First of all, we’d just like to say thank you! yFlicks was quite a success with the macZOT community. When we negotiated this offer, macZOT gave us an estimate of the number of licenses they thought we would be able to sell, based on their usual sales figures and consisting of a minimum and a maximum number.

We sold almost three times the maximum estimate.

And macZOT buyers are no different from our other customers, inasmuch as they ask for tag support a lot. You really seem to be waiting for this — waiting for a way to store a movie’s director and its genre, for instance, in your movie library. So we thought we might as well let you know that we’re working on tags right now. And there’s a reason why we are taking our time for this: We want to do it right; and we think we do. In fact, this could easily turn into the most intelligent tagging mechanism you have ever seen — most notably when combined with smart groups.

And who knows… There may be an even bigger picture to this.

If you have been pondering buying yFlicks, our movie viewer/manager, today might be the perfect day to do just that. We’re offering yFlicks at a special introductory price of just $11.95 on macZOT; so head on over there and get it.

As always with macZOT, this offer is only valid for one day.

yFlicks 2.0.1 adds support for downloading videos from DailyMotion and CollegeHumor. And now that Mac OS X 10.5 has been demoed in its final form, we thought we might as well throw in an optional Leopard-style main window behavior/texture that changes its hue depending on whether yFlicks is the frontmost application.

Also improves context menus and fixes two minor, yet pesky bugs that prompted us to release this update as soon as possible — see the changes log for more details.

yFlicks 2.0 is such a huge step forward, we were actually considering calling it yFlicks 3.0.

Seriously: There are more improvements than we can even remember right now, but the two most important things are full support for the Apple Remote — including access to all of your library just by hitting the “Menu” button — and the option to have yFlicks keep your library organized. The latter is quite similar to what iTunes does with your music: Name changes as well as your library’s folder structure are automatically reflected on the file system level when you enable this feature. If you’re interested in a more extensive list of changes, look here.

Oh, and by the way: yFlicks 2.0 is a free upgrade for registered users.

yFlicks 1.1 adds smart groups, which let you filter all of your library’s contents by criteria such as name, rating, and date added. We’re also supporting downloads from two more video communities now, namely SevenLoad and ClipFish.

Update: There was a small typo in the original source code for yFlicks 1.1 that prevented you from deleting groups. Just download yFlicks 1.1 once more if you’re experiencing this problem.

yFlicks 1.0.2 mainly improves drag & drop support. For instance, yFlicks now generates groups automatically whenever you add file system folders to its library, representing subfolder hierarchies as nested groups where appropriate.

Moreover, you can now define seperate sorting criteria for each group. These criteria are also reflected in the library view on the left hand side of yFlicks’ main window.