Surprise 
! We actually reached the next step in the development of ForkLift2 earlier than expected. This time we mostly looked under the hood and fixed the damages caused by the recent cosmetic surgery as well as numerous other annoying insects. We also brought the possibility back to add groups of favorites to the sidebar as you all requested and added some more little enhancements for your convenience.
Put your hands on it straight away and have your say as always.
As we unleashed this monster on our users we are taking responsibility for the aftermath too…
We got a lot of feedback from y’all, thank you again, we knew we can count on you!
It was impossible not to notice the grumbling about the removal of the favorites from the sidebar. Therefore let me just shortly explain the reason for this decision and also react on your shouts for getting them back. We intended to alleviate the sidebar by removing those loads of favorites and only leave Places there to give you the possibility to access your most used favorites with a click. After you made us clear how upset you are about this decision we reconsidered it now and decided to remove Places from the sidebar too…
As you could probably already sense from one of our previous posts this release is a lot about streamlining and re-designing various elements of the User Interface. We integrated a lot of panels into the main window and re-evaluated many workflow processes to enable you working even faster and more efficiently with files. New favorites management, a new Connect interface and a completely new progress bar with transfer queue are only some to mention.
Work easier, work faster…
this is the motto of Mercurial SCM, a free, distributed source control management tool (http://mercurial.selenic.com/), and this is exactly why Mudi decided to give it a shot and switch from good old Subversion (SVN) to this promising alternative. And guess what? It just kicks ass!
Since quite a while Mudi was looking for a faster, more convenient, decentralized solution instead of SVN so he started a journey around the world wide web to discover new ways to manage the source of ForkLift. At first look he was attracted very much by GIT (http://git-scm.com/) but luckily Maciek, one of our loyal Beta Testers sent him the links to the better track: hg
Long time no hear, eh? Yes, yes we were silent for quite a long time, but I think when you see a glimpse of how we are reshaping your favorite Mac vehicle you will forgive us for neglecting our Blog in the last months. We were re-thinking many elements of ForkLift to optimize the workflow and improve the visual appearance even more with the upcoming Public Beta 3 release at the end of the month.
So here we go and don’t slobber your screen
This new beta build brings some major fixes, plus the addition of a great new feature to ForkLift 2’s toolbox.
Disklets let other OSX applications access the servers connected via ForkLift, as if they were local disks.
You can mount existing favorites as Disklets, or create a new Disklet directly from the Connect… panel. The feature works with all our supported protocols. The mounted server appears as a local disk in the Devices section of Finder and other apps’ file dialogues.
The Disklet feature requires the third-party extension MacFUSE to work and ForkLift will prompt for your confirmation to install the component.
I guess you get the idea.
Well the big day has come. What you’re about to see is still a work in progress (I guess that’s the meaning of a beta ) but we’ve waited so long that we couldn’t hold it in anymore:
The Fastest and Most Competent File Management Tool in Existence
ForkLift 2.0 (beta1) – for Snow Leopard only
And while those bytes download, I hope you won’t mind if we entertained you with a few short paragraphs about what ForkLift 2.0 is bringing to this World today.
We’ve been keeping the secrecy up for almost a year, but we’re just about to burst now. So, here’s the great news:
ForkLift 2.0 is coming to a PUBLIC BETA on May 1st!
We very much expect this date will go down in history books (or maybe wikipedia) as the day when salvation came to all those, who have to work with files from time to time.
There will be no more doubts and dilemmas between which clients to choose – ForkLift 2.0 is ushering in a new era of absolutes:
- absolute speed
if you show us anything faster, we’ll go and shoot it
- absolute reach
no other app can give you access to so many places
- absolute fluidity
the smoothest workflow you’ve ever experienced in a system utility
- absolute power
now with even more power-features added
As you can see from the hint in the top banner, ForkLift is getting a serious visual overhaul that resulted in a much cleaner, lighter interface and a set of beautiful new icons, crafted to perfection by the truly awesome guys at guifx.com
But that’s just the looks. Underneath the shiny new skin lies a brand new, supercharged V2.0 engine that we’ve spent the better part of the past 12 months designing and building from scratch.
This is the best we are able to do with over 10 years programming experience, 4 years of file management on Mac, and over 10000 emails and comments from you, our honored Users.
I will not give you any details on the new features to come, but those who have followed ForkLift’s progress will have a good idea. But, in case you are wondering whether we really meant it when we said in our reply that your feature request or fix will make it to 2.0, then yes it did
And only 17 days to go until you can get your hands on it.
Good Nights Everyone
Regular readers of our blog will have noticed the unusual envelop of silence that has descended upon the comings and goings of our little workshop lately.
Indeed, we are rather absorbed in work on FL 2.0 and our social life is mostly limited to our bugtracking system.
Still, it’s now the beginning of March and we had to realize we owe some updates.
Hello People,
BinaryNights is looking to recruite some extra hands for the pre-beta tests of ForkLift 2.0.
The app is still a long way (months) from complete, but we’re ready with some basic parts that we want tested in as many ways as possible.
Needless to say, we’re primarily looking for expert users with exceptionally acute observational capabilities, but also people who rely heavily on specific features and can provide some insight into optimizing workflow.
If you feel you can help us in the coming weeks please send us your forum user name to supportATbinarynightsDOTcom, and tell us in a few words what are your primary uses for ForkLift.
This pre-Beta is still a closed test, so you must be aware that everything you learn during the test period is confidential.
Good nights everyone