This morning there was another round of security updates from Apple - covering PHP, PDF, etc. It's not a lot, but hey, when there's an exploit in the wild, you have to fix them, and I'm going to make sure I get the very latest updates. Just makes good sense.
This morning I got a tweet about MarsEdit 3.0.5 being updated with a nice little set of bug fixes:
- Fix bug with spaces being stripped from HTML markup for Flickr items
- Fix bug with tags that have spaces in them
- Fix bug that prevented split-view state from being saved/restored correctly
- Fix bug that caused the extended "more" text for WordPress Page entries to be blank
- Fix margin sizes in media manager window
So I naturally had to get it. Don't think I saw a one of these, but hey... it was easy.
This happened yesterday during my "move weekend", but even so, GraphicConverter 6.7.4 is now out with a few nice new features:
New features:
- scale after crop option added
- pdn preview display added
- sepia batch added
Updated features:
- paperport import improved (support for files with different resolutions and color depths added)
- raw importer updated
Bug fixes:
- possible issue with unsigned short import fixed
- unicode issue in preview/rename fixed
- general issues with the default color profiles fixed
- bug with scale to 1080p fixed
- possible printing issues with color profiles fixed
- xbm inverson bug fixed
- possible bug with scaling of animations fixed
- many other small changes and bug fixes
In the course of buying our new house, I found a wonderful use for GraphicConverter - generating PDFs from a directory of scanned images. In my case, scanned documents that needed to be pieced back together for shipping to loan officers, underwriters, lawyers and realtors. Very handy feature.
During my latest "move weekend", the Twitter folks have been testing their new OAuth system, and the guys at Iconfactory have released a new Twitterrific for Mac 3.2.3 - but there was a slight problem, and they had to release 3.2.4 very soon after that due to rate limiting and OAuth issues.
Not to worry, I keep up to date on the tools I use every day, and this is one of them. It's still the best twitter app on the desktop and the iPhone. I like it's simplicity, but I'll admit, that there are a lot of new features in the iPhone version that I'd love to see int he Mac version. But please leave the UI the same. It's the best part.
It looks like they have fired up the 'dev' channel again as Google Chrome dev 6.0.495.0 was released this morning. I went back to the dev channel after moving to the beta when it was released a few days ago. I have to say, this has become an incredibly stable platform. It's fast, looks like a Mac app, and it just plain works. Nice.
The release notes indicate that, for the Mac at least, we're getting a fix for the download shelf, and a few fixes for CSS and plug-in handling. Looks good to me.
This morning I noticed that Google Chrome beta 6.0.472.36 was out - still no word on a new 'dev' release, so it appears that for now, they are simply sticking with the 6.0.x branch and not starting anything new for the time being. It seems reasonable that if they aren't making major changes, they can keep the 6.0.x branch moving along from dev to beta to stable. It's only if they have great new ideas that it makes sense to open up the dev branch again.
So it's out there - a few little UI fixes - nothing major.
While I've heard a lot of grumblings from the net about the fact that Hulu is going "for pay", the Mac Desktop app is still just commercial supported TV. I can deal with that. I know it's based on the Flash player, but with the latest player being hardware-accelerated, that's not too bad. This morning I noticed that they had released the Hulu Desktop 0.9.9, so I needed to upgrade.
It's nice to be able to watch some of my favorites on the desktop. Really nice.
Well... I'm a little surprised (again) at the Google Chrome guys... this time, the update to 6.0.472.33 didn't work from the application, and I had to get the update directly from the web site. In addition, the permissions on the existing app package made it impossible for a new user to replace the old with the new. Very odd. But in the end, I got what I needed, and I hope they have these updating issues fixed. It's amazing that they don't just use Sparkle, it's almost a defacto standard for the Mac.
UPDATE: I see the point... they promoted this to beta from dev, and that's the reason it wasn't updating. I'm going to have to go back to the dev channel when it's on the next major release. Makes sense now.
This morning I saw that Adobe finally released a hardware accelerated Flash player for Mac OS X. It's version 10.1.82.76, and it works for Safari and Chrome - the two I need it to work for. I'm hoping that I don't need it too much, but it's silly to think that there won't be cases that I do need it, so it's better to be up to date and waste a tiny bit of disk space than have an old, slow, plugin.