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Today we I have released TrackTime 1.2.4

New Features in 1.2.4

• Allows you to edit a project activity record
• Better stopping/starting of projects from menu

Fixes in 1.2.4

• Fixes scrolling bug for Leopard users

The current version of TrackTime has a feature where it watches your browser usage telling you what web pages have been viewed. One of the most common features requested for TrackTime is to extend this functionality to all other applications so that you not only see that an application was in use but what that application was doing. For example if you were using Microsoft Word, TrackTime should not only track that you were using MS Word but should track what document you were editing as well.

The good news is this functionality is planned for TrackTime 2.
The bad news is there is no single way to implement this functionality. Even with the current browser tracking TrackTime has to individually handle each browser type (Safari, Camino, Firefox etc). differently. In fact it can be worse than that as often it has to handle different versions of the same browser differently.

So although this feature is planned for TrackTime 2 there will be some limitations.

TrackTime 2 will only be able to supply this functionality for applications that support AppleScript and have a script dictionary that allows this required information to be obtained

TrackTime2 will by default support this functionality for a number of the most common applications but will allow you to define your own scripts for applications it doesn't support by default.

Your comments are now required to help me know if this is an acceptable approach for most people.

Today we have released TrackTime 1.2.3 which is a minor update add just one feature and fixing one bug.

New Features in 1.2.3

• Adds support for webpage tracking in the Flock browser

Fixes in 1.2.3

• Fixes a small error with webpage tracking when using Firefox or BonEcho

TrackTime 1.2.2 has been released. This version fixes a bug when deleting projects.
This release of Tracktime is Leopard Compatible

Tracktime 1.2 has been released today. This release contains no new features but hopefully improves performance on most peoples machines.

This release of TrackTime also moves its data from an XML file to a SQLite store (TrackTime120.ttd) . All existing data will be converted when tracktime is first started after upgrading.

You cant always control the way you do business. There are a number of things that I don't like about TrackTime that I am intending on fixing/changing in the next release. It has been my intention to keep reasonably quiet about TrackTime until this is done.

However Daniel Jalkut mentioned Event Maker and TrackTime in a recent blog post. This has caused a rush of downloads. So much for keeping my head down until the next release.

Now I have a load of people telling me of deficiencies in the program that I already know about and don't like myself. When I respond to them I openly admit that these things are not great and they will be changing soon which I am sure is not the best way of selling a product but I am an honesty first type of person.

One thing this demonstrates that no matter how hard you try you cant control the market your selling to.

Ok so leopard doesn't quite look like my "Future of the Desktop" post but at least it had a go in the form of Stacks

Since doing a Late Night Cocoa interview with Rob Rix and Allan Odgaard about using TextMate for Cocoa development I have been giving it go and I have to say its pretty darn good. The ObjC support works well and if your prepared to change the overall update settings from minor or major updates to cutting edge you get reasonable although definitely not complete code completion support.

The main trouble with TextMate is when you first start using it your not quite sure what It can do and how to do it. I recomend you look for the Objective-C Screenscasts on the TextMate website and that should keep you going. Of course when it gets released in a couple of weeks time you can always use the TextMate episode of Late Night Cocoa to get you started.

Release Date 28th May 2007

This is a vital update please download and install

Fixes

This update fixes a critical bug that caused TrackTime to lose all data from the current session when it was closed. It also contains a fix when tracking music files that don't have an artist set within their metadata.

Mamooba announced today that it has acquired Tracktime, the popular utility time/activity logging software from omz:software.
The acquisition promises an exciting future for TrackTime.

With TrackTime you can view your activities on a beautiful Timeline. You can view your activity by any period. You can quickly see what matters to you through statistics for applications, music and websites as well as for your own defined projects.

At the time of acquisition Tracktime is at release 1.15 and will be on sale at for a limited time at $14.95. With its normal price being set at $19.95

Mamooba wish to acknowledge the excellent work of Ole Zorn, the original developer of TrackTime, who is also responsible for developing Tabula Magica and Tabula Rasa.

Mamooba is a privately held company focused on Macintosh software development. For more information on mamooba and its products visit http://www.mamooba.com

For more information on omz:software visit http://omz-software.de/

OK so when we released out last Beta we forgot to turn a few things back on and this quite rightly upset a few of you. So here they are back in 0.5.1

The the following features are turned back on

• Make Event Preferences Tab
• Prompt for Missing Scripts check box in the Scripts tab of the preference window

Event Maker is designed to be a streamlined way of taking e-mails from Apple’s Mail application and creating iCal calendar events from them. In addition to this, Event Maker can also be used simply to make an event in iCal from scratch.

Today we released the next Beta version of Event Maker. While it is in Beta Event Maker is available for free

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Event Maker is designed to be a streamlined way of taking e-mails from Apple’s Mail application and creating iCal calendar events from them. In addition to this, Event Maker can also be used simply to make an event in iCal from scratch.

Today we released the next Beta version of Event Maker. While it is in Beta Event Maker is available for free

Mamooba announced today that it has acquired Event Maker, the popular mail/iCal integration utility, from Solewood Software.
The acquisition promises an exciting future for Event Maker.

Event Maker is designed to be a streamlined way of taking e-mails from Apple’s Mail application and creating iCal calendar events from them. In addition to this, Event Maker can also be used simply to make an event in iCal from scratch.

At the time of acquisition Event Maker is in Beta (0.4.6). Mamooba hope to bring version 1.0 to market in the very near future.

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