The first topic of todays post is Little Snitch. For those of you that do not know this Mac OS X software, it is a small utility that warns of outgoing connections and allows them to be blocked if necessary. It can be downloaded here. The main reason I am mentioning it is that I have received an email today from a worried user of iSyncIt that was informed by Little Snitch of iSyncIt checking in with boycie.primehosting.co.uk. This is p…
[Read More →]Whist I was browsing my favorite blog (TUAW) today an interesting post popped up. It seems that some guys known only as Arne and Marcus have started a website that is sort of a cross between MacUpdate and del.icio.us. I think it’s a brilliant idea and should be supported so hop on over to iusethis.com, get reg…
[Read More →]Version 0.5 of iSyncIt is now in the wild. I can’t actually think of anything else to add to it at the moment so this will be the feature frozen release for now. Any subsequent releases, probably up to version 1.0 (if I get that far) will just be bug fix releases, I also plan on optimizing the code in these releases to give a smaller memory footprint and a faster run time.
[Read More →]Unfortunately (primarily due to my lack of programming knowledge) I have not yet found a way to give the user an option of choosing whether or not to show the dock icon. I personally think that the menu bar item is more useful for iSyncIt so the dock icon will remain hidden for now. If any programmers out there know how to achieve the choice of dock hiding in Obj-C then feel free to contact me.
On that bombshell, iSyncIt 0.4 has now been released. All of you using a…
[Read More →]iSyncIt 0.3 is now available in the wild. The most obvious changes in this release are the removal of iSyncIt’s dock presence and the introduction of a menu bar item instead. This also means that iSyncIt can be added to your login items and you can have much easier access to your syncing. Future updates of iSyncIt will now be handled through the Sparkle update engine. View more about iSyncIt here.
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