WebNoteHappy, the tag-friendly bookmarks manager, has been updated to 1.3.1. This minor update includes a couple of Leopard fixes to the tagging field, and the ability to select bookmarks with enter and delete them with forward delete.
For more information, see the 1.3.1 blog announcement. The update is available via the WebNoteHappy website or the program’s internal auto-updating.
InfiniteNil, developer of PackRat, has been busily releasing very minor updates for PackRat that fix crashes and problems running under Leopard. These are very minor updates; in fact, there are no release notes, really, just a couple of bare-bones blog announcements.
If you’re running Leopard, updating to the latest version is highly recommended, and can be done from the PackRat webpage.
Pukka, a del.icio.us client, has been updated to 1.6.3. This minor update fixes bugs under Tiger and Leopard, including a hang and potential crash. Unless you’re experiencing a lot of hanging and crashing, you’ll probably be safe updating via the auto-update feature the next time you launch Pukka.
To hear it from the horse’s mouth, see the 1.6.3 blog announcement.
PackRat, an application that allows you to use your Backpack offline and/or outside your web browser, has been updated to 1.5. This update brings bug fixes for Leopard (what release in the past few days hasn’t?), and more importantly adds back the ability to reorder your list items. It also introduces the ability to add an item at a specific point as a stop-gap until the developer is able to implement general item reordering. And last, you can now edit and remove dividers.
For more information, please see the PackRat 1.5 blog announcement.
iGTD 1.4.5.6 has received a minor pick-me-up today. If you’re running Leopard, then pick it up over at the iGTD downloads page. This minor update provides the ability to link to specific Mail.app messages whether or not you have MailTags installed and fixes a pair of bugs that affected editing tasks.
For more information, see the blog announcement.
Avenir, Tagamac’s choice for writing software, has been updated to 2.3.7. This point release fixes a bug with annotations and brings full support for Leopard. Leopard introduced a bug in how Avenir dealt with tags that prevented projects with tags in them from opening, which has fortunately been fixed.
Although the update is not currently showing up in the program’s auto-update, if you’re running Leopard you should grab it from the Avenir forums.
Big Robot Software has posted a notice that while TagBot is mostly compatible with Leopard, showing tagged files does not yet function. If you’ve upgraded to Leopard, you’ll still be able to use TagBot to apply and import tags, but until Big Robot is able to release a full bug fix, double clicking a tag in the list will be pretty pointless.
They point out that the incompatibility has no harmful side effects, so you can continue to use TagBot with impunity; you’ll just need to browse your tags some other way (for instance, through the much speedier Spotlight).
Although you are probably already aware, OS X 10.5 Leopard has gone on sale for preorder, and will be arriving Oct. 26th, as the countdown on Apple’s homepage makes abundantly clear.
I haven’t heard word yet what the changes to the metadata are like (the big question: will tagging system files be easier?), but hopefully the metadata will be more tag-friendly and we can get away from the ever-so-imperfect Spotlight comment. I will of course be posting more information as it comes available, and once my copy arrives I’ll try to suss out the metadata changes (if any) as soon as I can.