Comments on: Awaken 3.1 Beta 2 Ready To Go http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/ Behind the scenes at Embraceware Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:04:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jerry Brace http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-339 Jerry Brace Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:52:53 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-339 You're welcome Eric - I hope to have Beta 4 completed by tonight or tomorrow at the latest. You’re welcome Eric - I hope to have Beta 4 completed by tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

]]> By: Eric http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-338 Eric Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:20:00 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-338 Aha, so it was a feature, not a bug! I can see the logic behind your implementation, and I think your ideas for a solution should work just fine when you have a chance to put them in. Thanks very much. Aha, so it was a feature, not a bug! I can see the logic behind your implementation, and I think your ideas for a solution should work just fine when you have a chance to put them in. Thanks very much.

]]> By: Jerry Brace http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-329 Jerry Brace Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:12:45 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-329 Hi Eric - thanks for the great feedback on that. Awaken jumps to the front right now to ensure that you see your alarm/notes/buttons at alarm time. I'll correct that so it only jumps to front once and doesn't try to do it again. Along with that I might add a preference "Keep Awaken at front during alarm playback" - or something like that. Thanks again for the feedback - its the key to getting this to work well for everyone. Beta 3 is almost done right now so this option won't be in Beta 3 - but expect it in Beta 4 in a day or so. Hi Eric - thanks for the great feedback on that. Awaken jumps to the front right now to ensure that you see your alarm/notes/buttons at alarm time. I’ll correct that so it only jumps to front once and doesn’t try to do it again. Along with that I might add a preference “Keep Awaken at front during alarm playback” - or something like that. Thanks again for the feedback - its the key to getting this to work well for everyone. Beta 3 is almost done right now so this option won’t be in Beta 3 - but expect it in Beta 4 in a day or so.

]]> By: Eric http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-324 Eric Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:11:59 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-324 It seems that every time I manually play a song in iTunes, the Awaken window jumps to the front of the window order, even though iTunes is still the active application. It's odd, and a bit annoying. If I hide Awaken, this unhides it. So I'm tempted to just quite out of Awaken. Aside from that, great job, as always. It seems that every time I manually play a song in iTunes, the Awaken window jumps to the front of the window order, even though iTunes is still the active application. It’s odd, and a bit annoying. If I hide Awaken, this unhides it. So I’m tempted to just quite out of Awaken. Aside from that, great job, as always.

]]> By: Torben http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-298 Torben Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:32:44 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-298 I agree with Dzign and I'm glad you do too Jerry :) I see you already have been working on bugs, cuz after giving up on Awaken 3.0 because of bugs - that I seemed to be the only one having - these betas are flawless. Thanks for that...and the new UI is great! I agree with Dzign and I’m glad you do too Jerry :)

I see you already have been working on bugs, cuz after giving up on Awaken 3.0 because of bugs - that I seemed to be the only one having - these betas are flawless.

Thanks for that…and the new UI is great!

]]> By: Jerry Brace http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-285 Jerry Brace Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:52:10 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-285 Thanks Dzign - you're absolutely correct. There have been some far out requests and boiling it down to what is useful to the majority has been the highest priority. I can report that Awaken is Leopard ready. The next Awaken 3.1 beta will have the majority of the UI changes in place along with other performance improvements. Once 3.1 is in final form I am going to be adding support for other languages. Thanks again for your great post! Thanks Dzign - you’re absolutely correct. There have been some far out requests and boiling it down to what is useful to the majority has been the highest priority. I can report that Awaken is Leopard ready. The next Awaken 3.1 beta will have the majority of the UI changes in place along with other performance improvements. Once 3.1 is in final form I am going to be adding support for other languages. Thanks again for your great post!

]]> By: Dzign http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-284 Dzign Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:45:45 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-284 If I read you well you can do that in iTunes by clicking the little arrow in the lighter pane of iTunes where you see the name of the track(on it's right); it'll bring you right to the playing track... As for new features I'd say don't overdo it... concentrate on perfecting what's already there; lowering cpu + memory- removing all bugs ; making sure what's already there is solid as rock and will be ready to port to Leopard; perfecting the interface, loading time, etc... One obvious change I would do is add localisation to make it more "worldly" I, for one, don't want Awaken to be able to wash dishes, reformat the hard drive or change the oil in my car.. ;) Keep up the good work ! If I read you well you can do that in iTunes by clicking the little arrow in the lighter pane of iTunes where you see the name of the track(on it’s right); it’ll bring you right to the playing track…

As for new features I’d say don’t overdo it… concentrate on perfecting what’s already there; lowering cpu + memory- removing all bugs ; making sure what’s already there is solid as rock and will be ready to port to Leopard; perfecting the interface, loading time, etc… One obvious change I would do is add localisation to make it more “worldly” I, for one, don’t want Awaken to be able to wash dishes, reformat the hard drive or change the oil in my car.. ;) Keep up the good work !

]]> By: Georgie-Boy http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-282 Georgie-Boy Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:06:57 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-282 --RE Clicking the album art.-- Sorry if I didn't explain it properly, what I meant was that while I might be scooting about in iTunes doing something else; building playlists or burning a CD or whatever I then loose the place of the playing track if I want to grab it and drag it into a playlist or whatever I might want to do. If I could just click on the album art within Awaken and have it bring up itunes with the currently playing track having already been selected/highlighted it would be a convienient way of pulling it up to do with it what I might want. I kinda expected it to be there and it wasn't.. just thought it would be a nice little addition? Important though - arrow pointer, not hyperlink finger click cursor on mouseover! :) I can't wait for the next beta! Having the rating would be awesome! And I can't wait to see a new full screen either! :D (that was one long comment! hope it made some sence! lol) –RE Clicking the album art.–
Sorry if I didn’t explain it properly, what I meant was that while I might be scooting about in iTunes doing something else; building playlists or burning a CD or whatever I then loose the place of the playing track if I want to grab it and drag it into a playlist or whatever I might want to do. If I could just click on the album art within Awaken and have it bring up itunes with the currently playing track having already been selected/highlighted it would be a convienient way of pulling it up to do with it what I might want. I kinda expected it to be there and it wasn’t.. just thought it would be a nice little addition? Important though - arrow pointer, not hyperlink finger click cursor on mouseover! :)

I can’t wait for the next beta! Having the rating would be awesome! And I can’t wait to see a new full screen either! :D

(that was one long comment! hope it made some sence! lol)

]]> By: sam http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-278 sam Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:41:55 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-278 exactly, Jerry ! thanks :) exactly, Jerry ! thanks :)

]]> By: Jerry Brace http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-275 Jerry Brace Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:17:21 +0000 http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/01/31/awaken-31-beta-2-ready-to-go/#comment-275 Thanks for the great feedback guys. Sam - in the Awaken preferences, click the iTunes icon - you will see an option for hiding iTunes. Is that what you were looking for? Georgie-Boy - Rating the music on mouse over sounds like an awesome idea - I'll see if I can get that in the next beta. About the fullscreen mode - yes, there are update coming for that :) I'm not sure about clicking the album art to bring up the track in iTunes. iTunes is already playing the current track... Maybe you can explain this further. Thanks again! Thanks for the great feedback guys.

Sam - in the Awaken preferences, click the iTunes icon - you will see an option for hiding iTunes. Is that what you were looking for?

Georgie-Boy - Rating the music on mouse over sounds like an awesome idea - I’ll see if I can get that in the next beta. About the fullscreen mode - yes, there are update coming for that :) I’m not sure about clicking the album art to bring up the track in iTunes. iTunes is already playing the current track… Maybe you can explain this further.

Thanks again!

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