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2007-12-06 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.4.0 released (link)

  • Added customizable tag scans.
  • Improved the handling of low memory situations.
  • Improved the directory panel. The "Remove" button changes to "Put Back" when an excluded directory is selected.

2007-12-03 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.3.3 released (link)

  • Improved the handling of low memory situations.
  • Improved the directory panel. The "Remove" button changes to "Put Back" when an excluded directory is selected.
  • Fixed the directory selection dialog. iPhoto '08 library files can now be selected.

2007-11-26 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.3.2 released (link)

  • Added the "Remove empty folders" option.
  • Fixed results load/save issues.
  • Fixed occasional status bar inaccuracies when the results are filtered.

2007-11-24 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.3.2 released (link)

  • Added the "Remove empty folders" option.
  • Fixed results load/save issues.
  • Fixed occasional status bar inaccuracies when the results are filtered.

2007-11-22 -- dupeGuru 2.5.1 released (link)

  • Added the "Remove empty folders" option.
  • Fixed results load/save issues.
  • Fixed occasional status bar inaccuracies when the results are filtered.

2007-10-21 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.3.1 released (link)

  • Improved results loading speed.
  • Improved details panel's picture loading (made it asynchronous).
  • Fixed a bug where the stats line at the bottom would sometimes go confused while having a filter active.
  • Fixed a bug under Windows where some duplicate markings would be lost.

2007-10-19 -- musicGuru 1.3.3 released (link)

  • Added a way to change the path of a location.
  • Improved the speed of the Update Collection process.
  • Fixed various crashes related to external drives.
  • Fixed Unsplit CD/DVD, which sometimes left the design board in a messy state.
  • Fixed Split to DVD under Windows (It made musicGuru crash).

2007-10-07 -- musicGuru 1.3.2 released (link)

  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows.
  • Fixed a bug with non-latin directory names.
  • Fixed a bug on Add Location's cancel operation.
  • Fixed a small issue with AAC decoding.
  • Fixed a bug with Move operations to external drives.

2007-09-22 -- Mobile Virgil and resumed development (link)

From February to September, I was in Portland (Maine, USA) working full time for another company, which unfortunately greatly reduced my available development hours at Hardcoded Software.

This era is over, and a new one begins: Mobile Virgil :) I took a flight to Vienna (Austria) on the 20th and my plan is to go around Europe (mostly Poland, if it goes as planned). Although I don't plan to work as much as I did in 2006, I will still have much more time for Hardcoded Software than I did in the last 8 months. My to-do list has gotten rather large in these months and I hope to reduce it to nothing shortly.

2007-09-22 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.3.0 released (link)

  • Added post scan filtering.
  • Fixed issues with the rename feature under Windows.
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows.

2007-09-15 -- dupeGuru 2.5.0 released (link)

  • Added post scan filtering.
  • Fixed issues with the rename feature under Windows
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows

2007-08-12 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.3.1 released (link)

  • Fixed a crash with copy and move.

2007-07-01 -- Post-scan filtering (link)

I just released dupeGuru Music Edition 5.3.0 with a new feature: Post-scan filtering. With post-scan filtering, you can easily weed out duplicates like live and remix versions of your songs.

2007-07-01 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.3.0 released (link)

  • Added post scan filtering.
  • Fixed a small issue with AAC decoding.
  • Fixed issues with the rename feature under Windows.
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows.

2007-05-19 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.2.1 released (link)

  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Improved result load/save speed and memory usage.

2007-04-14 -- dupeGuru 2.4.8 released (link)

  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Improved result load/save speed and memory usage.

2007-03-31 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.2.7 released (link)

  • Fixed a crash sometimes happening while loading results.

2007-03-25 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.2.6 released (link)

  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Improved result load/save speed and memory usage.
  • Fixed a "bad file descriptor" error occasionally popping up.
  • Fixed a bug with non-latin directory names.
  • Fixed a column mixup under Windows. The Artist column couldn't be shown.
  • Fixed a bug causing the sorting under Power Marker mode not to work under Mac OS X.

2007-03-17 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.2.0 released (link)

  • Changed the picture decoding libraries for both Mac OS X and Windows. The Mac OS X version uses the Core Graphics library and the Windows version uses the .NET framework imaging capabilities. This results in much faster scans. As a bonus, the Mac OS X version of dupeGuru PE now supports RAW images.

2007-03-10 -- dupeGuru 2.4.7 released (link)

  • Fixed a "bad file descriptor" error occasionally popping up.
  • Fixed a bug with non-latin directory names.

2007-03-04 -- Vista and dupeGuru PE (link)

I bought Windows Vista and I'm testing my applications on it. It runs without a hitch so far.

I'm preparing a big update for dupeGuru PE. It is going to use native picture handlers (Core Image on OS X and .NET Image class on Windows) instead of PIL. It will result in a dramatically faster scan. As a bonus, RAW images will be supported on OS X!

2007-03-04 -- musicGuru 1.3.1 released (link)

  • Fixed a bug with the move operation.
  • Fixed a bug where the tool windows would sometimes stop showing up (Windows).
  • Fixed keyboard navigation quirks (Windows).

2007-02-14 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.2.5 released (link)

  • Added Re-orderable columns. In fact, I re-added the feature which was lost in the C# conversion in 5.2.0 (Windows).
  • Changed the behavior of the scanning engine when setting the hardness to 100. It will now only match files that have their words in the same order.
  • Fixed a bug with all the Delete/Move/Copy actions with certain kinds of files.

2007-02-11 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.1.6 released (link)

  • Added Re-orderable columns. In fact, I re-added the feature which was lost in the C# conversion in 1.1.0 (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug with all the Delete/Move/Copy actions with certain kinds of files.

2007-02-10 -- dupeGuru 2.4.6 released (link)

  • Added Re-orderable columns. In fact, I re-added the feature which was lost in the C# conversion in 2.4.0 (Windows).
  • Changed the behavior of the scanning engine when setting the hardness to 100. It will now only match files that have their words in the same order.
  • Fixed a bug with all the Delete/Move/Copy actions with certain kinds of files.

2007-01-11 -- dupeGuru 2.4.5 released (link)

  • Fixed a bug with the Move action.

2007-01-11 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.1.5 released (link)

  • Fixed a bug with the Move action.

2007-01-10 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.2.4 released (link)

  • Fixed a bug with the Move action.
  • Fixed a "ghosting" bug. Dupes deleted by dupeGuru would sometimes come back in subsequent scans (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug introduced in the last version that caused the status bar not to update when dupes were marked (Windows).

2007-01-09 -- dupeGuru Picture Edition 1.1.4 released (link)

  • Fixed a "ghosting" bug. Dupes deleted by dupeGuru would sometimes come back in subsequent scans (Windows).
  • Fixed bugs sometimes making dupeGuru crash when marking a dupe (Windows).
  • Fixed some minor visual glitches (Windows).

2007-01-07 -- dupeGuru 2.4.4 released (link)

  • Fixed a "ghosting" bug. Dupes deleted by dupeGuru would sometimes come back in subsequent scans (Windows).
  • Fixed bugs sometimes making dupeGuru crash when marking a dupe (Windows).
  • Fixed some minor visual glitches (Windows).

2007-01-04 -- dupeGuru Music Edition 5.2.3 released (link)

  • Fixed bugs sometimes making dupeGuru crash when marking a dupe (Windows).
  • Fixed some minor visual glitches (Windows).

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