As promised, we have released WindowShade X 4.3. This is a free recommended update for everybody who uses Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

I'll take the opportunity and tell you about our short term plans a little bit (long term plans deserve a separate post and I'll get to it in next few days).

Next release we'll have is Xounds 2.5, which is almost ready for the prime time, but still requires some tweaking. Then we have Chat Transcript Manager update in the pipeline, followed by Mighty Mouse for 10.5.

Regarding our other products, I will tell more about it in the upcoming long term plans post. :)

Overall, grab the WindowShade X 4.3 release, and thank you for bearing with us.

Xounds 2.5b2 is now available. This version fixes an annoying Finder crashing bug when you drag something into the Trash (I wonder if anyone remembers the Mac OS 8/9 extension where a lovely monster would pop out of the Trash icon every time you empty it… who knows how many useful files were destroyed back then just to see that appearance!).

It also fixes a bug with the preference pane being cropped on 10.4 (oops, totally forgot the window width is different).

Here here: Xounds 2.5b2

Also here is a beta of Chat Transcript Manager that now is able to scan iChat files as well as "new" Adium ones — in other words, be a nice Leopard citizen.

Linkie: CTM 1.1.3b1

I'll get back to you regarding the status of our other haxies within next few days :)

It's been a while since this blog was updated… the same stands for our products. I believe it's about time to change that — drastically.

Today, we're releasing the Leopard-compatible version of our haxie Xounds (a public beta) as well as a public beta of WindowShade X that fixes the most annoying bugs.

In the coming days, you will see the Leopard-compatible Mighty Mouse and the final releases of Xounds 2.5 and WindowShade X. Then we will focus on ironing the remaining bugs out as well as doing further R&D work.

You may notice that our site and products branding changes over time — we are doing the rebranding and the new website is half-way ready, but it's on the low priority as we'd like to focus on products first. Above is our new logo, and all of our haxie updates will have new icons to match the updated, simpler look.

We are already doing some research on the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to make our most popular haxies supported, as well as bring you something new.

Either way, thanks for staying around with us through all these years — it's your support that helps us going and motivates us to do the work. Despite the recent silence, we're full of energy and do our best to not let you down.

Yarr!

Download Xounds 2.5b1
Download WindowShade X 4.3b1