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Various bug-fixes and enhancements.

 11 Sep 2010 1.02
  • Cope with an empty Firepx profiles directory
  • Mac: Fix startup on Java 1.5
 12 Feb 2010 v0.78 beta
  • Windows: warn when attempting to run a second app instance
  • Windows: use low-level keyboard hook to avoid hotkey conflicts
  • Windows: fixed occasional deadlock when accepting text
  • Windows: fixed Java problem with -XShare:on JVM argment
  • Suggestions: reduce delay betwen keystroke and suggest query to 300ms, and make configurable in properties
  • Suggestions: suggested items replace identical history items
  • Clicker suggestions: save suggestion to history when clicked
  • Hulu suggestions fixed
  • Amazon and Amazon VOD suggestions added
  • Youtube suggestions added
  • Netflix suggestions added
  • Last.fm clickable suggestions added
  • Remove Pandora as search engine
  • Add Bing search engine and suggestions
  • Search engine list re-ordered
  • Add Favorite items on home screen, program and web-link can be added by right-clicking them in the home screen, or by using the options dialog
  • Add ability to launch into Favorites screen instead of normal home screen.
 10 Jan 2010 v0.77
  • Improved progress indicator when launching app/website
  • Clicker suggestions
  • About dialog now contains a 'generate bugreport' file which creates a zipfile with logs
  • Text Input suggestions now combine Google suggestions with dictionary
  • Mac: capture f6/f7 (home/search) keys from any keyboard type - means that the device buttons work unlike in 0.75
  • Mac: do not use Fullscreen Exclusive, but hide dock (menubar is still displayed)
  • Mac: hide dock icon, enforce single instance
  • Mac: activate app when showing fullscreen window, or dialogs
  • Mac: enable debug logging by default
  • Windows Installer: no longer reports an error when starting app
 21 Dec 2009 v0.76 beta
  • Fixed Google Suggestions in search mode
  • Clicking on a URL suggestion launches the browser with the link
 12 Dec 2009 0.75
  • Added ability to extract icons from OSX application bundles
  • When launching, keep application visible until other program has started
  • Text input now works on Mac
  • Mouse-over highlight works on Mac
  • Updated ABC and Amazon Video-on-demand URLs
  • When entering text, treat all punctuation as word-separators for dictionary lookup
  • Add XBMC, CoolIris for IE and VLC to home screen apps
  • Add Google's URL suggestions when entering URLs, and search when an invalid URL is entered
  • When entering text, clicking [T] button switches between text and password mode
 07 Dec 2009 0.74
  • Fixed problem of specifying icons for home screen links
  • Added MacOS default applications and fixed application startup
  • OS-specific update check URLs
  • Working... indicator overlay (on supported OS's)
  • Remove flash of desktop when switching from home screen to keyboard
  • Add linux applications via .desktop files
 10 Nov 2009 0.73
  • Add Mac OS X config directory
  • Support for Firefox 3.0->3.4 history database
  • Linux support
 06 Nov 2009 0.72
  • Test Remove Double Buffering for memory reduction
  • Change config dir to .glidetv from .glide
 27 Oct 2009 0.71
  • Fix NullPointerException when Firefox is not installed
  • Replace ‘keyboard’ floating button with one with a Glide Icon
 26 Oct 2009 0.70
  • Get URL suggestions from Firefox's bookmarks and typed URL history.
23 Oct 2009 0.69
  • 'lazily' load dictionaries in the background when required, instead of pre-loading them
  • Only have one dictionary in memory at a time.
 20 Oct 2009 0.68
  • changed properties file format so that all lists (websites/search/programs) are no longer numbered

    • (Instead each list item is named, not numbered and a single property lists item names in order)

  • When user modifies home screen progs/links, only save the modified items to users properties file

    • These last 2 changes should prevent problems with items’ info clashing between default and user properties

  • delete user props in installer defaults to false
  • check home screen program exists before adding it to home screen…
 15 Oct 2009 0.67
  • Simplified some SVG icons (WMP and itunes), and removed junk from others, improving startup performance
  • Added search engine suggestions for truveo
  • Automatically check for updates, on startup and every 2 days
  • Updated embedded java installer to 1.6u16
 14 Oct 2009 0.65
  • Include French, German, English spell dictionaries with installer
  • For text input, switch dictionary language depending on keymap in use
  • Added search suggestions engine for hulu
 13 Oct 2009 0.64
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