UCM: New version 1.1. online

Today we've uploaded a new version of our Universal Contact Manager.
It fixes all of the reported issues and provides new features:

• Faster contact search by combining native datastore queries and in-memory filtering/sorting
• Improved paging through large lists of contacts
• Paging info will be displayed once available
• Page slider can be used to go to any result page directly
• An overlay indicates the first and last item on the page according to the sort order
• Smart caching of paging info
• Automatic retry when Google servers are temporarily not available
• Layout and usability improvements
• Dynamic info panel shows context sensitive data
• Large and resizable notes editor for contacts
• Location panel to show the contacts addresses
• Group history
• Groups can be selected on the left hand side
• Address editor provides validation link
• You can e.g. enter only street and city of a contact and click on "validate" to autocomplete the address info
• Validated addresses show up in the location info panel and can be filtered by type

UCM: Beta period extended

We received a lot of very useful bug reports. Thanks to all of you reporting issues!
Now it is time to fix some bugs and improve the overall stability of the app.
We will extend the free beta until the end of the year to be able to provide a stable solution once we remove the beta tag.
We are currently mainly working on improving the performance of the contact queries to be able to provide better paging, overall speed improvements and smart query caching.
This is a very tricky task due to the nature of app engine, but we are confident to be successful ;-)