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Release Notes

yFlicks 3.3.2 - Jun 20 2008

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Solved an issue which resulted in a hanging yflickscrawler process and, consequently, non-working preview image creation with QuickTime 7.5 installed
  • Worked around a bug in Apple's URL loading frameworks that resulted in long download connection delays under certain circumstances (background info for fellow developers: NSURLConnections based on NSMutableURLRequests don't obey their timeout setting, so we had to emulate that time-out)

yFlicks 3.3.1 - Apr 22 2008

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Now grabbing MPEG4 from youtube.com
  • Fixed display glitch in download status

yFlicks 3.3 - Mar 20 2008

New Features

  • Coverflow (including fullscreen mode and remote control support)
  • Optional support for including your iTunes movies in your yFlicks library (this is most useful when you're using Usher mode to have your movies displayed in a hierarchical fashion in Front Row)
  • Downloaded web videos can now be converted and added to your iTunes library automatically
  • More export options (no longer limited to MPEG-4)
  • Subdivide smart groups by library folder
  • Download names (e.g., "My Cat is Teh Funny (LOLZ!).flv") instead of cryptic terms (e.g., "yldqNkGfo.flv")

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Converting/exporting movies no longer blocks yFlicks
  • Fixed display glitch in download status
  • Downloads are now resumed across application restarts, if the server allows it
  • Fixed dailymotion.com, livevideo.com, clipfish.de, myvideo.de
  • Cropped movies didn't resize correctly

yFlicks 3.2.1 - Feb 8 2008

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • yFlicks refused to start up properly on certain Mac OS X 10.4 configurations

yFlicks 3.2 - Feb 7 2008

New Features

  • Supplementary library folders (you can move movies between library folders via context menu)
  • Fanned out smart groups (still wondering whether that's a good name)
  • Smart group criterion: last playback date
  • Index image (available from a movie's context menu)
  • Item counts: unwatched
  • User-selectable downloads group (and file system folder, if library folder is organized by yFlicks)
  • livevideo.com

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Library column, other minor UI stuff
  • youtube.com, video.google.com, dailymotion.com
  • "Open file" dialog
  • Movie counters/playback dates weren't updated correctly when opening movies in an external viewer

yFlicks 3.1.1 - Jan 15 2008

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Downloads from international YouTube sites, such as de.youtube.com

yFlicks 3.1 - Jan 11 2008

New Features

  • Movie sequences (select multiple movies, "join" them via context menu)
  • Smart group subdividing tag values threshold
  • Preference for hiding the temporary storage when empty
  • Crop movies
  • Set a custom aspect ratio that will be remembered as a default for a given movie
  • File size and counter can now be displayed in list mode (right-click on table headers)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Scrolling through lots of preview/cover images is much more responsive, because those image are now loaded asynchronously
  • Item counts now reflect the total number of movies in a given group by default (see "Appearance" preferences for additional options)
  • Customizable preview image snapshot time (default: 5%)
  • Settings like visible table columns and preview size are now saved separately for each library
  • Holding Option while changing the preview/cover image size now snaps that size to values that make optimal use of the current window width

yFlicks 3.0.3 - Dec 13 2007

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Display glitch in the English localization's "Advanced" preferences tab (thanks Steffen Crawford!)

yFlicks 3.0.2 - Dec 10 2007

New Features

  • German localization
    Bug Fixes & Improvements
  • Non-blocking movie data caching (preview image, duration)
  • Show an overlay slider control for previews
  • Date subgroups, as created by smart groups that are subdivided by date, are now named as "YYYY-MM-DD" in Usher mode, resulting in a correct sorting order in Front Row
  • Fixed collegehumor.com
  • Fixed some smaller issues affecting fullscreen mode, for instance

yFlicks 3.0.1 - Nov 26 2007

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Bug in sorting subdivided smart groups
  • Minor cosmetical issues

yFlicks 3.0 - Nov 19 2007

New Features

  • Tags, including auto-tagging
  • Sub-divided smart groups
  • Cover images
  • Auto-detect
  • Batch rename
  • Item counts for organized file system folders
  • Open with (icons -> default apps)
  • Drag & drop URLs to the dock icon
  • Choose library folder from File > Library menu
  • Play/pause, jump forward, jump backward via new Apple keyboard's media keys
  • Path Finder support

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Select/delete/drag items in preview mode
  • Multiple selection in library
  • Starting up faster, sorting faster
  • Search (tags, multiple keywords)
  • Positioning of newly added (smart) groups
  • Large/small library font
  • Aspect-ratio-independent preview images
  • Double-clicking on elapsed/remaining time jumps to beginning/end of movie
  • Select groups from the library menu
  • Encapsulated library
  • Several issues with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"
  • Minor drag & drop bugs
  • Half size
  • Mouse access, e.g., for QuickTime VR files
  • Moving/copying files on dragging them to the library's top level
  • Youtube.com, video.google.com

yFlicks 2.0.1 - Jun 12 2007

New Features

  • dailymotion.com, collegehumor.com
  • Double click toggles presentation mode
  • "Hybrid" leopard-style main window texture

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Bug in sorting an empty group by descending index
  • UI glitch when toggling hovering controls in list mode
  • Movie view keyboard focus, you can now step through frames with left/right arrow again
  • Shift-command-r rotates
  • Context menus (e.g., in presentation mode)

yFlicks 2.0 - Jun 8 2007

New Features

  • Managed library, custom library location (share library between local users)
  • Remote control support (preferences: controls)
  • Browser integration
  • Custom preview images
  • Click (and hold) remaining/elapsed time to jump forward/backward
  • Presentation mode dims other screens (preferences: controls)
  • Jump to time
  • Current movie can be rated from "File" menu
  • Main window size saved across restarts

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Volume, search are now part of a retractable standard Mac OS X toolbar
  • Multiple selection in group list mode
  • Adjustable number of concurrent downloads
  • Search results duplicates
  • youtube.com, myvideo.de
  • Lots of minor bug fixes, GUI improvements, and preferences

yFlicks 1.1 - Apr 23 2007

New Features

  • Smart groups
  • sevenload.com, clipfish.de

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • When auto-generating groups for Finder folders, files are now sorted by name
  • Memory leak when removing groups from the library

yFlicks 1.0.2 - Mar 12 2007

New Features

  • Drag tracks from yFlicks to iTunes/Finder (optional) and vice versa
  • Opening Finder folders auto-generates groups

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Switch to group view when last group movie is done
  • Group sorting

yFlicks 1.0.1 - Jan 31 2007

New Features

  • myvideo.de

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Download status
  • Volume vs. preview
  • URLs vs. "Show in Finder"

yFlicks 1.0 - Jan 14 2007

Takeoff

  • Initial release

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Editor's Review: Excellent