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Why are my office documents so big????

  Will the angle make me weigh less? 
  Originally uploaded by destinelee

Here is an interesting article about someone wondering why are his PowerPoint document so big and how to solve that!
You can read the answer but it is not easy to reduce the size of a Powerpoint document!
The real answer is to use a share folder (and SteekR of course!).
There are rules in our Internet world:

• Office document size will still increase  in the futur due to Microsoft technology!
• Picture file size will still increase in the futur due to the camera pixel definition war!
• Video file size will still increase in the futur due to the HD war!

So you better use a SteekR account soon!

Steek is our only name!

In order to be more clearly identified in International market, we will no more use "Agematis" and we will only operate under the name of "Steek" like all our product portfolio:

• SteekR: online sharing and streaming of content
• SteekUP: simple carefree backup

Now Steek is the name of our company as well as our brand.

Good review about SteekR in the most famous blog in Brazil

A good review (in Portuguese!) about SteekR here from Tiago Doria.

Tiago Doria has more than 40 thousand readers of his blog each day and is inside of one of the biggest portals in Brazil : iG.

Tiago emphasises on 3 main aspects of SteekR:

1. The Creative Common directory that appears in the new beta release of SteekR. This directory is available to all customers and gives direct access to Creative Common licenced photos, musics and mp3. There are 2 ideas for us behind this feature in the future: allow customers to share Creative Common files with all the SteekR community.
   But we see also this idea as a way to allow our partners to give access to exclusive contents to their customers...
2. The SteekR drive feature that allows our customers to use their SteekR space as a virtual Drive on their PC or Mac.
3. And finally Tiago puts us in front of one of our competitor and it is always nice to be leader...

The SteekR blog in Brazilian is here.

More about SteekR V2

The new version of SteekR, that we call V2, is still in beta (http://beta.steekr.com/)

We have developed this new version to try to simplify everything and primarily to improve the usability of SteekR. All the improvements we have included are driven by the feedback of a significant number  of our (more than one million) customers.

The general design of the main page of SteekR has been modified in order to provide more room for the files and also to put all the main functions together:
V1:
V2 beta: 

For example the menu bar is now more explicit: easy functions are clearly labeled with more easily understood icons:

V1:

V2 beta:

Sharing files is much more faster and easier to remember with the new V2 beta. The sharing window with V2 beta is displayed on top of the page without any page reload like with version V1. More options are offered to the user: An information reminder ("Share the selected files with friends or create a sharing widget"), the possibility to add title, direct access to permalink and the style of the share (folder or slideshow). We definitely think that sharing is one of the main feature of SteekR and the usage will be increased with the new functionnality.

V1:

V2 beta:

We have also improved the usability of the player. The new player is more readable and easy to use. Along with sharing, we also believe that streaming is also a major feature of SteekR and deserved improvement:

V1:

V2 beta:

Some new features are also added inside this new version like the "Create a widget" feature that allow the SteekR user to display his file selection on a website or a blog.

V2 beta:

Lastest information: This version V2 will be ready when it's done ;-)

Happy new year!

The Steek team wishes you a happy new year!

We would like to thank you, our customers (more than 1.000.000!) who trust us daily and store, share and play your music, pictures, videos or other files.

We'll keep listening to you and we'll put all our energy and know-how delivering an even better Steek service in 2008.

Netvibes Drive

Paris, 12 December 2007 - Press release

Agematis to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of users.

Agematis, provider of online data storage and sharing solutions , and Netvibes, pioneer of the personalized banner page, have combined their expertise to offer the users of Netvibes an online file storage and sharing service. Fully integrated in the new version of the Netvibes site, the service will be available on the personalized pages of Netvibes users as well as in  Netvibes universes.

LeWeb3 live !

If you want to see everything about Leweb3 you can go on http://leweb3.steekr.com !

steekR v2

We will launch steekR v2 for LeWeb3 the 11h december.
Here is a teasing before the event next week ...

Important message from the steekUP team

The AVG antivirus technical support department just informed us that one of its recent automatic updates triggered a faulty virus detection on the "libcurl.dll" file in use for the st software (Update N°269.16.10 released on November 28 2007).

The last update for the AVG 7.5 antivirus software (N°269.16.10/1160 - November 30 2007) solves this faulty detection.

In the case you encountered this false virus detection, indicating the "libcurl.dll" file as contaminated by the NTW2434 virus, please follow the following steps to get your steekUP software running back again :

Plase make sure that you have upgraded your AVG antivirus software with the last update (right click on the AVG icon that appears on the system tray, and select "Check for updates").

1 - Either the "libcurl.dll" file has already been placed in the virus vault :

- open the AVG virus vault (System tray --> Right click on the AVG icon --> Launch AVG Test Center --> Virus vault)
  - Select the "libcurl.dll" file.
  - Right click on the file > Restore File(s)

2 - If the file has already been healed by AVG 7.5 :

Please uninstall the steekUP software and run a new setup.
  You can download the last setup for your software here : http://www.steekup.com/installer/steekUP_setup.exe

Please accept our apologies for the disturbance.

Best regards.

The steekUP Team

Visit Steek Lab

Let's have a visit in Steek Lab based in Bordeaux (France) ! (here for the direct steekR link).