{"id":4618,"date":"2017-05-16T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:18:09","slug":"moom-3-2-8-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4618","title":{"rendered":"Moom 3.2.8 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, we released <a href=\"\/\/manytricks.com\/moom\">Moom<\/a> 3.2.8, which has only one change from Moom 3.2.7, released the day before. The update is available directly from us (via in-app updater, or by downloading it from our site), and it should be available in the Mac App Store app shortly, if not already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatrightcontainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blogimages\/hexgrid.png\" class=\"nonzoomingscreenshot\" style=\"max-width: 213px\"><\/p>\n<p>The one change was to the grid, which switched from rectangular (with the circles of 3.2.7) to the new hexagonal layout, as seen at right.<\/p>\n<p>Why did we change the design? Late last week, we learned there&#8217;s a US patent that covers resizing windows using a rectangular grid in a miniature preview image. We learned this when the patent&#8217;s owner told us they believed Moom&#8217;s grid was infringing on their patent. For now, we have redesigned the grid in such a way that no infringement claim can be made, and we&#8217;re working on further improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Comments are closed on this post, as we wish to inform you as to what happened, not to start a debate on software patents in general, or this patent in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, we released Moom 3.2.8, which has only one change from Moom 3.2.7, released the day before. The update is available directly from us (via in-app updater, or by downloading it from our site), and it should be available in the Mac App Store app shortly, if not already. The one change was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news","category-moom","category-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}