Camino 1.6.8 is out today with a few fixes that are certainly needed, but with the latest news of Firefox 3.5 and what's happening with the other browsers, I wonder how long Camino will stay an active project. It's already showing signs of lagging - very much like Firefox 3.0 did.
Only time will tell.
This morning, Adium told me that 1.3.5 was out and it fixes connection issues with Facebook, Yahoo, and MSN, as well as updating the version of libpurple in use. It's a nice upgrade, but I haven't really noticed any serious connection issues with these guys, but maybe I'm just lucky.
Anyway, the bet IM client on the Mac... gotta love that.
This morning, after my reboot for Safari 4.0.1, I found that Skitch's Beta had timed out, and that the new Skitch: Beta 8.2 was out with the following release notes:
Improved
- Improved GIF and BMP support
- Extended Skitch beta time-out
I can't imagine running without Skitch - had to upgrade. And if they start to charge for it, I'll be first in line - no question. It's the Post-It notes of my Mac -- didn't know I needed it until I had it and now I can't imagine working without it.
I was reading Gruber today and he pointed to an article about a new free font - Anonymous Pro. It's very clean and nice, and at a 10pt Bold, it's perfect for BBEdit. It's dark enough to be very readable, but not too smashed to be unreadable. It's tight, has wonderful 'greater than' and 'less than' signs... it's just perfect for BBEdit.
I tried it in Xcode, but I have to say here, the rendering they use in Xcode is best served by Panic Sans. But still, it's not bad.
I tried it in MacVim, but again, Inconsolata was better here for how they rendered text. Still, not bad.
So it's going to depend on what app and what you want to see, but for a light background on BBEdit, this is amazing.
This morning I saw that LaunchBar 5 had another small step towards "dot-O" with the release of Release Candidate 3. The release notes are a little sparse, which is good, possibly indicating that we're getting close to the final product.
I have to say, it's been rock solid for me, and I absolutely love the clipboard history. It's saved me a ton of time.
I noticed this morning that Hulu Desktop has been updated to 0.9.4 - no mention of the changes in this release, but there's no reason not to update. I did hear a rumor that Hulu is considering charging for video streams. It's certainly possible given the new desktop client, but it's not in keeping with the way Hulu started. It's already got adds - targeted adds, even. So why ask us to pay? Maybe to get rid of the ads, that's something that folks might pay for.
Who knows. We'll have to see how things unfold in the coming weeks and months.
Very odd thing is happening to me this afternoon - I'm trying to buy a simple iTunes email gift certificate for Nina against my PayPal account (my default funding source) and it keeps saying that the credit card is refused. Not really. I can buy a song, so that's OK, but if I try to get the $20 iTunes 'card', it fails. I've put in my information several times - no difference. Odd... very odd.
So I'm thinking it's something that's temporary on iTunes Store. Gotta be. PayPal is OK, saying I created the 'Pay agreement' with iTunes, but it's got to be the call from iTunes Store to PayPal that's causing the problem.
So I had to tell Nina that she's going to have to wait for a bit to let this issue settle out and then I can send her the money. Maybe this evening, maybe tomorrow. But I feel certain it's OK as I'm able to buy a song. Hmmm... very odd indeed.
UPDATE: I bought an album, upgraded a song to iTunes Plus, all that worked. But the gift certificate didn't. Wild. I'll have to wait and see how it plays out this evening.
I noticed this morning that Firefox 3.0.11 is out and from the release notes it looks like it's a security update with a single bookmark database fix. Well... at least it's progress.
I have to say, with Safari 4 out and Google Chrome on Mac OS X making progress, the update for Firefox 3.5 should hurry up or look to be significantly lagging behind. Hope to see it soon.
I like SimpleScripts at HostMonster! This morning I got an email from SimpleScripts saying that WordPress 2.8 was out and was ready to upgrade my installs at HostMonster. Two things: one, I didn't know that 2.8 was even out yet (beating the Fantastico time-to-market by a ton) and two, what a wonderful service to let me know that there was an update available rather than me having to know and then look to the Fantastico site to see if it's there yet.
Very nice package, SimpleScripts. I'm glad I moved over. WordPress 2.8 I haven't heard anything about, but we'll see what it has to say for itself in the coming days.
Wow! It seems I missed quite a bit with DrawIt... it's at 3.8.2 already with the latest Sparkle notes saying only:
- It's now again possible to change document size
- Bitmap images can again be edited in external editors
I've looked on the web site and I can't seem to find the release notes for the other releases. Bummer. Oh well... it's up to date anyway.