Archive for September, 2007

• 09.12.07 Pownce API Coming Soon? posted in Geekery

  I was a little slow in noticing this, and it was posted nearly a month ago, but according to Shawn Allen, Pownce is still on track for a September release of their API. This would mean new (and better) clients… ones that can actually notify you of messages. And inclusion in MoodBlast, of course. Speaking of…

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• 09.11.07 MoodBlast 2.20, Growing Up Fast posted in Geekery

  Well, somehow I’ve managed to finish up version 2.20 of MoodBlast. We jumped a few versions because I screwed up my numbering scheme and this is not a bugfix, it’s a feature release. What a mess. But we’ve got configurable @keywords, Jaiku locations, an undo feature for wayward moods, a few fixes and more interface tweaks. Here’s a rundown…

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• 09.10.07 Jott2iGTD Testers Needed posted in Geekery

  There are so many variables involved with making Jott2iGTD function for everyone that I need a little help with testing. Here’s a full packaged version that anyone can download to try out, but I’ll remove the link and move it to the download page once we get all the bugs worked out. If you’re currently experiencing problems with Jott2iGTD, you have nothing to list by trying this…

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• 09.10.07 Jott2iGTD Woes posted in Geekery

  Looks like my work on Jott2iGTD has been revived. Jott just completely revamped the format of the emails they send, rendering the current parser useless. I’ll be rewriting it as quickly as possible and getting a new version out as soon as I can.

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• 09.07.07 MoodBlast 2.13 posted in Geekery

  MoodBlast 2.13 is out, current users can just use the built in update options. New users, head for the download page! As mentioned previously, Facebook is no longer a friend of MoodBlast. We’re sorry that it ended the way it did, and we hope they’ll call someday, but for now, we just need some space. However, and in no way is this meant to trick you into upgrading to a Facebook-less version, but UTF-8 and international weather support has greatly improved, the interface is further tweaked and we’ve added Yappd! Here’s why…

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• 09.06.07 Losing Facebook posted in Geekery

  Admit it, you hate Facebook. Okay, I hate Facebook. And I hate that they’re now taking legal action against those of us using the code that allows people to update their status remotely. The next version of MoodBlast will remove Facebook support until they actually support it in their crappy API. I’ll do my best to add a few more services, starting with a gem that you probably haven’t heard of but I’m falling in love with: Yappd. And Plazes, and expanded locations support and all the good stuff. I know I’ll lose a lot of interest when I drop Facebook, but they make it harder for us every day and now they’re threatening us. Oh well. By the way, the next version will completely fix Unicode/UTF-8 problems as well as international weather issues, so international users will be able to rock and roll, everywhere but Facebook.

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• 09.03.07 Sparkle Earns Its Keep posted in Geekery

  MoodBlast 2.11 hits the streets, fixing the dreaded /title bug. I think. It totally removes what I thought I had engineered for UTF-8 support, but apparently that wasn’t working anyway. I’ll keep exploring options, but in the meantime, this will at least allow for non alpha-numeric symbols in your text, and won’t go exploding into title closing tags. If you’re already using MoodBlast (and having these problems), use the Check for Updates option in the menu!

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• 09.03.07 I Had to Test Sparkle (MoodBlast 2.1) posted in Geekery

  Well, it appears the auto-updates work, after a little bump that hopefully nobody noticed. The new version improves MoodBlast’s ability to return to the previous foreground window when the panel is closed, instead of forcing you to grab your mouse or ⌘-⇥ to it. I did forget to mention one feature in the previous post: MoodBlast now downcases the first letter of a string when posting to Facebook. Given the way Facebook displays your mood (Brett Terpstra is…), it looked awkward to have a capital in the middle of the sentence and was inconvenient to have to post sentences beginning with lowercase letters to every other service. So now you can just start your sentence with a capital letter and let MoodBlast handle the rest. While I’m writing, I thought I’d give you a list of up and coming features, as well as some hopes for the not-too-distant future…

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• 09.03.07 MoodBlast 2.0 posted in Geekery

  Okay, this is it. I’m letting MoodBlast 2.0 out into the wild. It’s probably got bugs, and I’m hoping to find them and fix them quickly. It’s got a slew of new features. I’ve implemented quite a few user requests but still have quite a few to go. I feel like Bartek must feel (on a small scale), trying to keep up with user demand on what basically amounts to free software ;). Here’s a quick feature list…

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