Relocation Complete

We Have Arrived
After a very intense week our relocation is complete. We are not totally settled in but our service should be getting back to normal over the next week. Thank you for your patience.

We did have one major hiccup during the move – although it was totally unrelated to the relocation. Our website provider (Microsoft Azure) decided to have a major meltdown which left us offline for a day. Purely coincidental but very annoying and we apologize if you were inconvenienced in any way.

The nice thing about the relocation is that none of our contact details change.

Efofex Software
PO Box 189 Claremont WA 6910
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Voicemail: 08 9200 5044
Fax: 08 9200 5674

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Coming Soon… Tell A Friend

Coming Soon… Tell A Friend
The more observant of you will have noticed a third new entry on the Help menu – Tell a Friend. This is an exciting new offering that:

  • Allows you to provide a discount to any new customers you introduce. Final details are still being worked out but the discount can be as high as 20% depending on the licenses purchased.
  • Allows you to earn a finder’s fee equivalent to the discount you provide your friend. We will credit your finder’s fee directly to your PayPal account OR you can choose to donate your fee to charity.

This means that you could easily cover the cost of your subscription or even make a little money. You also get to introduce the power of Efofex products to the people who need it.

Using the system is easy. Choose Tell a Friend from the Help menu and you will be taken to a page like this.

The blue link is customized for you and, if your friend uses it, they will get the discount and you get the finder’s fee. If you don’t want to send your own email, we can send one on your behalf.

We know that many of you love our products – you keep telling us. Help us spread the word and earn a little money on the side (or feel good about donating it to charity!)

More news soon.

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Coming Soon… Renew from the Software

Coming Soon… Renew From The Software

Another change we are making to address schools “losing” Efofex is that any product that is currently licensed through a subscription will offer the opportunity to renew directly from the software. Choose the Renew Subscription option from the Help menu (as you approach and pass expiry, the software will offer you other opportunities as well) and you will be directed to the renewal page on our website – with all of your details pre-filled. This will be a far more effective system than our current email based system.

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Coming Soon… Check and Update Contact Details Online

Coming Soon… Check and Update Contact Details Online
Schools are sometimes chaotic and we always have a number of schools whose subscriptions expire because the nominated contact person has left the school and no one ever gets the reminders. We are doing a number of things to address this. The first thing is that upcoming versions of our products will let you check your contact details and submit an update.

We are still putting the final touches on the system but it will look something like this…

In the Help menu, there are a few new entries.

If you select Check/Update Account Contact Details you will be sent to a web page where you can view the current details recorded in our registry and submit changes that you would like to be made. Hopefully this will mean that fewer schools become “detached”.

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Moving Times

Moving Times
After seventeen years being based in rural Western Australia, Efofex is on the move. Eventually we will end up in Perth (Claremont to be exact) but over the next year we will be maintaining a virtual office. Day to day interactions with us will not change much as we have been preparing the business to be mobile for nearly two years. The only real difference is that instead of responding in five minutes, it might be five hours before we can answer your email. Then again, it might still be five minutes. It depends on where we are at the time.

What won’t change is our traditional high level of service.

The most exciting aspect of the change is that we hope to be offering on-site training to lots more of our customers. Keep an eye on our news feed so you know when we might be in your area. We hope to put faces to lots of names that we have corresponded with for years!

See you soon!

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New Online FX Equation Tool


We have updated our FX Equation product page to include a new, online version of FX Equation that you can use to experiment with FX Equation technology without needing to download anything. If you have never played with FX Equation, it is worth a few seconds of your time to have a look. Let the tool generate a random example which you can then edit.

What many people do not realise is that FX Equation 5 has the ability to produce LaTex output that can be pasted into any tool that supports LaTex equations (including Moodle). FX Equation can take a simple equation like…

3×3+2×2/3+1/x=3y

and turn it into the following LaTex command

3{x}^{3}+{frac{2{x}^{2}}{3}}+{frac{1}{{x}}}=3{y}

You can also use FX Equation to create equations that can be pasted directly into a Word document to become native Word (or MathType) equations. This lets you use the incredibly productive FX Equation environment for a much wider selection of uses.

Take a look at the new FX Equation product page today.

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Windows 8.1 Problems


A recent change in Windows 8.1 is causing us some trouble. At this point in time, we have no information as to what has changed but it is causing random crashes in the graphing tool (FX Draw and FX Graph).

We recently repurposed our Windows 8.1 development machine in anticipation of a new development machine being delivered. Unfortunately, the new machine has been delayed so we are currently without a development machine to test this on. Hopefully this will be rectified within a week.

Short Term Fix

You can easily work around this issue:

1. Find FX Draw/FX Graph in your Start menu or Task Bar.
2. Right click on the program icon.
3. Choose Properties

4. On the Compatibility tab, choose Run this program in compatibility mode and choose Windows 8 or 7.

This will fix the problem until we release updated versions addressing this issue.

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FX Draw for the Mac

We presented a session focussing on FX Draw on the Mac and the MAWA conference on the weekend and it was the first time we have received considered feedback from teachers who have been USING FX Draw for the Mac.

Generally, the response was positive (actually it was more like “thankful” that we have finally got versions out for the Mac). A few small errors were pointed out and we have uploaded a new version today that addresses those issues.

What we have found is that there are a couple of wrinkles on the Mac that are not problems on Windows machines. We have had to institute a number of small workarounds that bypass these issues. Importantly, if you are using FX Draw on a Mac and find something that is misbehaving, PLEASE tell us. Often they are small things that can be fixed in a few minutes.

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New Logic Symbols for FX Equation


We have added the ability to create logic statements into FX Equation. FX Draw will include them in the next release.

All of the logic commands are preceded by _.

We have added another page to the equation options which allows you to select which symbol appears for each command. Select your desired symbols and don’t forget to push Set As Default.

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Setting Initial Preferences in FX Draw and FX Equation

FX Draw and FX Equation have both been upgraded to offer you the same Initial Preferences Selection interview we recently added to FX Graph. The interviews allow you to quickly set up FX Draw and FX Equation to produce graphics that look exactly the way you want them to.

The new versions are available for download now.

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