Indie Relief: You get great software, proceeds go to Haiti

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Brian Webster
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Put together over the last week or so by Justin Williams of Second Gear Software, the Indie Relief promotion includes over 140 Mac and iPhone developers who have banded together and pledged to donate all of today’s (January 20th) proceeds from their software sales to various charities in order to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

I’m happy to announce that Fat Cat Software is participating, so the proceeds from any purchases of iPhoto Library Manager, PowerTunes, or PlistEdit Pro that happen today will be given to Doctors Without Borders to help Haiti in its recovery from this tragic crisis.

So, head over to www.indierelief.com, where you can browse through over 200 Mac and iPhone applications. Purchase any of them today, January 20th, and the proceeds will be donated to a charity of the developer’s choice. Or, if no software grabs your fancy, you can also donate directly to one of the charities listed on the page.

P.S. Because of the global nature of the companies involved, there has been a little confusion about time zones, what counts as January 20th, and so forth. Each developer will make their own decision on that, but what I’ve decided is to include all sales starting at midnight on Jan. 20th Eastern time through 11:59 PM Pacific time. So, it will actually be a range of 27 hours worth of purchases which will be given to charity.

PowerTunes 1.1.1, now compatible with iTunes 9

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Brian Webster
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PowerTunes 1.1.1 was released today, which now provides full compatibility with iTunes 9, along with a couple other miscellaneous bug fixes. The main points of improvement in working with iTunes 9 are:

So, if you have any older version of PowerTunes and have iTunes 9, I highly recommend using the “Check For Updates” menu item to update to the latest version.

PowerTunes compatibility with iTunes 9

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Brian Webster
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Apple released a new version of iTunes today, version 9.0, which adds several major new features to iTunes. Some of the changes in the new version will cause several features of PowerTunes not to work properly with iTunes 9.0 installed. The affected features are:

An update for PowerTunes will be published soon that will address the issues listed above. Preliminary testing indicates that all other features of PowerTunes work normally with iTunes 9, so you can continue to switch between your libraries, create new libraries, find orphaned tracks, and so forth using the current version of PowerTunes (1.1). If you do experience any problems with PowerTunes 1.1 and iTunes 9.0, please use the “Contact Support” menu item in the Help menu, or e-mail support@fatcatsoftware.com

You can check the “Automatically check for updates” checkbox in the PowerTunes preferences window to be notified when the update is made available, and/or keep an eye on this blog for further postings.

Snow Leopard compatibility

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Brian Webster
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Since Apple announced yesterday that they are releasing Snow Leopard on the 28th, I thought I’d post a quick note about the compatibility status of our products. I’ve run all of them through a thorough testing suite over the last few weeks to try and find any potential compatibility problems.

iPhoto Library Manager

Updated 9/16/09: A handful of users reported crashes when attempting to copy photos on Snow Leopard using iPhoto Library Manager 3.5.3. The cause of this bug has been found and fixed in iPhoto Library Manager 3.5.4.

PowerTunes

There are no known issues with Snow Leopard for the current version (1.1) of PowerTunes.

PlistEdit Pro

Only one issue was found in version 1.4.1 when running on Snow Leopard, but it was a fairly large one: plist files would not open in PlistEdit Pro when double clicking them from the Finder (the “Open” item in the File menu still worked properly). I just posted version 1.4.2 of PlistEdit Pro today, which fixes this problem, so if you encounter this issue, just use the “Check For Updates” menu item to update to 1.4.2.

I do my best to find any issues before an OS X update is released, but if you have any problems upon upgrading to Snow Leopard, please e-mail support@fatcatsoftware.com with a description of your problem, and we’ll try to get things figured out ASAP.

Purchase iPhoto Library Manager and get 25% off Duplicate Annihilator

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Brian Webster
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I’d like to announce a promotion that I’m running along with Brattoo Propaganda Software, makers of Duplicate Annihilator. Duplicate Annihilator is a program designed to track down duplicate photos in your iPhoto library. It has several different algorithms for finding duplicates, and also several different options for what to do with duplicates that have been found (delete, move to the trash, mark with a keyword, etc.), and is very useful for trimming down your iPhoto library.

For a limited time, if you purchase a copy of iPhoto Library Manager, you will receive a coupon code for 25% off a purchase of Duplicate Annihilator. You can download Duplicate Annihilator for a free trial to try it out, and if you like it, you can use the coupon code you receive on the receipt page after purchasing iPhoto Library Manager to receive your 25% discount.

iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 released

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Brian Webster
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At long last, iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 is now available! The main focus of this update is providing support for transferring the new Faces and Places data introduced in iPhoto ‘09. If you use the new version to copy photos from one library to another, and you have tagged faces in those photos, those face records will be recreated in the destination library. Similarly, if you have assigned places to photos or events that you’re copying, that data will now also be copied over along with the photos. This was probably the most complex new addition to iPhoto in quite some time, so updating iPhoto Library Manager has taken a good while longer than usual. However, with the help of some intrepid beta testers, the new version is now ready for general use.

You can use the “Check For Updates” menu item within the program to update to the new version, or you can download it here as well. This is a free update for anyone who’s already a registered user, so no additional purchase is necessary to update to the new version.

For those interested, here are the complete release notes for the new version:

iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 release notes

The last iPLM 3.5 beta (hopefully)

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Brian Webster
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After finally tracking down and squishing the last couple major bugs this week, there are now no known bugs left for iPhoto Library Manager 3.5. I’m going to put up one last beta version, which you can download here, for people to try out over the weekend. I’ll be tying up a few loose ends over the weekend, and assuming nothing else major comes up, I’ll be aiming to do a final release early next week.

iPLM 3.5 getting close to release

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Brian Webster
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The beta testing for iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 has been going well, although it’s taken a bit longer than I would have ideally liked it to, both due to issues in the program and “real life” delays. However, those who’ve tried it out have helped uncover a number of different bugs, and the number of bug reports has been steadily dwindling. Thanks to all who’ve provided reports on your experiences with the beta!

I’ve posted several new builds since the initial beta went out, and we’re now up to beta 12, which can be downloaded here. This fixes a couple persistent crashers from beta 5 onwards, along with several improvements in the photo copying process. If you’ve been running a previous beta and have encountered problems, I highly recommend downloading the new one.

There are still several minor items to be done before 3.5 can go final, but there are no more major changes to make, and currently no known issues. Of course, we’ll see if anything crops up this week as people have a chance to test things out, but I’m hopeful that the final release will be ready sometime next week. But, as always, nothing is written in stone, and I won’t be finalizing the release until I’m confident things have been sufficiently tested.

iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 public beta

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Brian Webster
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Work on iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 has been progressing well, and things are now to the point where the major new features are up and running. However, given the relative complexity of the new features (especially transferring faces data between libraries), I’ve decided to do a (hopefully brief) public beta of iPLM 3.5, so I can get it tested out on a wide variety of setups and make sure to get all the kinks worked out.

The main additions are, of course, the ability to copy Places and Faces data from one library to another when copying photos under iPhoto ‘09. This includes both copying individual albums/events and merging libraries. There are also several other changes and bug fixes included in the release (full release notes are at the bottom of this post).

This is pre-release software – I’ve tested things as thoroughly as possible, and there are no known bugs in the beta, but there is still the possibility of issues popping up, especially when dealing with library setups I haven’t been able to test myself. I strongly recommend backing up your iPhoto libraries before doing any major photo copying.

So, if you have iPhoto ‘09 and want to try out copying photos between your libraries while keeping your Places and Faces intact, you can download the public beta here. Note that I haven’t yet done my full suite of tests on earlier versions of iPhoto, and there isn’t really much in the way of new features for those earlier versions, so if you haven’t upgraded to iPhoto ‘09, there’s probably not much point in downloading the beta.

The system requirements are the same as 3.4.5, and you still need a registered copy in order to perform advanced features such as photo copying and merging. I will be posting updates as bugs get reported and things get fixed – you can use the “Check For Updates” menu item from within the program to check for and install any new updates. If any issues arise, please contact support@fatcatsoftware.com.

Update 4/3/09: Things have been progressing well, and iPLM 3.5 is getting close to completion. There are still a couple issues that need working out, but nothing major at the moment. I’ve just posted a new beta, 3.5b5, that is now available for download. Due to a mistake in 3.5b4, the “Check For Updates” menu item will not detect this new version if you have 3.5b4 currently installed, so you will have to download it manually instead from the link above.

Changes in iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 public beta

iPLM 3.5 progress update

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Brian Webster
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Just thought I’d make a quick post to give a progress update on iPhoto Library Manager 3.5. The update is going well, although it’s been slowed a bit by “real life” events such as moving into a new apartment last weekend, etc. At this point, support for Places is basically working, and I’m probably about halfway through getting Faces copying to work. I’m also going to be taking this opportunity to make a few other miscellaneous improvements and some rewriting of the help docs to fix some out of date information and such. So, the end of February goal probably isn’t going to happen, but hopefully it shouldn’t take too much longer than that.

My thanks in advance for everyone’s patience, I’d like to take my time and be thorough in testing to make sure the release is worth the wait.

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