I'm not a big fan of Flash, but I've had to develop in it, and I know that every little bit helps, so when I saw this morning that they had an upgrade, and it's even the hardware accelerated version that should decode H.264 in hardware, but that's not a lot of what I do, so maybe it's not all that great to get excited about it. Still... it's at least fixing security holes... So I got it.
I got a tweet today saying that Transmit 4.1.2 is out with a nifty URL that started Transmit, and initiated the auto-update. Pretty slick. The big changes to this release are the fixing of the new Transmit Disk feature - sans MacFUSE, for the 64-bit kernel machines. Every time I use it, I'm amazed at the way it works. Seamless, graceful, amazing.
This morning I got a tweet about a new beta of the IM client I use every day: Adium 1.4b19. There are a lot of little things that have been fixed, and several localizations have been updated. Nice stuff. I wasn't aware that they had added twitter support to Adium, but it makes perfect sense as the all-purpose instant messaging client. Even better.
Looks like Google Chrome dev has a few more bugs fixed, but the blog of the release notes is a little sketchy about what the exact nature of these bugs are. So I take it on faith that I'm going to like these changes, and install the update. Can't do a lot else.
I got a tweet today saying that Acorn 2.5 was out, and it appears to have a bunch of new features including layers. Very slick. Maybe Gus is giving Photoshop a run for it's money! Wouldn't that be a hoot! Anyway, it's a great graphics editor from a really nice indie Mac developer, so I had to update.
Spam. Social Engineering. Everything old is new again.
I've received a lot of new spam today - all with HTML attachments that I'm supposed to be dumb enough to actually click on. They are all about one thing or another. I'm either getting money, or it's something about the softball team, but all try to look like something I'd get - but they all fail to realize that I've seen how this all works, and I'm not about to click on anything I don't know the source of.
What continues to amaze me is the fact that they send this at all. They must get people clicking on them because they send them. So many times...
I just wish I could put my name on some hacker's list that says "Don't even bother...", but then they'd probably just make that the one list they'd try harder on.
Sigh...
This morning I checked and Google Chrome dev 7.0.517.5 was out so I updated to see what the new features were. I have to say, it's nice to see that they are getting more Mac-like, and I hope it's a good sign. There has been a lot of grief in the press lately with Google and Apple, and while I'm not trying to say everyone should be nice and happy, it's really much nicer for me if the two companies I use a lot would be at least professionally polite. It makes for happier folks all around.
Anyway... Chrome is updated and that's always a good thing.
I got a tweet today from the great guys at Panic that they had released Transmit 4.1.1 after a fitful release of 4.1, which had a bug with the Sparkle updating. The 4.1.1 release has an impressive list of features including a massive update to the Transmit Disk feature. It's now independent of MacFUSE, so I removed that from System Preferences, and it works with 64-bit kernels. It always was a good to great product, it's just getting better and better for what I need. Amazing application.
Skitch 8.7 - the final Beta is out and they promise that very soon they will have the 1.0 of the app and the website out with a dramatically new look. I really think they'd have to charge and arm and a leg for me not to pay it for this app - it's just that good. The only difference seems to be the extension of the timeout, but hey, at least it keeps working.
Good news, and something to look forward to.
I got a tweet this afternoon about an update of MarsEdit 3.1. It includes 64-bit support as well as Lightroom 3 compatibility. Looks nice. The whole change list is:
MarsEdit 3.1
- 64-bit Compatible
- New per-blog setting to constrain image media to pre-set size
- Support for Lightroom 3 media libraries
- Added new "Paste HTML Source" command for e.g. embedding YouTube easily in rich mode
- Enabled plugins for rich editor so you can e.g. see embedded movies
- "Send To Weblog" command now works when preview window is front-most
- Optional support for Google Data API 2.0 with Blogger
- Bug Fixes
- Fix issue that prevented ejection of external media volumes
- Fix some cases where the preview window could turn blank
- Make sure changes to the preview template save to disk immediately
- Restore functionality of "send post to blog" scripting command
It'll be interesting to see if the 64-bit change makes it a little more responsive at times. That's about my only complaint. It'll get there, and it's a great app.
[9/15] UPDATE: seems there was a single, nasty bug in 3.1, and so they released 3.1.1. Seems to be a lot of that going around these days (Transmit).