

Imagine the Spin Rewriter logo, this one right here:

Spin Rewriter logo – standard definition

When you’re looking at it on your laptop, it’s probably just over 2 inches (6 cm) wide and about an inch (2.5 cm) tall, depending on the size of your laptop. Back in 2011 when it was created, it took about 220 x 80 pixels to fill up this space so our logo is 220 x 80 pixels big. This comes out to 17,000 pixels.

Nowadays, devices can display much more pixels on the same 2-by-1 inch area. 4 times as much, in fact! This means we can make the logo look much MUCH sharper. So we redesigned it! It’s now 440 x 160 pixels big, which comes out to roughly 68,000 pixels which is four times as many as 17,000.

Would you like to see the difference? Here it comes…

Spin Rewriter logo – standard definition vs Retina high definition

Just look at how much sharper the font is! And the squiggly lines on the image are much more pleasant-looking, too.

As you know, we’re always working hard to make sure you get an amazing experience out of using Spin Rewriter… This means we need to make sure the quality of our spun articles is unparalleled, and it also means that we need to make sure our web application is on the cutting-edge of progress. And we’re more than happy to do this for you! 😉

Oh, and happy 4th of July to all our American friends tomorrow!

I admit it’s been a little while since I wrote my last post here. However, despite the fact that it’s summer time, I wasn’t on vacation. 😉

As you probably already know, my team and I are working hard on the next version of Spin Rewriter, the Spin Rewriter 4.0. Everything should be finished by the end of September, and I’m sooo excited to show it to you! 😀

In the meantime, we’ve also made some smaller changes. Just last month we updated the UI (user interface). And now, we’ve also optimized the spinning process to make Spin Rewriter even faster. To be exact, 17.4% faster. We are aware of the fact that Spin Rewriter is mostly used by SEO professionals and when it comes to doing business, every second counts. Feel free to spin one article right away to see the speed improvement for yourself.

We’ve already received some more-than-positive feedback, both from our in-house testers and our “out in the wild” users. We’d love to hear your opinion as well. 😉

We literally just rolled out the updated Spin Rewriter user interface a couple of minutes ago … and now we’re clicking through every last part of Spin Rewriter’s options just to make sure everything runs smoothly on our productions servers as well.

The feedback we’ve been getting from our in-house testers has been pretty amazing — and I sure hope you like our new look, too! 😉

In a week or two, we’ll be rolling out an even cleaner user interface — this means you’ll be able to do your daily spinning even faster, and even more effortlessly.

This interface update will also come with larger, friendlier, easier-to-read fonts.

Our in-house tests are looking very VERY promising, and I’m sure you’re going to love the update. 😉

We’ve just introduced another cool new update of Spin Rewriter’s user interface.

You have probably already noticed that when you’re looking at spun articles inside your Archive, or checking out the list of your subscription payments, all times are reported in the EST timezone.

In other words, if you come from the UK and you just finished working on an article at 8 PM your local time, the Archive simply says “3 PM EST” next to your article.

Bottom line, we have updated the reporting system which means that all reported times (and dates) are now converted to your local time. If you finish your work at 8:15 PM local time, the Archive will say 8:15 PM, no matter where on the world you are.

We hope this makes it even easier to use Spin Rewriter. 😉