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….

So, NSConference 2012 has finished. I wanted it to go on for another week, but alas it was impossible, and that many cooked breakfasts probably wouldn’t have been advisable.

I won’t go for a full on summary of the whole thing - a few other folks have been doing a good job of that.

Here’s a quick take on my initial thoughts though. After further reflection I may have more, or may revise these ones.

The Good

• Seeing old friends
• Making new friends
• Some great inspirational talks
• Lots of valuable Nuggets Of Information (tm)
• Tom bringing me my favourite beer

The Un-Good*

• Not enough technical content for me this year
• Some (undeniably brilliant) speakers essentially doing the same talk as last year
• Quality of the blitz talks varied wildly, and I think I preferred them being elsewhere
• The conference clearly needs more QR codes

(*this may be a bad translation)

Overall though - another fantastic experience. Many thanks to Scotty and the whole team for looking after us all so well.