Cynical Peak Software

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.

Cyndicate 1.0.1 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.

Version 1.0.1:

• Fixed filters that use the article’s author as a match criteria.
• Fixed the font display on the Inbox and Trash.
• Fixed imported Vienna OPML files.

We are proud to announce the release of Cyndicate 1.0. Cyndicate is an RSS/Atom aggregator and content management application. In other words, Cyndicate will help you manage, view, read, and rate the syndicated content or feeds you’ll find on personal blogs, news sites, forums, and around the Web.

Cyndicate 1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. The program can be registered for $29.95 USD and comes with a fully featured 21-day demonstration period.

Scorecard 1.1.2 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Scorecard’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Scorecard users.

Changes in this version are:

• Fixed an issue with applying ESC to handicaps. The change may slightly raise or lower your handicap.
• Handicaps are now rounded to one decimal place to match USGA guildlines.

MacSanta has arrived! This holiday season, we’re teaming up with leading Mac developers to bring you a great deal on our software – just in time for the holidays. Now through December 25th, you will automatically receive a 20% discount on Scorecard, as well as tons of other great Mac software.

Happy Holidays, and thanks for your business.

Scorecard 1.1 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Scorecard’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Scorecard users.

In addition to fixing a few bugs, Scorecard 1.1 has two major new features:

• Scorecard Printing – You can now print out a scorecard that has the same layout as the round entry window to take with you on the course.
• Eclectic Breakdowns – Hovering the mouse pointer over the eclectic stats in the stats window will now show you what your best score was on each hole and how you scored relative to par. Now there’s no more wondering what hole you haven’t birdied yet.

Please contact us if you have any troubles, feature requests, etc. Thanks!

That’s right, we’re doing a Windows version of Scorecard. We were getting sick of playing with the 95% of you who are not improving your game and thus slowing us down. So we decided to do something about it. Now no one will have an excuse for being stuck in the rough all of the time.

Development of the port is just beginning. So we are not announcing a release date yet. We are welcoming a new member to the team through. Diego Barros has signed on to be the man behind the porting effort. We’re excited to have him as part of the team and are looking forward to working with him.