Smart Tiles (previously known as Tiles for Outlook) is a tool allowing custom tiles creation, including live tiles for various internet services, for your calendars, or static tiles for your favorite apps and websites.
🚧 BETA VERSION - DISCLAIMER 🚧
Please note that the product is available as a closed beta as of now and will be publicly available soon!
Known bugs:
• Importing existing tiles might fail. This issue is being investigated.
• All tiles are updated (even static ones) which could lead to higher memory usage (when the background task runs)
• Sources selection doesn't work properly if you come back to the Sources screen (after all, it's a beta version ;-) )
• When activating a tile, using the ""back"" key on mobile will show a black screen (which is in fact Smart Tiles itself), you can press back again to go back to your start screen
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This release includes many bug fixes, but also many new features; here are some of them:
• Create a live tile to keep an eye on your favorite crypto coins (source : Cryptocompare.com)
• Display a cool quote from forismatic.com
• Create custom applications tiles (even transparent ones) if squares are not your thing.
• Custom patterns to replace recuring text by whatever text you want
• Totally new design
• Faster, better, easier to use
• Coming soon: launch any Win32 (exe) application from a custom tile.
• Coming soon: launch any app without displaying Smart Tiles launch screen (being tested right now).
Features:
• Automated bug report has been improved to help solving (rare!) users issues
• The ""about"" screen allows to switch to another language
• Birthday tile!
• Option to modify the birthdays associated picture (on supported languages)
• Lockscreen support (shows the next 3 events if configured in the system options)
• Italian and Spanish languages (sorry, the description here is still only in French / English, translation will come soon)
• Birthdays options:
o Retrieve birthdays from your contacts list
o Display the age of your contacts so you won't have to calculate
o Customize the birthday ""cake picture""
o Easily access contact options the day of their anniversary so you won't have to go through your contact list
• Calendar tile
o Show a whole month in a single tile with markers for events and anniversaries
o Use the same advanced customization options already available for the previous tile modes (when applicable)
• Background tasks status and information
• Multi-calendar tiles creation
• Predefined themes (two available yet, but more will be added soon)
• Customizable colors to match you mood
• Customizable background
• Duplicated events filtering
• Graphical timeline to see at a glance when your events take place
• Real time preview of your tile
• Tile transparency support
• Outlook Calendar tiles replacement (launches Outlook when clicked).