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Dan Wood Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his older weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming. Go visit the current blog here.

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Fri, 08 Aug 2008

Beta Season

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At Karelia, we will be releasing a couple of new bit of software, and I'm looking for people to try to break things!

Next week, we are planning on releasing a new 1.1.1 version of the standalone Karelia iMedia Browser. The many people working on this code — more on that below — have apparently fixed a lot of "crash" kinds of bugs, but I'd like to really see if that is true!

If you have a few minutes to explore this handy utility, could you download it here and exercise it a bit? See if you find any problems. There is a built-in feedback reporter and problem reporter so if you do encounter any issues, please report them so we can track them down.

While I'm here, I want to gush for a minute about the open-source community that has rallied around the iMedia Browser Framework, the guts of this utility that is being used in a number of applications. There are about a dozen developers who have contributed code to this, but I wanted to give a big shout-out to the folks at Plasq and Boinx for their amazing contributions of late. They are making this a more useful and stable bit of code on an almost daily basis.

In a few weeks, we are planning on releasing a new Sandvox, which we hope will have some amazing stability improvements over the current version. If you have Sandvox and you'd like to see what the new version has to offer, or you don't have Sandvox and you want to give it a spin, this is a good chance to kick its tires. We've had a few reports of "hanging" that we are trying to solve before we can certify it for release. (We've added a lot of extra logging to help us track down some of these issues.) So if you have a few minutes to try it out, I'd appreciate it! Download it here. And send in your feedback using the menu items from the Sandvox menu.

Thanks!