We are very excited to be announcing the release of Viira 3.0! The latest version contains a lot of productivity enhancements that many of you have requested and we are very happy to be bringing all these new capabilities right at your fingertips.

Here is what’s new in Viira 3.0:

• In-Basket: Designed specifically for the collection phase of Getting Things Done, Viira’s In-Basket provides a convenient place to quickly enter a number of tasks, ideas and reminders. All tasks, native tasks, email and SMS tasks that have not been assigned a project, context or day will appear in the In-Basket.
• Search. Quickly find the task that you were looking from Viira’s Tasks View with Viira’s fast search.
• Reminders. Many of you have asked for the ability to add a reminder to a particular task, and we are happy to bring this feature to you! Although David Allen warns against relying too heavily on reminders in your GTD system, if used properly they can be a powerful ogranizational tool.
• BlackBerry Tasks integration: Viira loads all tasks from your BlackBerry’s native Tasks application in the In-Basket from where you can further assign then to a project, context or day.
• Hide Completed. Hide all completed tasks and focus on what remains to get done. Hide completed is available from all of Viira’s views and all your completed tasks will appear once again when you select “Show Completed”.
• Quick new project/context creation: Have you ever started entering a task only to realise that the project or context you want to classify it under has not been created yet? With Viira 3 you can quickly create a new project or context right from the new task editor without having to switch views!
• And more! Viira 3.0 contains a number of other smaller enhancements, too numerous to list here.

So grab the free trial and see for yourself what Viira 3.0 can do! You can download the Viira 3.0 free trial from the Viira download page or by pointing your BlackBerry’s browser to our mobile site www.kartamobile.com/bb.

For all of you using Viira 2, Viira 3 was designed to run alongside Viira 2 so that you can check out the free trial before committing to the new version. Viira 3 will also import your Viira 2 data. Buyers of Viira 2 are also eligible to upgrade for a special upgrade price of only $19.99.

Viira 3 is compatible with all modern BlackBerry devices all the way back to OS 4.6.

In this week’s update to the Viira Outlook Suite we have added one enhancements and a couple of bug fixes:

• 24 hr Time Format: for those of you using the Viira Outlook Suite in countries where time is usually displayed in 24 hour time format (e.g. 15:30) the Viira Outlook Suite BlackBerry client now automatically detects if your BlackBerry is set up to use 24 hour time format and displays your appointments’ start and end times accordingly.
• Outlook plugin task date bug fix. In certain European locales the Outlook plugin’s date extraction algorithm failed to correctly interpret the date of a task, resulting in day tasks created in the BlackBerry client appear without a date in the Outlook plugin. This problem is now fixed.
• Improved stability. Unde certain rare circumstances, deleting a task in the Outlook plugin produced an exception. Our development team addressed and fixed the issue.

You can download version 1.1.04 from the Viira Outlook Suite download page. The BlackBerry client can be downloaded OTA by pointing your BlackBerry to our mobile site.