Unfortunately, because of persistent signups by spam users (probably driven by a script somewhere), I’ve decided to disable the facility to sign up to this site.

Really the only reason for allowing people to sign up in the first place was to in turn limit posting of comments and forums posts to registered users, again to avoid spam.

As a result, turning off sign-up may make it impossible for people to leave comments or use the forum. This is a real shame, but the alternative is just too annoying to police. In the meantime I’ll look into some alternatives. I may re-enable anonymous posting, along with captcha forms, but I fear that doing so will also result in a torrent of spam.

Very irritating…

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.

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.

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.

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.