We’ve released a new version of Spheres today with a couple of key features that we hope will help you more easily share Spheres with your colleagues.
Pending Contacts
If you look in your My Contacts list you will see a new category in there called, Pending.Pending contacts are folks you have invited who have not yet installed Spheres. From this list you can resend invites or send your pending contacts an email to remind them that you’d like to collaborate with them in Spheres. You can also remove people from your pending contacts if you no longer want to see them in your list.
Live Search & Invite Queuing
In addition to the pending contacts list, we have added a few things to the invite process from within a sphere to help grease the wheels of collaboration. We added a live search of your contacts’ email addresses so as you start typing the email of an individual you would like to invite, Spheres will recommend people who match your typing.
We also added the queuing of invitations to a sphere for people who are not Spheres users. So if you try to invite someone to your Sphere, but they need to sign up for a Spheres account first, they will now be automatically added to your Sphere as soon they sign up for an account.
There have been several other behind-the-scenes improvements that we hope will make Spheres perform better and become more easy for you to share as you set up your workspaces.
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We’re announcing a new release of Spheres today, and in addition to that we have several other new things to discuss with you as well. First things first: let’s take a look at the new features and enhancements now available to you in this update.
New File Menu & Navigation
When you update to version 0.9.18.0, you’ll see that Spheres has a new header, which includes a colorful new icon (more on that later), a completely redesigned file menu, and some changes to how things are organized up top.
From the new File Menu, you have quick access to all of the core features Spheres offers, from wherever you are in the application. We’ve also added a new list of links for your convenience where you can go to manage your Intuit account, edit your Profile and Preferences, visit our new Help Desk to browse our FAQs and user forums, submit new feature requests, and contact us directly for support.
Invite Contacts via Gmail
We want to make adding contacts as easy as possible, so you can quickly get Spheres set up and running with the people you work with. Not only have we made improvements to how you add contacts throughout the application, if you’re a Gmail user, you can simply login to Gmail from within Spheres, browse through your Google contacts, and select the people you’d like to collaborate with.
Not to mention this new feature allows you to more easily take advantage of our referral rewards program and scoop up those Amazon Gift Cards we’re giving away. But, if you don’t happen to be a heavy Gmail user, that’s okay. You can still enter e-mail addresses manually, and we’ve even made some improvements there as well. However, we are planning to link with more email services in future releases, so why don’t you let us know which of them you’d appreciate most. As always, we’re listening.
What We Already Had, Only Better.
In addition to the new features we make available with every release, we’re continually looking for ways we can improve upon the features we already have. One improvement included in this release are new “new” buttons, thoughtfully placed around the application, 
that let you create new spheres and add new contacts when and where it makes sense to do so, without having to hunt for those features in the file menu. (We admit, they were a bit hidden before). There’s also a few other small enhancements that we’ve made but why don’t you grab the latest update (if you haven’t already) and see for yourself. 
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