2006's news archive

Merry Christmas and happy new year to everybody.

What a year. Mp3 Filter conversion to dupeGuru ME. dupeGuru PE. Windows GUI conversion from Delphi to C#. I told you last year that 2006 would be my most productive year ever. Now I gotta slow down a bit or I'll overheat.

I often try new stuff, and when it's interesting, it's dangerous for me to get hooked. This time, it was C#. At first, it was just to try, and then, I ended up re-implementing dupeGuru's windows interface in C# and Python for .Net. And while looking for an implementation of a TreeView with columns, I stumbled upon TreeViewAdv. It's a nice component, but I made so many changes to it that I ended up making my own fork of it. Therefore, you can probably expect a .NET release of my applications shortly.

I release today musicGuru 1.2.0, which feature a quite big under-the-hood re-factoring. There isn't any new features (except slightly better overall performances and auto-update), but some will come pretty soon.

The Mac OS X version of dupeGuru Picture Edition didn't work on PowerPC macs. Fixed it.

Say hello to the all new and shiny dupeGuru Picture Edition! This edition of dupeGuru can find duplicates among pictures of different format and quality.

I received my new Intel iMac Friday. Pyobjc 1.4, now supporting universal binaries, was released in June. Everything is there for me to produce universal binaries. I release dupeGuru 2.2.6 today as a universal application. I will do the same for dupeGuru ME and musicGuru this week.

Since the beginning of July, I was on a hiking trip in Gaspesie, on the International Appalachian Trail. I originally wanted to walk the whole Quebec part of it (Matapedia to Cap Gaspe. About 650 km), but after about 200 km, in the middle of the Matane Wildlife Reserve, when the Chic Chocs mountains begin to be quite high, I realized that neither my training or my footwear were adequate for this. Therefore, I'm back earlier than I expected, and I'm back to work. I'll train harder for my next try.

dupeGuru Music Edition 5.0.0 is finally there. It replaces Mp3 Filter and features a completely redesigned interface, as well as support for Mac OS X.

dupeGuru 2.2.0 is available, featuring most of the nice stuff that was added to dupeGuru Music Edition, as well as a new icon. Whew, big day!

dupeGuru Music Edition Beta 5 (The first public beta was beta 4) is available. You can get it for Windows [link no longer valid] and for Mac OS X [link no longer valid].

Mp3 Filter is going to have a new name: dupeGuru Music Edition 5.0. A public beta version of it is available for Windows [link no longer valid] and for Mac OS X [link no longer valid]. dupeGuru ME is like dupeGuru, but it has more information columns (Duration, Bitrate, ID3 tag...) and more scan types (compare by tag and compare by audio content).

I published dupeGuru 2.1.2 today, which features a new "Match similar words" option.

The more I listen to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Show Your Bones, the more I like it. It probably means that it will go in my top albums list. It went like this for pretty much all of them: I don't really like it at the first listening, and like it more with each listening session, until it gets among my favorites. It happened for the 3 best albums ever: Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica, The White Stripes - White Blood Cells and The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan. Elephant doesn't qualify because Seven Nation Army and The Air Near My Fingers were groovy from the first listen and will probably be until the last.

Enough. I published dupeGuru 2.1.1. It has a couple of bugs related to the Power Marker fixed, as well as a new, really nice option. This option is "Display delta values for duplicates". When you turn it on, the Size, Creation and Modification columns display the difference between the duplicate's value and its reference's value. For example, if a duplicate is 1.2 MB and its reference is 1.4 MB, the Size column will display -0.2. This feature really gets useful when used with the Power Marker.

Released today, Mp3 Filter 4.2.5 has exclusion patterns and WMA decoding issues fixed.

There's a new dupeGuru version (2.1.0) today with a new nice little feature: Power Marking. Power Marking lets you make block selections that weren't possible before (such as easily select all duplicates having a specific extension).

I published musicGuru 1.1.0 today. Design Board interface and speed are the two main improvements in this version. Next target, Mp3 Filter!

That's it, dupeGuru 2.0 is now released. This version is a complete rewrite, and it now runs on Mac OS X.

dupeGuru 2.0 development is pretty advanced right now. Today, I publish a beta version of what will be dupeGuru 2.0. You can download either the Windows version [link no longer valid] or the Mac OS X version [link no longer valid].

musicGuru 1.0.8 was released today. It includes some more minor bugfixes.

musicGuru 1.0.4 was released today. It includes a couple of minor bugfixes.

webGuru had a couple of long standing issues that I had to fix, and that's what I did, now that I'm not 100% focused on musicGuru anymore. If you already have a prior version of webGuru installed on your computer, please uninstall it before installing this one.

I released musicGuru 1.0.1 today. The initial release had a couple of minor issues. Of course, they are now fixed.

That's it! musicGuru 1.0 is finally out, both for Windows and Mac OS X. You can take a look at it here.