The Elegant Chaos Blog

August 04, 2011

I’ve had a few reports of the Services menu commands not showing up properly in Neu 1.1.

Instead of saying things like “Create Document…”, they are showing up as things like “create.name”.

If you’re having this problem, you might want to look at the new beta of Neu 1.1.1, which attempts to fix the problem.

For people who’ve bought Neu from the Mac Application store, I’m afraid that this beta will show up as unlicensed, so you shouldn’t remove your original 1.1 version of Neu until version 1.1.1 has made it’s way through the approval process.

I’m working on a way to sort this problem for future beta versions (so that they know that you’ve got a proper licensed copy from the MAS), but they will require you to already have version 1.1.1 installed, so there’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.

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July 12, 2011

I’m happy to say that Neu 1.1 has been approved by Apple, and is now available from the Mac App store, and from this website.

This version of Neu includes a number of improvements:

  • Added “behaviour” and “appearance” preference panes, removed “general” pane, reorganised preference items.
  • Improved handling of symbolic links, added support for Finder aliases, and added options relating to them. Added “Create Document On The Desktop…” and “Create And Open On The Desktop…” service menu commands.
  • When documents are created on the desktop, they are now just selected on the desktop in the Finder, rather than another “Desktop” window being opened.
  • Added some more substitution variables.
  • Switched Help to use an embedded PDF manual instead of Apple Help / web pages.
  • General bug fixes and improved OS support.

It doesn’t stop there though, work on Neu 1.2 is underway, so watch this space.

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June 23, 2011

Good news - Neu 1.1 has been submitted to the Mac App store, and is currently in review.

Meanwhile, for the brave-of-heart, beta version 1.1b5 is available from the betas page.

Work on version 1.2 is also well under way… more on that soon.

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June 15, 2011

Hot on the heels of the first one, I’ve just released a second beta of Neu 1.1.

In addition to the changes in 1.1b1, this version has a few tweaks to the default preferences, and a new pdf-based manual, available from the Help menu.

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June 14, 2011

I’m happy to announce that I’ve just released the first beta of Neu 1.1.

This is a relatively minor update, but there are a few new features as well as some bug fixes, hence the upgrade from .0 to .1…

Hilights from the change log include:

  • Added “behaviour” and “appearance” preference panes, removed “general” pane, reorganised preference items.
  • Improved handling of symbolic links, added support for Finder aliases, and added options relating to them.
  • Fixed a couple of bugs relating to template files and file extensions.
  • Improved OS X Lion support.
  • Added “Create Document On The Desktop…” and “Create And Open On The Desktop…” service menu commands.
  • When documents are created on the desktop, they are now just selected on the desktop in the Finder, rather than another “Desktop” window being opened.
  • Added some more substitution variables (templateFullName, templateName, templateActualName, templateType).
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