WBC today released compatibility and bug fix updates for two more of our applications: iDupe and MoveTunes.
iDupe is an intelligent duplicates remover for iTunes. MoveTunes allows selective moving of iTunes music among volumes while retaining metadata such as ratings, artwork, and playlists.
The updates fix minor issues with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, thus certifying them for use on Apple's latest, and first non-cat, OS. Our Mavericks compatibility chart has been updated accordingly. All of our major products are now fully compatible.
In addition, these updates fix a few known bugs introduced with iTunes 11. The most significant of these involves preserving artwork when removing duplicates in iTunes (using iDupe) or adding moved tracks back to iTunes (using MoveTunes). For details on the bug fixes and other changes, please see the iDupe version history and the MoveTunes version history.
Finally, please note that we will be on holiday from November 24 through December 4, 2013. Please understand if any support inquiries are delayed during this period.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
CaliBrate Supports Mavericks
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to CaliBrate which makes it compatible with OS X Mavericks.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
Mavericks introduced one major known problem that caused Calendar to hang when CaliBrate attempted to copy or move events between calendars.
The problem is caused by a new bug in Mavericks, which makes it impossible to set exceptions to a recurrence rule on a new event without causing Calendar to hang. Unfortunately at this time there is no known work around for this bug, which we have reported to Apple.
Consequently, until Apple fixes this bug, CaliBrate (when used on OS X 10.9+) will make no attempt to set exceptions to recurrence rules when creating new events. This means, for example, that if you have an event that repeats every Monday except certain, specific dates, when CaliBrate copies that event to another calendar, the copy will repeat every Monday without exceptions.
CaliBrate now also explains this situation in the info box before performing a copy or move action.
Please see the version history for details. Please also see the limitations section under CaliBrate's about tab.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
Mavericks introduced one major known problem that caused Calendar to hang when CaliBrate attempted to copy or move events between calendars.
The problem is caused by a new bug in Mavericks, which makes it impossible to set exceptions to a recurrence rule on a new event without causing Calendar to hang. Unfortunately at this time there is no known work around for this bug, which we have reported to Apple.
Consequently, until Apple fixes this bug, CaliBrate (when used on OS X 10.9+) will make no attempt to set exceptions to recurrence rules when creating new events. This means, for example, that if you have an event that repeats every Monday except certain, specific dates, when CaliBrate copies that event to another calendar, the copy will repeat every Monday without exceptions.
CaliBrate now also explains this situation in the info box before performing a copy or move action.
Please see the version history for details. Please also see the limitations section under CaliBrate's about tab.
Friday, November 1, 2013
OmniGrowl Update Actually Fixes Trial Limitation
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to OmniGrowl which really, truly, fixes the trial expiry at launch bug.
Unregistered users were seeing a trial expired message immediately after launching OmniGrowl. The intent is for OmniGrowl to be fully functional for 6 hours of use per launch, regardless of whether it is registered or not.
Last week we released a Mavericks compatibility update that we thought had also fixed that bug. It turns out that OmniGrowl was still evaluating trial expiration relative to the application build time, not the launch time. It was a silly error on our part. This should now truly be fixed and we apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us if this still occurs on your system.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
Unregistered users were seeing a trial expired message immediately after launching OmniGrowl. The intent is for OmniGrowl to be fully functional for 6 hours of use per launch, regardless of whether it is registered or not.
Last week we released a Mavericks compatibility update that we thought had also fixed that bug. It turns out that OmniGrowl was still evaluating trial expiration relative to the application build time, not the launch time. It was a silly error on our part. This should now truly be fixed and we apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us if this still occurs on your system.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
Friday, October 25, 2013
OmniGrowl Update Supports Mavericks, Fixes Trial Limitation
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to OmniGrowl which supports OS X Mavericks, and fixes a couple of important bugs.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
The most important bug fixed is that in many cases, unregistered users were seeing a trial expired message immediately after launching OmniGrowl. The intent is for OmniGrowl to be fully functional for 6 hours of use per launch, regardless of whether it is registered or not. We believe this has now been fixed. Please contact us if this occurs on your system.
OmniGrowl will now display notifications when playing iTunes Radio with iTunes 11, even when "full notifications" is selected. Previously OmniGrowl only showed iTunes Radio notifications if "basic notifications" was selected.
Please note that the "Events" tab remains intentionally blank, while we continue to search for a suitable reliable data source to replace Yahoo Upcoming.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
The most important bug fixed is that in many cases, unregistered users were seeing a trial expired message immediately after launching OmniGrowl. The intent is for OmniGrowl to be fully functional for 6 hours of use per launch, regardless of whether it is registered or not. We believe this has now been fixed. Please contact us if this occurs on your system.
OmniGrowl will now display notifications when playing iTunes Radio with iTunes 11, even when "full notifications" is selected. Previously OmniGrowl only showed iTunes Radio notifications if "basic notifications" was selected.
Please note that the "Events" tab remains intentionally blank, while we continue to search for a suitable reliable data source to replace Yahoo Upcoming.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Cast Away Update Addresses Compatibility
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes more issues related to iTunes 11.x. iTunes 11.0 and 11.1 introduced bugs that have been partially fixed by Apple with iTunes 11.1.1. Therefore Cast Away now requires 11.1.1 or higher or many versions of iTunes below iTunes 11.0.
Unfortunately there are still bugs in iTunes relating to removing undownloaded ("cloud") podcasts so this feature remains disabled in this version.
This release is believed to fix an issue related to the creation of the disc image with the previous version, which prevented the application from opening on certain systems.
Lastly, provisional compatibility testing on Mavericks is complete. Final certification will follow.
Please see the version history for details.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes more issues related to iTunes 11.x. iTunes 11.0 and 11.1 introduced bugs that have been partially fixed by Apple with iTunes 11.1.1. Therefore Cast Away now requires 11.1.1 or higher or many versions of iTunes below iTunes 11.0.
Unfortunately there are still bugs in iTunes relating to removing undownloaded ("cloud") podcasts so this feature remains disabled in this version.
This release is believed to fix an issue related to the creation of the disc image with the previous version, which prevented the application from opening on certain systems.
Lastly, provisional compatibility testing on Mavericks is complete. Final certification will follow.
Please see the version history for details.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Cast Away Update Fixes Issues with iTunes 11
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes a variety of issues related to iTunes 11.
Please see the version history for details.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes a variety of issues related to iTunes 11.
Please see the version history for details.
Friday, September 20, 2013
iTunes 11.1 Issues for Cast Away and OmniGrowl Users
Likely incompatibilities with iTunes 11.1 and two of our products have come to our attention. Here are the known issues to date:
After installing iTunes 11.1, you are presented with an new "welcome" screen in iTunes specifically for Podcasts. If you do not open that before Cast Away next runs, Cast Away may report inaccurate removals and other errors. (Podcasts are not erroneously removed; merely the reporting is inaccurate.)
Cast Away is failing to remove undownloaded podcasts from the list when specified. It may be impossible to delete these "cloud" episodes from the list with iTunes 11.1, which might explain why.
OmniGrowl does not recognize iTunes Radio for notifications. We're looking into whether a fix for that is possible on our end, or whether Apple would need to make changes to iTunes to allow such notifications.
Other minor issues may exist with other products related to iTunes. We are looking into them and will issue compatibility upgrades as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
After installing iTunes 11.1, you are presented with an new "welcome" screen in iTunes specifically for Podcasts. If you do not open that before Cast Away next runs, Cast Away may report inaccurate removals and other errors. (Podcasts are not erroneously removed; merely the reporting is inaccurate.)
Cast Away is failing to remove undownloaded podcasts from the list when specified. It may be impossible to delete these "cloud" episodes from the list with iTunes 11.1, which might explain why.
OmniGrowl does not recognize iTunes Radio for notifications. We're looking into whether a fix for that is possible on our end, or whether Apple would need to make changes to iTunes to allow such notifications.
Other minor issues may exist with other products related to iTunes. We are looking into them and will issue compatibility upgrades as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Cast Away Update Improves Scheduling
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update improves handling of the daily schedule, which should now work more reliably on OS X 10.8 and higher.
For the technically inclined, Cast Away had been using cron to schedule podcast removal, and now uses launchd on OS X 10.7 and higher.
A bug relating to iTunes U was also fixed.
Please see the version history for details.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update improves handling of the daily schedule, which should now work more reliably on OS X 10.8 and higher.
For the technically inclined, Cast Away had been using cron to schedule podcast removal, and now uses launchd on OS X 10.7 and higher.
A bug relating to iTunes U was also fixed.
Please see the version history for details.
Friday, May 10, 2013
OmniGrowl Update Fixes AMG & OED, Removes Support for Yahoo Upcoming
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to OmniGrowl which fixes issues with AMG artist biography notifications and Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Word of the Day Notifications. It also fixes an issue with authenticated RSS feeds.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
Unfortunately, with this release, we have had to remove support for local events provided by Yahoo. Prior to this month, OmniGrowl could notify you of public events in your area. It drew its data from Yahoo Upcoming, which Yahoo shut down in May 2013.
Thus far, we have unfortunately been able to find a suitable data source for local events with anything close to global coverage. After an initial assessment, we have found the data of eventful to be too sparse outside of concerts which OmniGrowl covers with other data sources, and the business model of zvents not amenable. (We are open to reconsideration of either given better information.) If and when one emerges, we will make every effort to restore support for local event notifications. Suggestions are welcome.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
Unfortunately, with this release, we have had to remove support for local events provided by Yahoo. Prior to this month, OmniGrowl could notify you of public events in your area. It drew its data from Yahoo Upcoming, which Yahoo shut down in May 2013.
Thus far, we have unfortunately been able to find a suitable data source for local events with anything close to global coverage. After an initial assessment, we have found the data of eventful to be too sparse outside of concerts which OmniGrowl covers with other data sources, and the business model of zvents not amenable. (We are open to reconsideration of either given better information.) If and when one emerges, we will make every effort to restore support for local event notifications. Suggestions are welcome.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
Friday, May 3, 2013
CaliBrate Updated and OmniGrowl and DevonSync News
Calibrate Updated
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to CaliBrate which improves support for adding attendees and fixes a bug affecting OS X 10.7+ that caused events copied between calendars to move them instead. Events are now copied rather than moved. Please see the version history for details.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
OmniGrowl, Yahoo Upcoming, and Local Events
We'd like to take this opportunity to address the situation with local events support in OmniGrowl. OmniGrowl provided local events notifications using Yahoo Upcoming, which is now defunct. The current version of OmniGrowl will work as normal, but the local events will no longer work.
While Yahoo announced it would sunset Upcoming long ago, it gave only two weeks notice before the eventual shut down date. WBC has been evaluating potential replacements, but so far has not found anything satisfactory. We welcome comments and suggestions in this forum thread. If no satisfactory replacement is found in short order, we will unfortunately need to simply remove this feature in a coming update.
DevonSync No Longer Supported or Sold
This announcement is overdue. DevonSync was always intended to be somewhat of a stopgap measure until DEVONthink supported synching natively. After a long beta period, DEVONtechnologies debuted native sync support for DEVONthink, a development which we warmly welcome. As of May 1, 2013, DevonSync will no longer be supported or sold. We'd like to thank our customers for your prior support.
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to CaliBrate which improves support for adding attendees and fixes a bug affecting OS X 10.7+ that caused events copied between calendars to move them instead. Events are now copied rather than moved. Please see the version history for details.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
OmniGrowl, Yahoo Upcoming, and Local Events
We'd like to take this opportunity to address the situation with local events support in OmniGrowl. OmniGrowl provided local events notifications using Yahoo Upcoming, which is now defunct. The current version of OmniGrowl will work as normal, but the local events will no longer work.
While Yahoo announced it would sunset Upcoming long ago, it gave only two weeks notice before the eventual shut down date. WBC has been evaluating potential replacements, but so far has not found anything satisfactory. We welcome comments and suggestions in this forum thread. If no satisfactory replacement is found in short order, we will unfortunately need to simply remove this feature in a coming update.
DevonSync No Longer Supported or Sold
This announcement is overdue. DevonSync was always intended to be somewhat of a stopgap measure until DEVONthink supported synching natively. After a long beta period, DEVONtechnologies debuted native sync support for DEVONthink, a development which we warmly welcome. As of May 1, 2013, DevonSync will no longer be supported or sold. We'd like to thank our customers for your prior support.
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