Cynical Peak Software

Cyndicate 1.1 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users. This release is mainly bug fixes with a few nice little features added in like the ability to set what count the dock show, auto-scrolling of the article list when you reach the top or bottom, and video attachments to YouTube’s feeds are now embedded in the article pane.

• Added an option to set the dock to show the count of either all unread, the inbox, or none.
• Added a fix for feeds that have bad text encodings
• Added support for youtube videos listed in the mrss format
• The article list will now auto scroll
• Changed the way favicons are loaded to try to prevent a lock
• Fixed deleting inactive feeds and their articles
• Fixed selection change when moving articles in the feed view
• Fixed automatic downloading
• Fixed delete filters on intel machines

Cyndicate 1.0.4 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users. This release is for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility. Any user upgrading to Leopard should update to Cyndicate 1.0.4 to avoid a number of issues that resulted from changes between 10.4 and 10.5.

• Fixed all known Leopard issues (sorry, can’t be more specific on these)
• Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect parsing of Atom .3 feeds.
• The update panel has been redesigned with new options.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed an issue with auto deleting unflagged articles.

Starting with the 1.0.4 beta that was posted earlier today, Cyndicate now has the option to check for cutting edge builds as well as the releases. You can choose which type of update to check for in the Updates Preference pane. Most users should use the release updates option. Only use the cutting edge option if you are comfortable running beta software.

The Release Updates option acts just like updating always has. It will notify you on any of the release versions of Cyndicate. These are the main builds that you normally see and get posted to sites like VersionTracker or Apple’s download page.

The Cutting Edge option is for beta releases. It will contain builds that have the bug fixes and new features that will appear in the next release, minus features we might want to surprise you with. Non-release updates that appear in it should be considered beta quality meaning they may contain bugs or issues that are new features and/or side effects of other bug fixes. I will try to ensure that nothing catastrophic will result from the builds, but you are using them at your own risk.

Cyndicate 1.0.4 beta is now available for download at http://cynicalpeak.com/downloads/CyndicateCutting.zip. The 1.0.4 release is mainly to fix compatibility issues with Leopard. Please submit a bug report to support@cynical peak if you know of any Leopard issues that this release does not address.

Changes since 1.0.3:

• Fixed all known Leopard issues (sorry, can’t be more specific on these)
• Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect parsing of Atom .3 feeds.
• The update panel has been redesigned with new options.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed an issue with auto deleting unflagged articles.

Only two days left to get the Mac News Junkie Bundle. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to get two great apps at over 20% off their normal price. Follow your favorite news feeds using Cyndicate from Cynical Peak Software and then archive your favorite articles using EagleFiler from C-Command Software.

Cyndicate and EagleFiler normally retail for $29.95 and $40, respectively, but October 1st you can buy both for just $55. Full-featured demos of both applications are available.

Get two great Mac applications for feeding your news addiction with the Mac News Junkie Bundle. Follow your favorite news feeds using Cyndicate from Cynical Peak Software and then archive your favorite articles using EagleFiler from C-Command Software. Cyndica’ts filters, smart folders, and automatic ratings make it easy to manage the deluge of information that is posted every day and find the news that interests you. Then when you find an article that you want to archive, simply press EagleFiler’s capture key (F1) to save the article into your EagleFiler library. EagleFiler stores the article as a Web archive, preserving all the formatting and links, and it can be filed, tagged, and searched along with the rest of your documents and mail.

Cyndicate and EagleFiler normally retail for $29.95 and $40, respectively, but from September 25th through October 1st you can buy both for just $55. Full-featured demos of both applications are available.

Cyndicate 1.0.3 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users.

• Fixed a crash that could occur if the feed contains an unknown entity.
• Fixed editing the feed’s url in the subscription managager.
• Fixed the AppleScript issue when accessing articles that are in subfolders.
• Improved performance with a couple operations.
• Sorting can now be based on non-visible columns.
• Links can now be loaded into the preview pane when clicked.

One of the big improvements in Cyndicate 1.0.2 was the beefing up of AppleScript. This was done mainly to allow for better integration with 3rd party apps. Fortunately we saw a return on the effort almost right away. The day after 1.0.2 was released, EagleFiler 1.2.5 was released. It added Cyndicate to its list of supported capture apps. If you’re not familiar with it, EagleFiler is a very cool app for archiving email, PDFs, web pages, and now articles from Cyndicate.

On a similar note, I had an inquiry today if it was possible to import Cyndicate’s articles into DEVONthink Pro like they were used to doing with other apps. A solution didn’t exist already, so I wrote an AppleScript to do it. The script will take the articles selected in Cyndicate and create a separate entry in DEVONthink Pro for each one. You can download it here.

Update: The DEVONthink script has been updated. It will now create a link item in DEVONthink if the article’s subscription is set to show linked content.

If there are any other apps like EagleFiler or DEVONthink Pro that you would like to be able to import articles into, please file a support request and we’ll try to provide scripts for them.

Note: Due to a bug in the selected article AppleScript key, only articles that are in a top level folder can be added at this time. Articles that are in subfolders will cause an error message to be given. This issue will be fixed in the forthcoming 1.0.3 release. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cyndicate 1.0.3 is out and fixes this issue.

Cyndicate 1.0.2 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users.

• Added an option to set the default toolbar action for the Share This item to any of the options.
• Added a dock menu item to fetch new articles.
• Added a menu item to the article preview pane’s contextual menu to show linked content.
• Added [[articleColorName]] and [[feedColorName]] keys to the StyleSheet template.
• Fixed an issue where new articles would not always appear right away in the feed view.
• Fixed an issue with filtering on fetch when an filter contained a folder that no longer exists.
• Fixed an issue that resulted from re-subscribing to a feed that is returning a 304.
• Fixed an issue that lead to negative new article counts in the feed view.
• Fixed a number of issues with the AppleScript support.
• Changed the column sorting to be based on the user location ordering rules.
• Changed the sorting order of the article state column to Unread, Changed, Read instead of Changed, Unread, Read.

Brad and I read with interest the article and, more importantly, the comments at this TUAW post. PulpFiction was mentioned once in the first sixty comments, and that was for its labels – something almost no other feed reader offers, despite having nearly two years since PulpFiction’s release to implement them.

PulpFiction won a large following relatively quickly, and it was because of the creativity of design and the fresh approach it took to reading feeds. It’s still the preferred feed reader by many, despite the fact that it’s not been updated in 1½ years.

One of PulpFiction’s persistent nagging features was its speed. We know this, and for the most part, we know why it was slow.

And for now, that’s all we have to say about that.