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June 7th, 2008
I’ve posted a pre-release version of HistoryHound. It now runs very smoothly and searches VERY quickly on Leopard. It’s also got options to constrain searches by date so I can, for instance, search for only the web pages I’ve visited in the last 4 days that included the words “iphone sdk”. It helps immensely in tracking down stuff you’re looking for in your browser history.
There’s also a new contextual menu that you can use to remove search results from the index or create a filter to prevent HistoryHound from indexing any further URLs that are similar to the one in your search results. And of course, there are some bug fixes and minor improvements in various places, but the big deal is just how fast it actually searches now.
And yes, I do know that Safari now has its own search field when you view your history, but it’s clunky to get to and doesn’t allow me to constrain my searches by date. Nor does it see any of the pages that I’ve visited in FireFox like HistoryHound does.
Anyway, I’m happy to have HistoryHound running about ten times faster now. Grab a copy and give it a try yourself!
Tags: bookmark, browser, firefox, history, hound, omniweb, safari, shiira
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June 5th, 2008
I had MacJury duty Tuesday on Chuck Joiner’s MacJury show, contributing to a discussion on stolen Macs and the hilarious Back to My Mac recovery of a stolen laptop. We also talked about Starbucks’ new WiFi rollout and speculated on their possible plans as a “media hub cafe”. Check out our random ramblings 🙂
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June 5th, 2008
I occasionally get reports of problems between Default Folder X and Adobe InDesign. One user has done some digging and found that InDesign has some pretty major, known problems with Leopard’s Navigation Services (NavServices is the part of OS X that provides the Open and Save As dialogs). You may get crashes in InDesign when running Leopard, regardless of whether you’re using Default Folder X or not, and unfortunately, they’re not things that I can fix in DFX. For more details, see:
There are a couple of workarounds described in the blog comments. Tim Cole at Adobe has written up one in his recent blog post. A better one has been posted by Craig Swanson at CreativeTechs.
Thanks to James Wondrack for tracking down this info.
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June 5th, 2008
A new version of DFX is now finished and up on the web site (the Japanese installer should be coming later today). Version 4.0.6 contains a bunch of compatibility fixes for various applications that do things in slightly nonstandard ways that would confuse Default Folder X.
I’ve also added a little code to try and make column view more tolerable in Open and Save dialogs. Default Folder X will now set the default size for columns based on the size of the rightmost column in the last Open or Save dialog you used (not the preview column, but the rightmost column containing a list of files and folders). I know this is still a little “clunky” – it’d be great if I could save and restore the various widths you’ve set for all the columns, or auto-size them to fit the actual contents of the column – but there are limitations in Leopard’s Open and Save dialogs that make those impossible or impractical. So, this change makes it better than it was, but still not as I want it.
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May 17th, 2008
David over at http://www.macbeginners.net/ has posted a screencast showing off some of Default Folder X’s features. You can view the HD version directly at vimeo if you like, too, but give David’s site a look, especially if you’re new to the Mac.
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May 13th, 2008
If you want to include one of Default Folder X’s menus (Favorites, Recent Folders, etc) in a Finder contextual menu, it’s easy to do with Abracode’s free OnMyCommand contextual menu plugin.
To add a DFX Favorite menu, follow these steps:
- Download OnMyCommand.
- You’ll get a disk image that looks like this. Run the “Install OnMyCommandCM” script and let it relaunch the Finder after it installs the CM plugin.
- Open the “OMCEdit” folder and launch OMCEdit. You’ll get a message that it needs to create a new preference file. Tell it to do so.
- From the “Command” menu, choose “New”.
- Fill in the command fields like this:
- Once you save the command, it should appear in your contextual menus like so. Clicking on it will bring up the full Default Folder X hierarchical Favorites menu.
You can do this same thing for other DFX menus by substituting a different name for “Favorite” in the AppleScript command you use in OMCEdit. Valid options are “Disk”, “Favorite”, “Recent”, and “Finder”. Leaving off the ‘named “Favorite”‘ entirely will pop up the entire DFX menu hierarchy as it appears in the menubar.
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May 5th, 2008
Congrats to Michael Mistretta, who’s going to be getting a brand new iPod Touch for his winning entry in the iPhone Application Idea contest! I apologize for taking so long to judge the entries – as I said in an earlier comment, I got sidetracked a lot as I explored the feasibility of some of the entries and discovered details about the workings of the iPhone OS.
While I’m not going to talk up Michael’s idea until its development is a bit further along, I’ll share some of the other entries we liked:
- Location logging that can be used to tag photos after you upload them to iPhoto
- Consultant’s client billing / project timer / mileage / expense tracker
- Podcast downloader that updates over WiFi so you don’t need iTunes
- Enable the iPhone as a touch sensitive input device to replace or augment the mouse
- A visual bookmark viewer that uses CoverFlow
- A diet / health blogging app to feed something like Body Lapse
There were a ton of other great entries, many of which I’d love to implement if it weren’t for technical or distribution issues. There are a couple in particular that deserve special mention:
- A Mojo client
- A “spaces” capability where apps are activated by turning the iPhone to particular orientations (how sweet would that be?)
- Download song lyrics for the currently playing song (obvious, but still not there)
Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas! Oh, and if you submitted one that didn’t win but we end up using it later on to build a successful product, you’ll definitely get a “thank you” iPod or some other present 🙂
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April 17th, 2008
I’ve just posted a new release of Default Folder X. Version 4.0.4 doesn’t contain any major feature additions, but resolves a number of problems that have been reported in the last few weeks. Some of those problems could be serious (crashes or hangs) so all users of version 4 should update to this latest release. Just download the installer and run it – if you’re a new user, it’ll install DFX for you. If you’re an existing user, it’ll replace the version you’re already running and your existing registration number will continue to work.
Full details and download links are available on the Default Folder X Release Page along with links to localized installers in Japanese, French, German, and Danish. As always, thanks to our great bunch of localizers:
as well as Ronald Leroux, who jumped in while Philippe is on vacation to get the French version updated this time.
And, of course, thanks to all you DFX users out there who continue to send suggestions, bug reports, and encouragement!
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March 30th, 2008
Yup – your chance to win an iPod touch ends at midnight tomorrow, so if you’ve been procrastinating on submitting an entry, get to it now! We’ve had hundreds of folks submit ideas – some really great ones and a few really off the wall ones – though they’re all generating even more ideas here, so keep ’em coming 🙂
It’s going to be hard to decide on a winner, but I’ll post an announcement here as soon as the choice is made. Be creative!
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March 30th, 2008
 Default Folder X 4.0.3 is now available in English, Japanese, German, French, and Danish. Despite the minor change in the version number, this is a very important update that everyone should install. It fixes a couple of significant problems – the biggest one is a memory corruption bug that could cause crashes or odd behavior in Carbon applications.
Version 4.0.3 also gives you some nice new features. The one I like the most is the contextual menu that pops up when you control-click on an item in the list of files in Open or Save As dialogs. Now you can choose “Save As,” right click on the old version of a file and create a .zip file of it, then replace it with the new file. It’s a nice, simple way to create an archive of the old version so you can get it back if necessary.
Special thanks go to our localizers, who remain dedicated to making sure Default Folder X reaches the world in their native languages in a timely fashion. They are:
A huge thanks to them for their help, suggestions, and testing too! And thank you to all the folks who’ve reported bugs, made suggestions, and generally just had incredible enthusiasm for Default Folder X – you guys are what makes running an indie software company so great!
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