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…
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…
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.
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.
I’ve been rather busy recently with all sorts of contracting work, but I’m glad to announce that in between it all I’ve been slowly working away on additions to both Ambientweet and Neu.
First up for public preview is Ambientweet 1.1b1.
The main thing that’s new in this release is the ability to focus Ambientweet on a search term and have it cycle through tweets that contain it.
This opens up a pretty handy new use for Ambientweet - if there’s a term trending or a topic that you particularly want to follow, you can set Ambientweet up to display just those tweets (perhaps whilst you continue to view your own stream with another client).
Feel free to give the beta a try….