Archive for April, 2012

Keymo, Time Sink, and Key Codes updated today

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Today we released Keymo 1.1 (it’s first-ever update), Time Sink 1.2.1, and Key Codes 1.2. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in each one.

Keymo
We now support the very-often-requested ability to set custom move distances. Not only can you set custom distances, but Keymo will build a menu of your custom distances, making it easy to reuse them. You can also chain actions together, as you can with Moom. [All Keymo changes]

Time Sink
There are no new features in this Time Sink update; the only changes of note are that Time Sink now ignores floating windows, and we fixed a bug related to application-specific window blacklists. [All Time Sink changes]

Key Codes
Key Codes’ display of key combos that include modifier keys has been improved.

Updates for Keymo and Time Sink can be found via the in-app updater (direct customers), or via the App Store application. Key Codes doesn’t have an in-app updater, so if you downloaded it from us, just download the new version. (App Store customers can update Key Codes via the App Store application.)

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Touch up Tuesdays return: Moom and Witch updated

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Moom 2.4.1 and Witch 3.9 were released this morning, for both direct and App Store customers.

The big news in Witch 3.9 is the Font pop-up menu on the Behavior tab of Witch’s settings panel/window. This is our solution to the “fat font” problem introduced (thanks to Xcode) in Witch 3.8.

Click the Font pop-up menu—and be patient; the first load will take a few seconds—and you can then choose any font on your system for use in the switcher panel. I’m partial to Eurostile, but pick the one you prefer.


The use of Webdings is not advised, unless you’re a fluent reader of Webdings.

You can read about the rest of the changes in Witch 3.9 on the release notes page.

Moom 2.4.1 isn’t as big of an update in terms of eye-catching new features. We did, however, make Moom (and Witch, for that matter) work much better with the virtual keyboard apps Synergy and Teleport (and our own Butler). We’ve also made some changes to how Moom interacts with additional displays; we think it’s now ever smarter than it was. You can find all the changes on Moom’s release notes page.

Both apps can be updated within the app or by downloading a new copy from our site (for direct customers), or via the App Store’s Updates tab (App store customers).

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Name Mangler 2.5.1 released

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Name Mangler 2.5.1 is out, available for direct customers via in-app updating (or by downloading the full version from our site), and for App Store customers via the Updates tab in the App Store application.

There’s only one change in this version, but it’s an important one. If a rename operation will remove the extension from one (or more) filenames, then Name Mangler will ask you to confirm that this is what you really want to do.

In older versions of Mac OS X (and the Mac OS in general), the loss of an extension wasn’t a big deal—the system didn’t rely on extensions to determine which program should open a given file. Now, however, extensions are quite important; remove the extension from a PNG file, for instance, and OS X will probably think that file is now a Unix Executable file. It’s important to note that the file itself hasn’t been damaged; if you put the extension back, it will work as it did before.

Given OS X’s relatively new reliance on extensions, we felt it important that Name Mangler ask you to reconfirm your intent to remove filename extensions before doing so.

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