We are pleased to announce that Batch It Ultra and JBatch It are now available for purchase from the Windows Store. The Windows Store provides a convenient platform for Windows 10 users to purchase our applications at a discount.
Batch It Ultra Windows Store Link
The Batch It Ultra version on the App Store is a special edition which comes with command line support.
We are pleased to announce the release of our first iOS app on the App Store. This application allows you to sort a list of text in ascending or descending order. It also allows you to add running numbers and/or alphabetic headers.
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Magic Sort List is highly customizable.
Magic Sort List is available on the iOS App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magic-sort-list/id874201464?ls=1&mt=8 for US$0.99
We understand that there is a fundamental design flaw with the current built-in Mac OS X PDF Engine which we are currently employing which stores all PDF pages in memory prior to saving them. When converting large number of TIFF images or pages to PDF, the application may run out of usable memory and thus either crashes or you get a resultant PDF file with missing or malformed pages. This issue only affects PDF files with more than 100 pages.
Currently, we are exploring an alternative solution which does a more efficient method of memory management. This will result in writing all converted PDF pages to file and thus does not result in huge memory usage. The advantage is that it can handle unlimited number of pages and thus allow PDF Files to be over the 2gb file limit. However, when working in file mode, this would result in a slightly slower processing speed.
As the App Store would no longer be accepting any updates for the week while it shuts down, we should have the solution available for CM TIFF TO PDF and CM Page Extractor at the beginning of January 2012.
We apologized for the inconvenience caused.
We are pleased to announce the release of CM Note Keeper (Mac) v1.1.5. This is currently available for immediate download from the App Store.
This update spots a change in the interface. Now it comes with a Source List where you could navigate easily between the categories. It also shows you the number count of notes in each of the category.
We are working hard now on the Windows version of the CM Note Keeper v1.1.5. Once we worked out the kinks, we will release it which should be soon so watch for it.
We are pleased to announce the update of CM Note Keeper 1.1.1.
The update contains several fundamental updates which includes
* Fixing the bug which causes the “Index” column not to hide when it is set not to display
* Added the Duplicate Note feature so that you can duplicate an existing note in the application
* Added the Speak feature which allows to take advantage of the Text-to-Speech feature of the Mac OS
* Added the automatic saving of the resizing of columns and app.
The other fundamental changes is this application has been internally modified to comply to the Sandboxing requirement set by Apple. Sandboxing means that the application would no longer have the ability to work outside its sandbox area, thus meaning that by default, it cannot modify files without the user’s explicit permission. With this, the auto saving option has been disabled for OS X Lion users until we could find a way to resolve this.
This also means that the database used with CM Note Keeper would no longer be kept within the ~/Library/Application Support but in the sandboxed area. To preserve all your notes, CM Note Keeper would move the database to the sandboxed area during the first run. Exporting and Importing notes are still implemented but requires you to specifically determine which file and location to load and save them.
As always, you can update the copy of CM Note Keeper from the App Store.
If you encounter any issues or have any suggestions, please feel free to email us at support@batchimage.com
Enjoy!
We submitted our Mac Applications to the App Store for review on September 6th 2011 and they promptly went into review between September 10th and 12th 2011. However, as yet, they have not got back to us as to whether the updates have been approved or rejected.
From our observations in the Apple Developers’ Forum, we are not the only ones who are experiencing these delays. Although we would love to get the updates to you as quickly as possible, the Apple’s review process is out of our control.
We have submitted a status report from Apple in regards to the delay but are not very optimistic about the reply. We certainly hope that they would work on revamping their review process for your benefits.
We will update you once we have a reply from them.
Over the last several months, we have been working hard in the background to cater to the changes which OS X 10.7 Lion introduced and subsequently the Sandboxing requirements of the App Store.
For the Lion Compatibility, we had to change the underlying framework from Carbon to Cocoa. Some of the visible changes which were implemented are the Full Screen Support and the ability to resize from all sides of the apps. However during the transition, some of the features may not work the same as before or suddenly stop working. We are in the midst of ironing out all the reported issues.
The Sandboxing requirements is a little more complex. The concept of Sandboxing is a nice idea as it means that any application must work within the boundary of a virtual sandbox and would not be allowed to access files or devices outside the sandbox. This means that apps which are sandboxed would not be able access any files without the user’s explicit permission and intervention. Basically for a file to be accessed, the user would need to select the file(s) and to save the output, the user would need to select the location to save the files in. The heightened permissions would only be active for as long as the app is running. Once shut down, the app would lose this permissions and the user would need to reselect the files and folders again. The only files the app can handle are within the sandbox which are files stored separately from what the user can access. The only time the app can handle external user files are when the users explicitly grant the permissions.
Our CM Note Keeper stores your notes in a database which used to exist in the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder. This was the requirement set up by Apple but with Lion, all the database would need to be located in the user’s Containers folder. To reduce the inconvenience to our users, when you first run the app in OS X Lion, the app would move the database into the sandbox container. You could still Backup and Restore the database to an external folder.
Before all these get too confusing, what this means to our users is that we can no longer implement the “Save In Directory” option as the permission to save to that folder would no longer be granted to the apps without having the user re-select that folder. So for our Lion users, this means that you will need to reselect the “Save In Directory” before you hit the “Process All” button. For CM Note Keeper, it means that the “Auto Save” option would no longer work. We understand your frustration but we will certainly monitor the development from Apple and once they allow us to handle this as it was, we will definitely implement it.
We have submitted all our apps with the said Sandboxing requirement ahead of November 2011. This will allow us to refine the apps along the way so that the transition would be transparent to our customers.
We understand that these changes brings about issues to our users and we apologized for the inconvenience caused as we understand the number of negative reviews left on the App Store. We will be addressing them as soon as we can. If you do encounter any issues, please drop us an email and we will have the issue fixed.
Thank you once again for your patience.