Just a quick update on the state of the next version of “Remember?”. I’ve got several significant new features in the works:

• Extending the cut-off year for events from 2018 to 2134
• Safer occasion file updates
• Automatic occasion file backups

The coding for these changes is essential completed but will require extensive testing before I’ll let it at anyone else’s data. Occasion files that contain events beyond 2018 won’t be compatible with previous versions of Remember? and can’t be opened by them.

These are fairly extensive changes so I’m not sure when this version will be ready for public consumption. I’ll post a pre-release test version for the more adventurous after more testing.

Took a bit longer than I expected but the Remember? page now contains version 4.3 of my venerable reminder package. Not as substantial as I was hoping for but it does include some bug fixes and a couple more preferences, because there’s no such thing as too many preferences (apparently.) Both this and the previous 4.2 versions have no known issues with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.

As usual the update is free if you’ve paid for any previous version.

If I remember correctly, which is never a particularly good bet, version 1.0 of Remember? might have been released some time during 1988 which means it will probably officially hit 20 years old some time next year. I’ll have to check the archives to be sure.

Kind of amazing when I stop to think about it.

I’ve just posted a minor update to hotTunes that fixes the incorrect display of its info window on Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Only other change is a fix for the occasional instance where skipping to the next track would not display the new track’s rating info if the info window was already displaying something else.

Just a quick note about Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) compatibility.

The current version of Remember? works fine in Leopard, no known issues. I’ve been using it on 10.5 for a while now and it’s been rock solid. There will be a minor update coming along soon to fix a few bugs and add a few very minor features but it’s not necessary for Leopard.

I’ve just now discovered that hotTunes has a bug in the 10.5 GM release: the album image isn’t being scaled correctly in the info window and can overlap the rest of the content. No other problems (famous last words) so I should be able to post an update soon, time permitting I’ll bang it out tonight.

As far as my impressions of Mac OS X 10.5 itself, so far I love it. I’ve upgraded three machines: my G5 Tower, MacBook Pro and a G4 Mac mini, all with no glitches other than my time zone getting set to Atlanta, GA for some reason. Other than hating some gratuitous Dock and menu bar changes, the rest of Leopard is a flat out joy. I’m still discovering nice little improvements in just about every app.

And Screen Sharing could eventually be my personal favorite killer new feature. Anyone who has to do remote support of any kind even just for family members should not upgrade their own machine but also convince every supportee to do the same.

So look for a new hotTunes shortly and a minor Remember? update a bit after that. And if you’re interested in a somewhat techie but very in-depth review of Leopard in general check out Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review

That’s all for now.

Just wanted to say that I am working on an update to Remember?, tentatively to be released as version 4.3. No earthshaking new features but some bug fixes, AppleScripting additions and a few cosmetic changes. No timetable on when it will be released but hopefully sometime in the next few weeks.