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"Fine-grained control"? Hardly.
Authored by: loren_ryter on Nov 26, '05 03:25:09PM
You'll be happy to know that many of these suggestions have been implemented in Cast Away 1.5, just released on Version Tracker.

There are heaps of new features here, so there may be some issues remaining, but I've just spent a good deal of T-Giving weekend coding and debugging, much to the irritation of my gf. ;-) So far total shareware payments for Cast Away = $7. ;-)

  • MAJOR UPDATE!
  • Greatly improved flexibility in handling podcasts.
  • Options per podcast went from 5 to 19.
  • Separate handling of short and long episodes of a podcast
  • Separate handling of over-rides for short / long podcasts and for removing / unchecking. (Making 4 groups of over-rides).
  • New over-rides: size cap in megabytes, keep latest X episodes, and keep unheard.
  • Detailed results reporting in plain language.
  • Test mode provides ability to test settings without removing or unchecking episodes.
  • Rewrote information tab and further improvements to tool tips.
  • Resizable interface.
  • Fixed an interface incompatibility with Panther introduced in last version.
  • Added ability to immediately remove files rather than trash to avoid empty trash problems.
  • Better internal debug info that can be copied and sent to developer.


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"Fine-grained control"? Hardly.
Authored by: DocMan on Nov 28, '05 05:20:28AM

Woot!

Thanks for the quick work! I'll have to check it out this week.

Doc



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"Fine-grained control"? Hardly.
Authored by: loren_ryter on Nov 28, '05 10:57:33AM

and, as a result of adding all the new features in 1.5, people complained the interface was too complicated (as I thought they would), so I worked all day yesterday and designed another more intuitive interface with 1.6.

I've got one more idea in mind, but need to figure out a technical limitation first.



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