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r534 r540 7 7 ================================== 8 8 9 ============= 9 10 Pester 1.1b8 11 ============= 10 12 UNRELEASED—do not distribute 11 13 … … 21 23 because they don’t work yet. 22 24 25 ----------- 23 26 What is it? 27 ----------- 24 28 25 29 Don’t want to miss the bus or train? Have a meeting coming up soon and want to … … 29 33 30 34 35 ------------ 31 36 Installation 37 ------------ 32 38 33 39 Pester should work on Mac OS X 10.4 or later; it has been tested on Mac OS X … … 43 49 your Home folder. 44 50 51 ------------ 45 52 Usage 53 ------------ 46 54 47 55 Use Pester to set alarms for times in the future. Alarms that are scheduled to … … 89 97 Remove. 90 98 99 ------------- 91 100 More features 101 ------------- 92 102 93 103 Pester includes a Dock menu, which you can access by Control (⌃)-clicking … … 100 110 Pester is also fully Y3K-compliant. It can be comforting to know that even if you won’t be around then, if your Mac still works, so will Pester. 101 111 112 -------------------------- 102 113 Frequently asked questions 114 -------------------------- 103 115 104 116 Q. Why isn’t Pester a full-featured calendar/scheduling program? What use is it otherwise? … … 114 126 A. Please see my Web page for details. Essentially: don’t pass it off as your own, and give me credit if you use all or part of it in your own software. 115 127 128 -------------------------- 116 129 Version history 130 -------------------------- 117 131 118 132 1.1 / forthcoming 133 ----------------- 119 134 • Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later (Universal Binary). 120 135 • Fixed small memory leaks on alarm creation and with the “Remove” button in the alarm list window. … … 149 164 • Default to today’s date in the “at” section. 150 165 • Reduced Pester’s processor usage while alarms are pending, and while the “Set Alarm” window is open but hidden. 151 • Changed alarm storage to be more reliable, expandable and human-readable, if a bit slower. Conversion occurs at startup and is one-way (if you really need it to be two-way, the feature would not be hard to add). The alarm list should no longer become lost with a message such as “2002-11-18 00:31:24.461 Pester[8545] An error occurred while attempting to restore the alarm list: *** Incorrect archive: unexpected byte”.166 • Changed alarm storage to be more reliable, expandable and human-readable, if a bit slower. Conversion occurs at startup and is one-way (if you really need it to be two-way, the feature would not be hard to add). The alarm list should no longer become lost with a message such as “2002-11-18 00:31:24.461 Pester[8545] An error occurred while attempting to restore the alarm list: \*\*\* Incorrect archive: unexpected byte”. 152 167 • Switched to apple-generic versioning (agvtool, etc.). Xcode 2.4 or later is required to build Pester 1.1. 153 168 • Incorporated Sparkle for automatic updates. 154 169 • Creator code is now Pest instead of Pstr (the latter was already registered). 155 170 171 -------------------------- 156 172 Still to be fixed for 1.1: 173 -------------------------- 174 157 175 • Dock bouncing doesn’t work when Pester is frontmost. 158 176 • Customizable alerts: AppleScript, playback of sounds, images and movies (anything QuickTime can handle). … … 165 183 • Extremely delayed alarm times can be huge (4....... years) 166 184 185 ---------------------------------------------------- 167 186 Known bugs in this version (not to be fixed by 1.1): 187 ---------------------------------------------------- 168 188 • Type-selection of alarms by their dates and times in the alarm list only works well when the items in the list are in approximate alphabetical order; this breaks with certain date and time formats. 169 189 190 ----------------------------------------------- 170 191 Additional features planned for later versions: 192 ----------------------------------------------- 171 193 • Better repeating alarms, such as a “real time” option so you can schedule an alarm to go off every hour, on the hour, for example. 172 194 • Better handling of non-repeating expired alarms—offer the option to have the alarms go off when Pester is restarted? … … 179 201 180 202 1.0 / 14 October 2002 203 --------------------- 181 204 Added alarm list, saved alarms, Dock icon/menu, live alarm time, other features. 182 205 183 206 1.0d1 / 9 October 2002 207 ---------------------- 184 208 First public release. 185 209 210 --------------------- 186 211 Acknowledgments 212 --------------------- 187 213 188 214 Pester uses Andy Matuschak’s Sparkle, for which the following conditions apply:
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