I’m happy to say that Ambientweet 1.1 has been approved for release and is now in the store.

The main changes in this version are:

• Added ability to view the results of a search.
• Fixed bug where a message containing links could get truncated.
• Fixed clipping of author info when it spills onto three lines.
• Fixed auto-completion window popping up again straight away after a completion.
• Improved tweet caching so that mentions are always kept - this stops the badge being shown again for mentions that have already been seen.
• Added a “psuedo tweet” which is a reminder that you’re running a pre-release or unlicensed version of Ambientweet (if you are). It is inserted into the tweet stream every now and then.
• Improved application security.

You can find more details, and download links, on the Ambientweet home page.

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…

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.