The MintFly team has just released a major update to our system. We have improved performance to mobile phones by over 100%. If you haven’t done so in a while, please take a chance to log in and check it out!
-Bob
For all you international MintFly users; we are now displaying whatever language you use in SalesForce in MintFly. Please leave us feedback on how it looks!
-Bob
Salesforce.com’s login screen allows you to bookmark your account with your username and password in the URL and when used
We decided to emulate the same functionality. As long as you are using “https” in the URL, your password is still safe being transmitted over the internet. You just need to take extra precaution that no one has access to your iPhone because this one link will log you into your account directly. Let’s try it out…
First, open iPhone Safari and navigate to mintfly.com (stay on the login page)
Click the “+” to create a bookmark
Click “Add Bookmark”
Accept the default bookmark (we can’t edit the url yet) by tapping “Done”
Open your bookmarks by clicking on the book link at the bottom of the screen
When viewing your list of bookmarks, click the “Edit” button at the bottom of the screen
Now tap the name “MintFly.com” or the “>” symbol to edit the urls (final step)
The original url should be “https://mintfly.com/app/login.php” and you will want to add your username and password (even token if you want) to this url. You will need to type this at the end of the URL:
?un=username@salesforce.com&pw=mypassword123
Replace “joe@salesforce.com” with your username and replace “mypassword123″ with your password (add token if you did not grant network access).
Your new url should look like this:
https://mintfly.com/app/login.php?un=username@salesforce.com&pw=mypassword123
Tap the “Done” button and your bookmark will now log you in directly!
Just a quick tip to save yourself a few taps of the old iPhone: Home Screen Bookmark.
This image shows the MintFly logo on my iPhone’s home screen. How did I do that you ask?! Why do I have so many games?! The MBTA gets delayed a bunch and sometimes I have to give my brain a rest from MintFly.
(oh, how did I take a screenshot? here is a quick explanation of that. )
This takes 15 seconds and will save you more than that. Next time you login to MintFly, press the bookmark button at the bottom of the screen:
All the details will be filled in for you, complete with a pretty little home screen icon in Web-2.0 style.
The icon also makes for a good justification to your boss that your iPhone data plan should be expensed. See, we use this thing for work… mostly… sometimes.
Seth Godin writes one of my favorite blogs I have in NewsFire. Today’s post was simply a graph image with two axis, one with opposite points labeled generous and selfish, the other with angry and calm. The desirable location for any sane individual on this graph is he top right, “busy, happy & prosperous”.
One problem: Busy and calm are on the same side of the same axis. This graph feels like it needs another dimension: time. The 3rd dimension of time would reveal, once the graph was rotated:
As of today, MintFly.com Professional (our full featured version) is ad-supported, and therefore, FREE to everyone. This means anyone can use MintFly.com to access virtually all of Salesforce.com without a monthly subscription fee.
Why is MintFly.com suddenly free?
Last year over 10% of MintFy.com’s free users upgraded to our professional edition. We have seen a big drop in upgrades in January. We believe that MintFly offers the best feature combination and so the reason for the drop in upgrades must be the doom and gloom news about the global economy.
As a good neighbor in the online business community, we would like to make things easier for you. We plan to keep MintFly free (ad-supported) until the Dow Jones Composite Index returns to 10k.
Want to search, see, call your contacts, map your accounts, and update opportunities from your iPhone? Yes, we can. ;-)
To go along with the updated pricing we have decided to give away one 1-year MintFly Pro license per month.
How to enter? Every time you login to MintFly you are entered into the drawing. On Jan 31st I will pull a list of all logins, sort randomly, and pick the person on the top of the list. You could be it… you just have to login to your Salesforce.com account via MintFly!
We have changed the pricing model and updated our PayPal payment options. You can now subscribe on a month-to-month basis for MintFly.com. This way there’s less of a commitment even though we are taking a hit on the processing fees.
Do you have a support organization that would like a nice new customer portal? We are working on a streamlined customer portal option that is integrated 100% with Salesforce.com which allows your customers to manage cases, converse in forums, and submit product ideas. Would you like to be part of the beta? Send us an email: mintflysupport@mintfly.com
We made an update to the “Today View” to allow easy visibility into your future and past events. You can now move to “yesterday” and “tomorrow” ( or “tomorrow” five times ). There is ALSO the ability to show a full month, meaning you can easily check your schedule in the next week or two weeks. I just recorded a quick Jing video of the feature, check it out!
Click here to watch the video.
It was one of those things that you can’t quite prioritize over making actual features for the product: getting your official Apple iPhone WebApps listing page online.
But when it’s done, it’s an Apple fan-boy dream to see your product on apple.com:
