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Hi Everyone,

As I wrote in an earlier post, we have taken a couple of usability issues to the head of the line. 

The first of these was the single pane mode in ForkLift. This idea allowing more independence in the handling of the two panes is an idea that has been with us for some time, with this image of ForkLift running in single pane mode, like a Finder on steroids. 

The second major change is in the way ForkLift handles tabs. Many of you did not really agree with the way the tabs used to work, and we had our doubts too. So ForkLift will now have individual tabs for the two panes AND the tabs will be saved on exit and reloaded on program start (the lack of which feature also failed to achieve popularity). 

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Hello People,

I know you all must be eagerly asking yourselves what is going on with ForkLift development-wise. So I took a short break from counting money to bring you this little update.

For the time being, we’ve put the work on the synch module to rest (just for a little while. It’s at a stage now where it is functional, and we need to put it down a little and get some perspective before we finalize the module workflow), and we are dedicating most of our time to usability enhancements. This is not entirely unrelated to the fact that you, our dear users, have been asking for just that.

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Hello People,

We’ve been fighting our evil instincts for some time now, but we have finally succumbed to the temptation.

We will change the price of ForkLift as of next week, switching from the current $29.95 to EUR 29.95 (Yes, we’re Europeans :))

We could cite the effects of global economics and the gaslike consistency of foreign exchange markets as the reason behind this, or, we could soberly point to the fact that BinaryNIghts needs to grow in size along with our user base (at least one more coder is badly needed here).

But you may also believe we just want to get very rich fast, and hire Bill Gates as gardener on the dream island we will cause to be built on the Pacific for our new HQ.

In this case, this warning is the last manifestation of our more humane selves.

Have a great weekend everybody

BinaryNights

You thought we’ve forgotten all about you guys, and left you without a word for the rest of the summer on account of all the fun and partying we’re having.
In reality - though I’ll be the first to admit that there might be some truth in the having fun and general lazying out thing - we did not entirely forget to do some work.

Truth is, we wanted to be able to include our shiny new localizations in this release, but we were reminded by our users to the fact that in the meanwhile, we’re withholding some important fixes from you guys.

So, after what might become the longest time ever between two releases, please welcome ForkLift 1.5.3

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Hello Everyone,

With WWDC 2008 purring away, the smart people from Aquafadas (the makers of iDive, PulpMotion and BannerZest) and Spicy-Distribution have decided to cook up a second helping of their Give Good Food to Your Mac promo.

This year www.givegoodfood2yourmac.com offers a Developer Special, to which they were cool enough to invite ForkLift and another 29 great development tools and utilities. So if the string “developer for Mac” matches your description, we recommend you take a look at what’s in store for you here.

Give Good Food to your Mac is a promo run directly by a bunch of developers held together by Spicy-Distribution and Aquafadas’s good people. This means that participating developers (us) get to hang on to most of the receipts, so this is an exceptionally FAIR DEAL for all parties concerned !

There are some great dev tools to be had, like install package builders, code collectors, collaborative editing tools, localization tools - I mean, at one point, you will need at least one or two of these apps for your work.

Ah, also, this is not a bundle promo - you get to pick which apps you need

Thanks for the great work to Claudia, Geoffrey and the others at www.givegoodfood2yourmac.com

Have a great week everyone

Csaba

Hello People!

It’s been a while since our last post, so I felt it was time for a little update.

Well, we’ve been quietly pottering away with the synchronization module and the localization project in the whole of May. The synch function is now taking shape, so expect Mudi to post some details in the dedicated Forum thread (here) over the next few days.
All the translations have been very promptly made by the nice people taking part in the localization project - they are now waiting for me to complete a little readjustment of the UI panels, and create the localized builds to run the last checks.

The weather has been turning intensely good here in Hungary, so we’re hearing the call of some serious vacation time more and more loudly now, but I promise we’ll not go off to our holidays before we release some sweet update for you all to enjoy.

Have a great weekend everybody

Hello Guys and Girls,

It has been obvious to us, that the most needed and asked-for feature in ForkLift is the possibility to synchronize folders.
We are now happy to announce that we have started development of our synch module.
As we want to make this the best damn synchronization tool that ever was, we are asking You, our Esteemed User, for input on what you would expect from such a tool. To this end, we are now launching this new thread in our user forum, and encourage you to make yourself heard.

What we are looking for most, is descriptions of the tasks where you need to use a synchronization tool; and your ideas about how you would expect to manage the workflow of these tasks. We would like this to be a very open and active discussion, one that we hope will result in a tool worthy of the general excellence of ForkLift.

We will hear out any ideas, however weird they may seem You are welcome to post screenshots, diagrams, filelists, links, anything useful to this discussion.

Thanks for contributing

BinaryNights

Hello All,

It is with an emotional press of a button that we are now sending on its way ForkLift’s 100,000th line of code with this 1.5.2 release.

Actually, it didn’t come out to an even 100k, but we must have passed it in these last two weeks. These, we spent cleaning up and updating parts of the code, and also doing major architectural reconfiguration. We are now confident that the damage we’ve done during these delicate operations have mostly been brought under control ;-P

Many of these updates on the code body were required for our ongoing localization project. We will now be able to start actual translation work, with the help of some very friendly and enthusiastic users who have offered their contribution for the good of the community. More on this in the following days.

Still, we did have the time to cram some really useful NEW FEATURES in this release, and a couple of FIXES.
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Hello People!

This is a happy moment, the celebration of the unity between users and developers:
the ForkLift user forum is now open!

Come and join in the discussions about ForkLift’s new features, to request support, and to share your experiences with ForkLift.

See you there

BinaryNights

Hi Everybody,

We’ve got some great news for you, loyal and venerable users.

In the past months, we’ve seen the number of ForkLift users jump an order of magnitude, especially since the release of the Leopard version. Now this makes us happy as clams, but precisely: clams tend to be a sort of introvert creatures, hard to get to. And indeed, we now find ourselves incapable of handling the volume of mail we receive from you guys, which is worrying because your feedback does play a very important role in our development process.

Therefore, we are following the advice that many of you have voiced, and we announce the coming a user forum for ForkLift.

We would like to say here that credit for this should be given to the guys and girls who regularly comment on our blog, sharing their experiences with and offering advice to us all.

The forum will be a much more efficient place to discuss suggestions and recommendations regarding new features and interface usability, and to share information on using ForkLift.
We just need to get some things together, such as setting up a domain, and putting a skin on the forum, and we will launch the forums as soon as possible.

Also, a quick update on localizations - we will be contacting this week all those who kindly offered their help with the translations, and we hope we will be able to release the first localized versions 2-3 weeks after that. Based on the offers we have received so far, it looks like Chinese, French, German, Hungarian and Polish version will be among the first ones.

And last, but not least, Battlestar Galactica season 4 is coming in just a couple of days. Rejoyce everyone!

Good Nights,

BinaryNights crew

ps. in case you were looking for it, the funny part is that this is not an April Fool’s joke