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lynda.com iPhone App version 1.0.2 now available

Published by | Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
course details screen

lynda.com Course Details screen.

The latest version of the free lynda.com iPhone App, version 1.0.2, is now available for download. It has iPad support, full screen scrolling on course detail screens, and improves general app stabilization.

If you have a previous version of the lynda.com iPhone App installed, open the App Store app on your iPhone or iPod touch, and click on the Updates icon. It should be listed as an available update in the App Store.

If you haven’t installed the lynda.com iPhone App yet, head over to our lynda.com iPhone App page and click on the Download from the App Store button. It will take you directly to the lynda.com iPhone App page on iTunes.

New lynda.com site feature: Improved Search

Published by | Friday, March 19th, 2010

Our improved site search feature makes it easier than ever to find the video training you are looking for. Begin by typing a term into the search bar. Press Enter or Return, or click the search button. Our search engine looks through every course name, movie name, description, and transcript to find your search term. By default, search results are sorted by movie name. Narrow down the list of movies by clicking filter terms under the Category, Software, Vendor, and Author headings.

Under each heading, you will see terms listed in order of how many matches there are. Click on view more to see a full list of results, and click on any term to narrow down your results. You can then further refine your results by clicking on another term, or if you are looking for results from a particular year, you can click on an option under Release Year. You can also choose Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and/or Appropriate for All under Learning Level. Remove any filter by clicking on the X next to it.

You also have the option of only showing results for courses with a DVD version or with Closed Captioning, indicated by the icons next to the movie name. Click any of the column headings to sort the results by that heading, or use the sort by drop-down menu. If you’re currently signed in to your account, clicking a movie name will immediately open and play the movie. Click on the Courses tab to display search results by course name, or click on the Site tab to show results for other lynda.com pages, such as author bios and blog entries. We hope the improved search function enhances your learning experience at lynda.com.

Introducing the new lynda.com iPhone App!

Published by | Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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You’ve always been able to access the lynda.com Online Training Library® anytime, anywhere. Now you can access your learning on the go with the new, free lynda.com iPhone App, featuring high and low video quality for optimal streaming no matter what your connection.

lynda.com members: You have access to your account just as you do on your computer. Just log in and start learning! Once logged in, you’ll see the most recent video you watched, whether you watched it on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or on your computer’s web browser. Just pick up where you last left off.

We look forward to hearing what you think!

New lynda.com site feature: Bookmarks

Published by | Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The new Bookmarks feature in the Online Training Library® lets you mark and tag courses, chapters, individual video tutorials, or even specific points in a video in order to find them again later. Click on Bookmarks in the My Training menu to see all the items you’ve bookmarked.

There are options here to view, sort, edit, and navigate your bookmarks. There is now a bookmark icon next to course titles, chapter titles, and individual movie names. Simply click on the bookmark icon once to mark any of these items, and the icon fills in to show that it has been activated. (more…)

You asked for it: lynda.com Monthly Premium subscription option available

Published by | Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This week, we’re happy to announce a new subscription option that you’ve long been asking for: Premium access to our Online Training Library® courses on a monthly basis. The new Monthly Premium account is $37.50 a month, and includes access to the same exercise files that the course instructor uses in each lesson. Until now, only Annual Premium accounts had access to exercise files. Watch our The advantage of exercise files video below to find out more:


Another you-asked-for-it new feature: lynda.com Flash Beta Player

Published by | Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

We’re in the process of many new website and delivery enhancements right now. So many members have requested a non-QuickTime-based player that we’ve been hard at work, making it happen! The Flash player is completed and live on the site in beta test form, but we are still in the process of converting our 40,000+ movies to Flash, so not all courses are working with the new Flash Beta Player yet. For this reason, it’s not available as an over-all preference (accessible via My Training > Preferences), but it’s very easy to set it up as the preference for a particular course.

Flash Beta Player

The lynda.com Flash Beta Player

The lynda.com Flash Beta Player has the same look, feel, and functionality as the lynda.com QuickTime Beta Player, with an added bonus: the maximize this window button. Click to make the player fill your monitor window. When maximized, the button turns into a minimize this window button that when clicked, brings the player back to standard size.

Flash Beta Player

Choosing the Flash Beta Player as a course preference.

To access the lynda.com Flash Beta Player for a particular course, click on the Course Preferences tab, choose Flash Beta Player, and then click on apply. This only changes the preferences for this course. For now, the Flash Beta Player is not available as the default player for all courses, but will be once all the movies in the library are converted; due for completion in December 2009. And yes, a WMV player is in the works too, but not ready for launch just yet.

lynda.com courses now compatible with the iPhone

Published by | Monday, November 2nd, 2009

lynda.com on the iphoneYou asked for it, and it’s finally here: lynda.com videos are now iPhone and iPod Touch compatible.

All of our 2009 courses are already iPhone watchable, and we’ve got numerous servers munching away on 2008 courses, which will be available soon. And yes, we even have an iPhone app in the works, with a planned launch in early 2010.

Let us know what you think!

New feature: Course tabs make browsing, searching, and finding what you want simpler

Published by | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
The new course tabs at lynda.com.

The new course tabs at lynda.com.

Notice something new on the lynda.com course pages? Each course details page in the Online Training Library® is now organized in to a series of tabs: Table of Contents, Description, Exercise Files, Author, and Course Preferences. Our goal with this new feature is to make it much simpler and faster for you to browse, search for, and find the course information you’re looking for.

Want to use them to their full potential? Watch our lynda.com Online Training Library® Course Tabs: How They Work video.