http://www.rictus.com/muchado nj on Flex design and development Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:37:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a long hiatus, I've just posted a new test build of Snackr, 0.39. There are just a few new features and bugfixes in this release (see the release notes), including the much-requested option to remove Snackr from the taskbar on Windows. However, I'd like to promote this to an ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/12/16/snackr-v039-test-available-snackr-beta-program/ I've been getting a number of reports of people not seeing images in item popups after upgrading to AIR 1.5. It seems possible that this is only an issue with the original "official" build of Snackr (0.33). If you're seeing this problem, and you're running 0.33, please try upgrading to ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/12/15/possible-fix-for-image-bug-in-snackr-try-v038/ I found one possible reason for Snackr crashing on the Mac: it seems that if CoolIris for Safari is installed, it interferes with Snackr/AIR (specifically, the input manager it installs seems to cause the problem). Try uninstalling the plugin (in Safari, do View > Remove CoolIris) and see if that ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/12/09/snackr-crash-found-incompatible-with-cooliris-for-safari/ Adobe AIR was just updated to 1.5 recently, and it seems to have fixed at least one long-standing Snackr bug--items should now open in tabs in Firefox rather than in new windows if you have that preference set in Firefox. However, I've been getting some reports from Mac users that ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/11/30/snackr-crashing-under-air-15/ It looks like we've had over 20,000 downloads of Snackr so far, which is pretty amazing to me. I suspect the number of regular users is much lower--taking a look at my server logs, it's probably on the order of a thousand or so--but still, not bad for a little ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/07/22/snackr-v038-test-google-reader-integration-is-here/ There's a new test build of Snackr, v0.35, up on Google Code. This version adds much better support for non-Western language feeds (in particular, feeds with encodings other than UTF-8). If you had trouble with Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, or other languages in previous versions of Snackr, please check this ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/13/snackr-v035-test-released-better-non-western-language-support/ I'm starting to post interim test builds of Snackr on Google Code for people to try out. Since I don't have a QA staff, I'd like brave souls to try them out before I put them up as official releases. They won't be pushed out through autoupdate, so you'll need ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/09/snackr-v034-test-build-released/ The flood of Snackr downloads has finally slowed down to about 150 a day. Over 13,000 people have downloaded it so far; it looks like maybe about 500-600 people are running it daily--not bad for a little side project :) Various people have requested the source code, so I've decided to ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/05/snackr-is-now-open-source/ The frenzy of Snackr downloading seems to be slowing down at last, but with more than 5250 downloads (and 500 mostly positive tweets on Twitter, including a plug by @scobleizer), I have to admit that I'm greatly surprised at how much interest there's been. Frankly, I assumed Snackr would only ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/19/snackr-randomness-goes-viral/ This is basically just an official repost of the test build I posted earlier, with better support for non-Western character sets and multiple select in the feed list so you can delete a bunch of feeds at once; see the release notes for more detail. Snackr should automatically offer to ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/17/snackr-v033-released/