I’ve just released a new version of Neu - 1.0b22.

You can now run Neu with neither a menubar or a presence in the Dock, and the Dock menu for Neu now has a slightly different set up of items in it compared to the status menu.

Double-clicking on an item in the grid view now behaves as if “Create” was clicked.

I’ve added a Hot Key for “Create and Open” as well as “Create”.

There’s a new preferences panel to edit which filetypes get keyword expansion applied to them.

I’m still working on the infrastructure for purchasing the application, and there’s now a reminder window for unlicensed copies. Whilst it is still free, if you would like to help me test neu, please download it. If you’d like a free license, to help test the registration system and to get rid of the reminder window, send me some feedback and in return I’ll send you a license file which will continue to work once the application has been released.

In addition to this I’m also working on a Mac Application Store version of the application, which I hope will be available when the store opens.

As you may have noticed, I’ve been trimming down the content of this site now that I’ve split my personal pages off onto Born Sleepy.

For now at least I’m aiming for a very simple front page with just a list of products and a small news section on the right-hand side bar. Other areas of the site are still accessible from the navigation links at the top-right, but even these should now be minimal.

Let me know what you think of the new look. Is it too simple? Is there some vital information missing?

I’ve decided to split off my personal pages and blog from this site, and move them to a sister site Born Sleepy.

For now the new site is a clone of the old one, but they will gradually diverge. I want to simplify the main Elegant Chaos website and remove some of the more personal stuff from it so that it’s a little less confusing for people who arrive at the site simply wanting to know about Elegant Chaos and the software we sell.

If you have an RSS/Atom subscription to my blog (or the whole of this site), you might want to head over to Born Sleepy and subscribe there instead.

For the sake of history, and to preserve old links, I will continue to host all previous posts on both sites, but as time goes on I will set up some permanent (http 301) redirections to try to teach the search engines etc where the definitive copy now lives.

Well, the electrical work seems to have finished, and other that a bit of local DNS weirdness that I’m experiencing here, everything seems to be ok.

Let me know if you have any problems viewing this site.

We’re having some electrical work done here at Chaos Towers in the next day or two*, which I fear will mean that our servers may be coming and going a bit, since they are hosted locally.

So if everything disappears for a while on Thursday/Friday, fear not - it should be back by Saturday at the very latest.

(* it’s amazing how much power killer death rays draw - turns out that world domination can only be achieved with three-phase power**)

(** actually, that’s a lie, we just need a new fuse box***)

(*** or is it…?!)