The Elegant Chaos Blog

April 27, 2012

I’ve just found and squished another little Ambientweet bug, which could occasionally cause problems when posting a tweet with a URL in it.

Consequently, there’s a new beta available - 1.1b5. Unfortunately a new beta also means resetting the clock on the Apple store review process, so we’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope it doesn’t take too long…

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I just had a weird glitch where I realised that iCal wasn’t showing the birthdays calendar, even though the relevant preference was turned on.

I looked on iCloud, and sure enough the birthdays were showing up there - proving that I hadn’t somehow lost the data from my address book.

In the end I found a simple solution:

  • Open iCal preferences
  • Turn off “Show Birthdays calendar”
  • Quit
  • Launch iCal again
  • Open iCal preferences
  • Turn on “Show Birthdays calendar”

Lo and behold, back came the calendar, and the events showed up as they should.

Go figure…

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April 15, 2012

Hopefully this is the final beta of 1.1.

I’ve now turned on Apple’s sandboxing, in preparation for submitting it to the Mac App store.

Sandboxing makes it run in a slightly more secure environment, though hopefully users will not notice the difference.

Pick up a copy of the latest beta from the beta software page…

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April 15, 2012

And hot on the heels of 1.1b2, here’s another beta.

This one shows a reminder “tweet” every now and then if you’re running a beta version, or a demo version (this is in preparation for finally charging something for the App Store version, at which point there really needs to be some difference between it and the demo!).

Grab the new version from the beta software page.

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April 14, 2012

Another beta, with a couple of bug fixes.

  • The auto-completion when posting new tweets now behaves a bit more sensibly and doesn’t keep popping up when you’ve just done a completion.
  • The mentions badge should be a bit saner now, tweets that are mentions get cached properly so it should always know if incoming mentions are actually new or not

Grab the new version from the beta software page.

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