2011's news archive

• Added multiple-selection in folder selection dialog for a more efficient folder removal. (#179)
• Fixed a crash in the prioritize dialog. (#178)
• Fixed a bug where mass marking with a filter would mark more than filtered duplicates. (#181)
• Fixed random hard crashes. [Mac OS X] (#183 #184)
• Added Czech localization by Aleš Nehyba.
• Added Italian localization by Paolo Rossi.

• Fixed a couple of nasty crashes.

• Added multiple-selection in folder selection dialog for a more efficient folder removal. (#179)
• Fixed a crash in the prioritize dialog. (#178)
• Fixed a bug where mass marking with a filter would mark more than filtered duplicates. (#181)
• Fixed random hard crashes. [Mac OS X] (#183 #184)
• Added Czech localization by Aleš Nehyba.
• Added Italian localization by Paolo Rossi.

• Fixed nasty crashes introduced in 2.4.0.

• Added a document properties tab. (#240)
• Redesigned visibility options. (#182)
• Allow targeted transaction searches. (#276)
• Added the ability to select multiple accounts. (#55)
• Added the ability to export a specific date range. (#201)
• Remember size and position of the import window. (#238)
• Improved the Ahead Months option. (#272)
• Added support for Nicaraguan Cordobas. (#268)
• Improved OS X Lion compatibility. [Mac OS X] (#286)
• Added Czech localization by Aleš Nehyba.

• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Added duplicate re-prioritization dialog. (#138)
• Added font size preference for duplicate table. (#82)
• Added Quicklook support. [Mac OS X] (#21)
• Improved behavior of Mark Selected. (#139)
• Improved filename sorting. (#169)
• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization by Eric Dee.
• Tweaked the fairware system.
• Upgraded minimum requirements to OS X 10.6 and Ubuntu 11.04.

• Fixed a couple of broken action bindings from v6.1.0.

• Fixed a couple of broken action bindings from v3.2.0.

• Added duplicate re-prioritization dialog. (#138)
• Added font size preference for duplicate table. (#82)
• Added Quicklook support. [Mac OS X] (#21)
• Improved behavior of Mark Selected. (#139)
• Improved filename sorting. (#169)
• Fixed bug preventing some OGG metadata from being read. (#176)
• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization by Eric Dee.
• Tweaked the fairware system.
• Upgraded minimum requirements to OS X 10.6 and Ubuntu 11.04.

• Added duplicate re-prioritization dialog. (#138)
• Added font size preference for duplicate table. (#82)
• Added Quicklook support. [Mac OS X] (#21)
• Improved behavior of Mark Selected. (#139)
• Improved filename sorting. (#169)
• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization by Eric Dee.
• Tweaked the fairware system.
• Upgraded minimum requirements to OS X 10.6 and Ubuntu 11.04.

To make it easier for potential developers (and curious people) to figure out how HS apps development is going, I created a new "Devlogs" section in the website. All I need now is the discipline to keep it going.

• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.
• Fixed bug making TOC and footnotes in MOBI link to wrong locations.

• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.
• Fixed a crash on clicking the page view.
• Fixed a crash on ebook generation.
• Fixed a bug causing the first character(s) of each line to be removed when reading a PDF.

• Improved OS X Lion compatibility. [Mac OS X] (#282)
• Fixed a crash on tab switching. (#283)

I changed the contribution allocation algorithm today. The previous one, with tons of prorating all around was too complicated and the benefits of it were dubious.

Contributions are now allocated directly to timelogs, the oldest unpaid timelog being paid first. This has a fun side effect, which is that I'm now able to tell contributors which timelog(s) they compensated (it isn't implemented yet, but it's in my plans). This opens the door to all kinds of new fun statistics to make.

Another side effect is that there were about 5 hours that were previously allocated to dupeGuru that are now allocated to moneyGuru. That's because the new algorithm puts more of a burden for "shared timelogs" (timelogs from project dependencies) on the project that receives the most contributions. Since dupeGuru receives many more contributions than moneyGuru, more of it was allocated to timelogs from "Hardcoded Software" and "OpenHS" projects.

The "Unpaid hours history" graph is also a bit skewed by this change because it's as if there always were a couple of unpaid hours to the dupeGuru project, when in fact dupeGuru hours have always been promptly and completely compensated in the last 90 days.

• Added German localization by Gregor Tätzner.
• Improved OS X Lion compatibility. [Mac OS X]
• Made the file collection phase cancellable. (#168)
• Fixed glitch in folder window upon selecting a folder state. [Windows, Linux] (#165)

• Added German localization by Gregor Tätzner.
• Improved OS X Lion compatibility. [Mac OS X]
• Made the file collection phase cancellable. (#168)
• Fixed glitch in folder window upon selecting a folder state. [Windows, Linux] (#165)
• Fixed a text coloring glitch in the results. (#156)
• Fixed glitch in the sorting feature of the Folder column. (#161)
• Make sure that saved results have the ".dupeguru" extension. [Linux] (#157)

• Fixed a bug preventing the Folders scan from working. (#172)

• Added German localization by Gregor Tätzner.
• Improved OS X Lion compatibility. [Mac OS X]
• Made the file collection phase cancellable. (#168)
• Fixed glitch in folder window upon selecting a folder state. [Windows, Linux] (#165)
• Fixed a text coloring glitch in the results. (#156)
• Fixed glitch in the sorting feature of the Folder column. (#161)
• Make sure that saved results have the ".dupeguru" extension. [Linux] (#157)

• Added automatic page breaks for title elements (level 1 and 2).
• Added automatic TOC generation for title elements(level 1 and 2). (#4)
• Improved text layout detection in PDFs.
• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Added the ability to generate MOBI and EPUB documents (using code from Calibre).
• Changed the license from BSD to GPL (Calibre is GPL).
• Fixed a memory usage problem.

• Fixed crash on moving the Total row in the Transactions view. (#281)
• Fixed bug causing bad dates to come through import checks. (#274)
• Fixed a bug preventing some accounts' info to be edited. (#280)

• Added a new Page View feature, which is really cool.
• Moved the Edit/Build tab view to the right to leave more space to the page view.
• Title elements now have multiple levels (1 to 6)
• Added keyboard bindings to quickly set element states.
• Improved text layout detection in PDFs.
• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Fixed a bug where setting a transaction in the future wouldn't de-reconcile it. (#271)
• Fixed a crash when changing the currency of an account with reconciled entries. (#273)
• Fixed the title of the Net Worth print view. (#269)

• Added a new flag: "To Fix".
• Added keyboard shortcuts for quickly flagging elements.
• Improved text layout detection in PDFs.
• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Fixed a bug where title elements wouldn't correctly be wrapped. (#3)
• Fixed a bug where generating markdown for elements with footnotes more than once would make a mess.
• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Made the PDF opening progress smooth (progress bar).
• Added a Markdown intermediate step in the build process.
• Added a Text Length column.
• Made the error message when opening a non-PDF file more friendly.
• Fixed a bug making the order of some text parts to be mixed up.
• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.

• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.
• Fixed a bug where there would sometimes be no space character between words.
• Added auto-update support with Sparkle. [Mac OS X]

• Fixed bugs preventing some PDFs to be read.
• Correctly set the encoding of resulting HTML files.

...reading PDF files on it really sucks! So, I bought a Kindle two months ago and I love it. The screen really makes reading a pleasure (for those who think that an iPad can double as an ebook reader: you have no idea how electronic paper makes a difference). I spent most of my reading time reading out-of-copyright books which you can get for free (like Alexandre Dumas, I love that guy). However, one of the things I wanted to do with it, and, frankly, what justified the purchase (because otherwise, it takes a lot of free/cheap books to make you save the equivalent of a Kindle) was that I could read articles that I found on the web. I also wanted to subscribe to the electronic edition of the Monde Diplomatique (PDF) and read it on the Kindle. I saw that the latest Kindle had native PDF support so I thought that it would work fine.

Well, no. The problem with PDFs on the Kindle is that you have no control over font size like you do with normal books. The font is often a bit too small to read confortably. There's a zoom feature, but it's rather awkward to use. In the case of the Monde Diplomatique, it's even worse because pages are huge. You absolutely have to use the zoom, and with all the text columns all over the place, you spend more time zooming around than doing actual reading.

All of this is why I started PdfMasher which I introduce to you today. It's still in very early development (I'll consider it v1.0 when I can "mash" the Monde Diplomatique), but it's quite powerful already. If you also need to "mash" some PDFs on your ebook device, please try it and let me know how it goes!

• Initial preview release.

• Brought back the filter hardness label which disappeared in 2.2.0. [Mac OS X] (#164)
• Added support for Olympus RAW files (.orf). [Mac OS X] (#159)
• Fixed a bug causing the picture analysis to stall on some corrupt EXIF data.
• Make the "Match scaled pictures" option apply to the new EXIF timestamp scan. (#162)
• Fixed glitch in the sorting feature of the Folder column. (#161)

• Fixed a crash on importing empty QIF files. (#263)
• Fixed a layout glitch in the transaction panel. [Windows, Linux] (#255)
• Correctly show the selected transaction when jumping to an account. [Windows, Linux] (#258)
• Fixed Y-Axis scaling in graphs for negative values. (#257)
• Fixed crashes after tab re-ordering. [Mac OS X] (#264)
• Global date change on schedule spawns now work correctly. (#261)
• Fixed crash on startup under certain regional settings. [Windows, Linux] (#250)
• Added date format preference. [Windows, Linux] (#256)
• Added the path of the current document in title bar. [Windows, Linux] (#259)

• Added the EXIF Timestamp scan type.
• Correctly rotate pictures before analysis when EXIF orientation indicates it. (#154)
• Make sure that saved results have the ".dupeguru" extension. [Linux] (#157)
• Fixed a text coloring glitch in the results. (#156)
• Fixed a refresh bug in directory panel. (#153)
• Fixed a crash on saving results. (#149)
• Improved reliability of the "Send to Trash" operation. [Linux]

• Fixed a crash on closing tabs. [Windows, Linux] (#245)
• Fixed a crash on restoring opened tabs on startup. [Windows, Linux] (#244)
• Fixed a crash on moving columns in the split table. [Mac OS X] (#241)
• Fixed a bug in the saving of a new document that could cause data loss. [Windows, Linux] (#247)
• Fixed a bug where the filename of a saved document wouldn't have the correct extension. [Windows, Linux] (#248)
• Fixed a selection glitch on creating a new transaction. [Windows, Linux] (#249)
• Improved the french translation. (#243)

• Added the "Folders" scan type. (#89)
• Fixed a couple of crashes. (#140 #149)

After 6 months of fairware, I can tell that it kinda works, and I wrote an article about that today.

• Localized to italian (by Roberto Padovani).
• Improved french localization.
• Fixed bug where transaction editing was messed up after moving the Date column. [Mac OS X] (#235)
• Fixed truncated text in account re-assign dialog. [Linux] (#234)
• Fixed crash on entering a division by zero as an amount. (#229)
• Fixed erroneous automatic de-reconciliation on transaction editing. (#237)
• Fixed crash when launching moneyGuru from a very long folder name. [Mac OS X]

• Fixed crash after removing marked dupes. (#140)
• Fixed crash on error handling. [Windows] (#144)
• Fixed crash on copy/move. [Windows] (#148)
• Fixed crash when launching dupeGuru from a very long folder name. [Mac OS X] (#119)
• Fixed a refresh bug in directory panel. (#153)
• Improved reliability of the "Send to Trash" operation. [Linux]
• Tweaked Fairware reminders.

• Fixed crash after removing marked dupes. (#140)
• Fixed crash on error handling. [Windows] (#144)
• Fixed crash on copy/move. [Windows] (#148)
• Fixed crash when launching dupeGuru from a very long folder name. [Mac OS X] (#119)
• Fixed a refresh bug in directory panel. (#153)
• Improved reliability of the "Send to Trash" operation. [Linux]
• Tweaked Fairware reminders.

• Improved scanning speed, especially for big scans with a lot of CPU cores.
• Improved iPhoto integration. [Mac OS X]
• Fixed crash after removing marked dupes. (#140)
• Fixed crash on error handling. [Windows] (#144)
• Fixed crash on copy/move. [Windows] (#148)
• Fixed crash when launching dupeGuru from a very long folder name. [Mac OS X] (#119)
• Tweaked Fairware reminders.

• Fixed a few crashes here and there. (#228 #220 #216 #218 #217)
• Fixed wrong german translation. (#219)
• Added LVL and MZN currencies. (#221)

• Re-designed the UI. (#129)
• Internationalized dupeGuru and localized it to french. (#32)
• Changed the format of the help file. (#130)
• Fixed crashes when reading malformed songs. (#127 #131)
• Removed focus from the cancel button in the progress dialog to avoid accidental cancellations. [Mac OS X] (#135)
• Folders added through drag and drop are added to the recent folders list. (#136)
• Added a debugging mode. (#132)

• Re-designed the UI. (#129)
• Internationalized dupeGuru and localized it to french. (#32)
• Changed the format of the help file. (#130)
• The "Dimensions" column is now affected by the delta mode. (#115)
• Removed focus from the cancel button in the progress dialog to avoid accidental cancellations. [Mac OS X] (#135)
• Folders added through drag and drop are added to the recent folders list. (#136)
• Added a debugging mode. (#132)

• Restored the context menu which had been broken in 3.0.0. [Mac OS X] (#133)
• Fixed a bug where an "unsaved results" warning would be issued on quit even with empty results. (#134)
• Removed focus from the cancel button in the progress dialog to avoid accidental cancellations. [Mac OS X] (#135)
• Folders added through drag and drop are added to the recent folders list. (#136)
• Added a debugging mode. (#132)
• Fixed french localization glitches.

• Re-designed the UI. (#129)
• Internationalized dupeGuru and localized it to french. (#32)
• Changed the format of the help file. (#130)

• Fixed bug causing results to be corrupted after a scan cancellation. (#120)
• Fixed crash when fetching Fairware unpaid hours. (#121)
• Fixed crash when replacing files with hardlinks. (#122)