It's been a while we have posted something on this blog. I plan on changing this over next few weeks. ;) For now, we'd like to shed some light on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility, install issues, and life, universe and everything.

First and foremost, we are actively working on the Leopard compatibility for all our haxies (Application Enhancer being the #1 there, as most of our and lots of third party products depend on that). We have a build internally that works with Mac OS X 10.5... so it's a matter of days for the compatibility update.

I'd like to note that the problems some people were experiencing while doing the Mac OS X upgrade and being unable to boot due to Application Enhancer installed were caused by the "old" versions of Application Enhancer not properly recognizing the system version and failing. The latest 2.0.3, released on 13 March, is properly detecting the upgrade and you should not have any issues with installing Leopard over it. For this reason, we recommend you upgrading to 2.0.3 before upgrading your Mac OS X. It will properly detect the system version and deactivate itself.

Meanwhile, we are hard at work at making our products compatible. What has taken us so long? Well, the main reason is that some crucial parts of the system that Application Enhancer depend on were severly broken until... (drum roll) the GM build! So we had to wait until we get it (and unfortunately, ADC account owners only got it yesterday, after it went retail). So now when everything is in place (barring my ISP doing "scheduled maintenance" twice during my attempts to download 6.6 Gb from Apple servers), we are actively working on the updates. All of them will of course be free updates (unless we add some significant new features, which is not the priority at the moment). The only exception to this rule would of course be ShapeShifter. It requires substantional amounts of re-coding to be done, as the UI system was changed drastically. However, we will be back with a separate post on ShapeShifter state in the coming days.

For the products I lead on, the order will be as follows: Application Enhancer 2.5, then WindowShade X, FruitMenu, Xounds followed by the freeware haxies.

Stay tuned, and please accept our sincere apologies for all the trouble that was caused. We have underestimated the number of people running "outdated" versions of our software. Of course, that's not an excuse... and thanks!