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Time for another Touch-up Tuesday

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

That’s right, another Touch-up Tuesday, featuring some minor updates to a few of the apps on our menu. This week’s updated delicacies include the following entrees…

  • Leech 2.0.7: We’ve updated the version of SIMBL we bundle, so setting up browser integration works again on Mac OS X 10.5.x machines. There was one other small fix (a localization issue). [Release notes]
  • Name Mangler 2.2.4: After investigating a couple reports of Name Mangler not working, we figured out that users were unchecking all filters. This would essentially disable Name Mangler. So as of 2.2.4, you can’t do that any more. Also fixed a bug that caused the Change Case mode to fail when renaming files containing accented or any other decomposable characters. [Release notes]
  • Usher 1.0.3: Usher received the most attention this week; make sure you check out the release notes page for the full scoop. The highlights include a new Add to Library menu item (to make it simpler to add things to your library), the addition of Date Created to List view mode, and a new entry in the contextual menu that lets you quickly mark a movie—or group of movies—as watched (or unwatched) without having to first open them.

As always, updates are available via in-app updating, or you can download the full programs from their respective web pages.

If you think these minor changes are exciting, make sure you come back Thursday, when we’ll be adding a brand new item to the Many Tricks’ menu! We’ve been sampling it ourselves for a few months now, and we think it’s a delicious addition to our existing menu…er…product line—we can’t wait to see what you all think of it, too!

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Usher 1.0.2 adds Aperture support

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

This update to Usher includes one major new feature, and a number of improvements and bug fixes. The major new feature is basic Aperture support—Usher will now find and show videos in Aperture, as it does for iPhoto and iTunes. The only limitation is that we’re unable to bring across the video keywords, as we can do with iPhoto videos.

We’ve also added New Folder buttons to dialogs (where it makes sense, as when selecting library folders), and expanded the in-app help file to cover Supplementary Folders, which are a very cool Usher feature.

There are some other minor bug fixes and improvements, too—read the release notes for the full scoop.

As always, the update is available via in-app updating, or by downloading the full program from Usher’s web page.

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Usher 1.0.1 addresses mkv and iTunes video issues

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

When we sent the initial release of Usher out the door, we knew there would probably be a few bugs—this is a large and complex program, and despite the large test group, it seems you can’t always catch everything before release.

Such was the case here…for most people, Usher worked perfectly. There were a few folks with some issues, however, so Peter’s been burning the weekend hours addressing those issues. Instead of waiting for Monday, we thought we’d push this update out today, to get it in everyone’s hands as quickly as possible.

A few users reported that Usher wouldn’t see their iTunes videos; Usher 1.0.1 should fix that problem. We also had reports from users with large collections of movies in non-native QuickTime formats (e.g. mkv files) about incredibly slow initial import times. Usher 1.0.1 includes much better logic for handling these movie formats (which are very slow to work with in QuickTime), so the initial import stage should go much faster.

You can read about a couple other small changes on the Usher release notes page. You can get the new version via in-app updating, or directly from the Usher web page.

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Usher 1.0 ushers in a new era in movie management

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Usher iconWe’re thrilled—beyond thrilled, actually—to announce the release of Usher 1.0 today. Usher is Many Tricks’ movie management and viewing application. If you collect videos—be they from cell phones, digital video cameras, internet downloads, ripped DVDs, or wherever, Usher is the tool to help you gain control over your collection.

The list of features is immense; check out the Usher web page to get a sense for its capabilities. We’ve really worked hard to make this a solid release, as yFlicks was a much-loved and much-used program that, sadly, stopped working a couple of major OS X releases ago. While Usher is the spiritual successor to yFlicks, the number of new and/or greatly improved features, along with the completely revamped interface, make it essentially a brand-new program. That’s why we tested Usher with our largest-ever group of beta testers—Usher is a large, complex program, and we wanted it to be as issue-free as possible.

Keep reading to see a small sampling of Usher’s features, and for full information on purchasing or upgrading to (including free upgrades for many yFlicks users) Usher.

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Announcing the Usher limited public beta

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

What is Usher, you may be wondering? Usher is the new name for yFlicks. The name yFlicks never really captured the real mission of the application; we think Usher is a much better fit: Usher is your personal movie assistant.

There are a ton of new and/or improved features in this update to yFlicks, which is why we’ve also chosen to reset the version counter: this release will be Usher 1.0 to reflect the scale of the changes. Due to the sheer number of changes, there are also probably some 1.0-type issues in Usher…and that’s why we’re releasing it now as a limited public beta. We’re looking for people who are willing to really help us test Usher and find all those little glitches–so we can remove them before we ship Usher.

We’re looking for 25 to 30 testers for Usher’s limited public beta, but we’re interested in people who can really help stress test Usher. To that end, we’re looking for people who meet at least one of these three criteria:

  1. Existing yFlicks users with between 1 and 3,000 movies in their collection.
  2. Existing yFlicks users with over 3,000 movies in their collection.
  3. Non yFlicks users who are looking for a tool to help them manage their collections.

If you’d like to participate in this public beta, please send me an email, with the subject set to Usher beta. Important: In the body of the message, please let me know which of the above groups you fall into, and include the (approximate) number of movies in your collection. If you’re selected for the beta, you will receive a copy of Usher to test, along with further instructions on how to go about helping us test Usher.

As an incentive to help test, the top three testers–based on reporting the most (confirmed) issues–will receive a free license for all of Many Tricks’ products. So what are you waiting for…drop me an email and get your name in the hat for one of the limited testing spots!

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