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Codepoints 1.0.7

Codepoints 1.0.7 is now available on the App Store. It is a bug fix for a crash that occurs with Codepoints 1.0.6, released just a week ago.

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Emergency bug fix for Codepoints

An emergency fix for an issue in Codepoints 1.0.6 has been submitted to Apple for expedited review.

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Codepoints 1.0.6

Codepoints 1.0.6 is now available on the App Store. It includes an updated Unicode 8.0 database, support for Yosemite dark mode, several bugfixes, and significantly reduces memory usage.

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Codepoints 1.0.5

An update for Codepoints has been submitted to the App Store, which fixes some bugs, updates the Unicode database to 7.0, and reduces memory usage.

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Codepoints 1.0.4

The release of Mountain Lion brought an interesting bug in Codepoints to the surface that for some reason had never occurred in Lion. A bugfix along with a new Retina icon have been submitted to the App Store for review.

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The Mac App Store Sandbox

Today, June 1st, is Sandbox day on the Mac App Store. After this point, all new submissions to the store must implement sandboxing, and updates to non-sandboxed software already available on the store must either implement sandboxing, or include only bugfixes.

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Hotkeys in Codepoints

Earlier today Erica Sadun at TUAW posted an article about Apple potentially rejecting applications from the Mac App Store that use "global hotkeys". As Codepoints for Mac makes good use of these hotkeys, and ships on the Mac App Store, naturally I'm a bit concerned about how to handle the situation, if true.

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About font rendering in Codepoints

An email support request for Codepoints this morning highlighted an issue that may pop up for users who have disabled certain fonts in the OS X Font Book.

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Codepoints 1.0

Codepoints for Mac is now available on the Mac App Store :) Since this is the first release I thought I'd give a little background on why I wrote it.

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Mi-Fi Monitor 1.4

Mi-Fi Monitor 1.4 is waiting for approval in both app stores. The primary change on Mac is the ability to selectively enable the signal, battery, or both icons in the menu bar. New icons are also included, I got feedback from more than one person that the old ones were too big so I started from scratch and made Mi-Fi Monitor draw them on-the-fly in code (using bezier paths and a ton of math :)

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Mi-Fi Monitor for Mac approved

Today the Mac version of Mi-Fi Monitor was approved and released for sale on the App Store.

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