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We made a Boo-Boo with the Mac Apps

First off, we would like to apologize to our mac users as we made a big issue with the Mac installer. We basically used the same packaging app as the apps for the Mac App Store and that causes them not to work under the normal installation.

Basically what happened is when you install it, you get the white circle and the slash symbol over the app and it tells you that your computer cannot run it.

We have since corrected the issue and if you were affected by the problem, you will need to trash your initial installation and install a fresh copy from our website again.

This should not be something which should happen but it did and it is certainly our fault and there is no one to pass the blame to.

CM Note Keeper coming with Dropbox support

We have received request for the integration of Dropbox support in CM Note Keeper and we believe that it would certainly be a good idea to include that especially with our plans to allow for sharing of notes between computers and mobile devices (in the future). Currently, we already support both the Mac and Windows platform.

We had two options, one method was to integrate the Dropbox API into the application which means that we would need to hardcode dropbox into CM Note Keeper and in doing so, may require our users to have persistent connection with Dropbox for this to work. The other method would be to rely on the excellent Dropbox app and its virtual folders and just do the import and export of notes to the Dropbox virtual folders and let it do its magic.

Each options has its advantages and disadvantages but in the end, we picked option 2. This will allow for extra flexibility as we will allow our user to pick a folder (Dropbox or a local folder) and then allowing the additional option to save a text copy of each notes as they are created or edited. That would be, in our opinion, the best option as we could tailor this to other similar services which may come by without having to reinvent the wheel. Installing the DropBox app is certainly a breeze and by doing so, CM Note Keeper does not “own” your Dropbox account as you have the upper hand in deciding how you want to share the files.

We are in the midst of adding the ability to Import and Export Notes and also to allow you to determine whether you want to automatically save a text copy of the notes somewhere. Import and Export Notes would also allow you to import the subject, remarks, datestamp, category, source and of course the notes itself. The exported notes would be in the Text format with some simple tags to identify the data, this way you can build your own notes without CM Note Keeper and be able to import them in.

In fact, if you just want to copy the entire database over, you can do a Backup of the “DB” file and restore it over to another computer via Dropbox.

If all goes well, we should have v1.0.1 ready by the end of the week.

Do keep your suggestions coming. We certainly want to hear from you.

A New Direction

The year 2011 is an exciting year for us. If you visited us in the past, you would see a number of changes made to our website. We tried to maintain the page name conversion so if you are linking to us, you would not need to change the links. This new design allow us to make changes to our website faster and without the risk of making too much mistakes.

Our Command Line tools (AutoBatch It and Batch Image Commander) have been discontinued as the command line platform is too restrictive for our development and it does not do our software justice. Moreover, sales for our command line tools have dropped tremendously and those made them too expensive to maintain. If you purchased these applications in the past, you can still download the latest version from our website.

We have implement limited command line features to our Batch TIFF Resizer and would do the same for our upcoming Batch It Ultra later this year.

A new change you might have noticed would be the inclusion of Mac OS X applications. Five of them for the start and more to follow. These applications are designed on the Mac OS X platform for the Mac user and as far as possible, the applications have their counterpart in the Windows platform. The 21 days trial version of the Mac OS X applications are available on our website and you could purchase from our website or from the Mac App Store. Currently two application, CM Batch Photo Resizer and ComboTIFF are available on the Mac App Store and the rest should follow in the next couple of months.

Batch It v5.14 Released

We are happy to announced the release of Batch It v5.14. This update adds the ability to include a solid color background for text captions and zero padding within the Text Caption option. It introduces a new macro called [FilenameNoExtPadded]