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If you are planning to be at the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience meeting this weekend in San Francisco, stop by the Millisecond exhibitor booth with any questions or ideas you have about Inquisit, or just to say hello.
We'll have chocolate on hand for those needing a quick boost of energy. And of course, we'll have squishy brain toys to help relieve conference-induced stress. These are especially helpful to have while you give your presentation. 
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We've released yet another update to Inquisit 3 with some great new features and a bunch of bug fixes, almost all of which were prompted by feedback from our user community.
Perhaps the biggest new feature is the ability to launch Inquisit web scripts using Java Web Start. This provides a friendlier download experience for Firefox users who have the java runtime installed on their computer (those without java can still use the plugin). For now, the java option is off by default so as not to change the behavior of experiments in progress, but you can easily turn it on using the registration wizard.
Another cool new feature - Inquisit now allows participants to save their data file if for some reason Inquisit can not access the location specified in the script. This allows you to easily save your data if, for example, the paricipant's computer loses network connectivity, or your data file share computer is mistakenly rebooted in the the middle of data collection. Thanks to "Blackadder" for his impassioned plea and smart design ideas.
See the release notes for a more detailed list of features.
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This release contains numerous fixes for bugs that have reported in our forums and via email, along with a few minor features. If you're using Inquisit 3, you should pick up this update at your earliest convenience. See the release notes for some of the fixes that are in this release.
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If you are heading to Albuquerque next week for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, then drop by the Millisecond Software booth, say hello, pick up a free Inquisit squishy brain, and take a look at Inquisit 3.
-Sean
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We've just released Inquisit 3.0.1.0 to the web. This is a free update with some great new features as well as some important bug fixes.
The highlight of this release is support for recording spoken responses and the ability to automatically transcribe the recorded responses using the speech recognition engine. It also has fixes for just about all of the bugs reported in the forums to date.
For the complete list of changes, see the release notes.
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Update: this position is now filled. Thanks to those of you who responded.
Interested in attending the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience conference this year but short on funds?
We're looking for a graduate student who is friendly, articulate, and knowledgeable about Inquisit to work in the Millisecond vendor both at the 2008 Society for Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting in San Francisco from April 12-16th. Responsibilities include answering questions, running demonstrations, and handing out free goodies to conference attendees who stop by the booth.
In exchange for working in our booth, we'll cover your flight and hotel expenses, and we'll give you a free Inquisit 3 Desktop license. We'll also work in some free time at the conference so you can attend talks and poster sessions.
If you are interested, send a resume/vita to seandr at millisecond dot com.
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If you have recently purchased Inquisit 2 licenses, we are offering a special discount that allows you to exchange those licenses for Inquisit 3 license for the difference in cost. Simply tell us how many version 3 licenses you wish to purchase, and we'll subtract the full cost of your version 2 licenses from the total.
This offer applies to any version 2 licenses purchased on or after June 1, 2007, and it remains in effect until March 1, 2008, after which all version 2 licenses can be upgraded at the normal rate.
To take advantage of this offer, send an email to sales at millisecond dot com stating which licenses you'd like to exchange. To determine whether your purchase meets the cutoff date, login to your account to view your entire purchase history.
Cheers,
Sean
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Millisecond is proud to announce the release of Inquisit 3. This is a major new release that greatly expands the range of research Inquisit can do while remaining as easy to use as ever. Take advantage of our free trial and check it out for yourself.
Inquisit 3 Web Edition includes a number of new licensing options, including time-limited licenses that allow you save money by using Inquisit 3 Web Edition on a per-project basis.
You may have noticed that we've updated milllisecond.com with a new look and feel. We've also reorganized things a bit, added some new content, and made some improvements to the "My Account" area.
We hope you enjoy the new product and the new web site!
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The tireless elves at Millisecond have been working overtime on a Vista-compatible update for Inquisit 2.0, and with today's release of version 2.0.61004.5, their hard work is complete.
As some of you already know, most of the compatibility issues were in the Inquisit installer program rather than the application itself. However, we did make some minor changes to the parallel port and graphics functionality.
Note - Inquisit relies on DirectDraw, which does not work on graphics cards that are not designed for Vista. Unless your computer shipped with Vista, or you recently updated the graphics card, your card is probably not Vista compatible. Consult your card manufacturer for a defnitive answer.
Another note - Past experience says that with each new version of Windows, there will initially be some bugs in the wave of new graphics drivers that follow. Once manufacturers have had a chance to update their new drivers, the bugs become increasingly rare. So keep an eye out, and let us know if anything on the screen doesn't look right.
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We often get email from new Inquisit customers looking to hire someone who can whip up some scripts for them in short order. We also get the occassionaly email from a student looking to earn some money writing scripts. To help these customers find each other, we've a new Inquisit Help Wanted forum where you can post your help wanted ads or advertise your programming services.
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The good folks at Millisecond Software have created a new service that allows you to host your web experiments on the millisecond.com web servers. Publishing an experiment on millisecond.com is a simple matter of clicking through our user friendly wizard. No need to worry about administering your own server, we do it for you. Best of all, the new service is free to web license holders. And of course, we will continue to support do-it-yourselfers who wish to host experiments on their own servers.
For more information, see the following web page: http://www.millisecond.com/help/current/html/howto/howtoweb.htm
If you have a web license, just log in and go to the "Register Inquisit Web Scripts" page (http://www.millisecond.com/user/webscripts.aspx) and click the "Register New Script" link.
-Sean
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We are pleased to announce version 2.0.61004, the latest update to Inquisit. This update was released in October and is free to Inquisit 2.x license holders. You can download it from our web site at http://www.millisecond.com/download.aspx.
The update contains the following features and bug fixes:
* Inquisit Web Edition now supports a new Microsoft technology called ClickOnce for running web experiments from Internet Explorer. A key advantage of ClickOnce is that it allows users who are not logged in as an Administrator to run Inquisit web experiments on their machine.
* Inquisit Web Edition now supports loading scripts from protected web sites that require user authentication.
* We've added two new random selection methods, "replacenorepeat" and "noreplacenorepeat", that randomly select with and without replacement, respectively, and that guarantee no item will be selected twice in a row.
* The picture element has a new command called "transparentcolor" that renders any pixels in the picture matching that color as transparent.
* The video element now supports audio-only media files such as mp3.
* We've also fixed bugs in the autocomplete feature in the editor, the batch element, and many more.
Hope you are enjoying the New Year,
Sean
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With snowboarding season coming to a close, we've been once again hard at work on Inquisit. The result is perhaps the biggest free update to Inquisit we've ever released. With this release you can run Inquisit Web Edition with Mozilla browsers such as Netscape and Firefox. You can present QuickTime movies and Flash animations in your script. You can specifiy sizes for all visually presented stimuli in terms of pixels, points, percentages, or centimeters. You can present Arabic and Hebrew text. We even got a new logo.
We've also overhauled our documentation, adding new topics, tutorials, and numerous example snippets, making it easier than ever to learn how to write Inquisit scripts.
There's much more detailed in our release notes. If you are considering purchasing Inquisit 2.0, now is the time!
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By popular demand, we've created some new samples scripts for commonly used tasks.
There are two new IAT scripts modeled after the IAT as administered on the project implicit web site. One sample presents only text stimuli, and the other presents both pictures and text. The samples take advantage of new features in Inquisit 2.0.60616.0, including the ability to specify stimulus size as a percentage of screen size so that proportions are maintained across different display resolutions, a handy feature for web research. See a demo of the Picture IAT here.
We've also created an overview sample that walks through a number of cool Inquisit features, including support for QuickTime and Flash content, branching and looping, performance feedback, and more.
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We're pleased to announce the release of Inquisit version 2.0.51026.0. The big new feature in this update is the Inquisit data service:
- Inquisit Web Edition now has the ability to post data files to the millisecond.com web server where you can login and download them from our web site. No more server configuration required. This provides a simple, reliable, and secure method for transmitting data remotely over the internet. This is now the default for saving data with Inquisit Web Edition. To leverage this new data service, simply remove the file command from the <data> element in your script.
- The Millisecond web site now has a secure page from which you can download data files saved to our web server. To retrieve your data, simply browse to the Millisecond home page, click the "Account" menu, and select "Inquisit Web Data Files". This will take you to our new page at http://www.millisecond.com/user/datafiles.aspx, where you can download files individually or as a single aggregate file.
See our release notes for more features and bug fixes.
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