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I want to announce the availability of the next beta release of Time Tracker for Mac 1.3.9.

Changes include:

• IMPORTANT! requires Mac OS 10.5 or higher
• fixed the problem where “all tasks” was not updating the time in realtime.
• fix the problem where after selecting a different project the “all tasks” didnt show the correct time (but the time from the previously selected project)
• fixed issue 70 czech localization added (trial)
• fixed issue 65 drag and drop support was broken for tasks

You can either grab it via the updater or from here http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.9.zip

As always your comments and suggestions are very welcome.

This is a release announcement of TimeTracker 1.3.8. This is a bugfix release with the following changes.

As always you can grab the build from here or just update via the app.

If you have problems, questions or other feedback, let me know.

The source code for timetracker was migrated into a mercurial repository. It is still hosted on Google Code but it is no longer in the SVN repo. That means that the SVN repository is still available online but newer changes wont be visible unless you check out the mercurial repository. All history has been preserved.

I recommend MacHg in order to manage mercurial on a Mac. The reason for migration is mainly that I wanted to get in touch with a distributed VCS and learn. Also it helps me to work on multiple issues in parallel without needing to commit pending work to the server (while still keeping track of those changes).

If you have problems, let me know.

I want to announce the availability of the next beta release of Time Tracker for Mac 1.3.7.

Changes include:

• IMPORTANT! requires Mac OS 10.5 or higher
• added preliminary support for closing tasks (time is not counted against project)
• CSV export now uses UTF-8 which should fix some issues with foreign characters
• fixed display of time recordings when filter is selected
• added filters for “last month” and “this month”

You can either grab it via the updater or from here http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.7.zip

As always your comments and suggestions are very welcome.

I want to announce the availability of the next stable release of Time Tracker for Mac 1.3.6.

Changes include:

• changed toolbar icons to the ones courtesy of Bernard Bélanger (thanks a lot)
• finder info now shows correct app version (thanks to Russe for the tip).
• fixed issue 22 Now users can choose to display durations as decimal hours.
• fixed issue 51 Keyboard shortcut for export CSV
• fixed issue 52 resizing preferences window causes overlap

You can either grab it via the updater or from here http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.6.zip

As always your comments and suggestions are very welcome. The preferences for the decimal hour display are a bit rough, if someone has a suggestion on how it can be made more intuitive, let me know.

I want to announce the availability of the next beta release of TimerTracker for Mac. Version 1.3.5 has the following modifications:

• IMPORTANT! requires Mac OS 10.5 or higher
• fixed issue 44 where CSV export did not include seconds.
• fixed issue 45 bring back drag and drop support for projects and tasks
• fixed issue 28 added support to close the main window and leave TimeTracker running
• fixed issue 49 Text filtering broken when used in conjunction with smart filters
• fixed issue 47 filterbox sometimes appears partially out of view
• now when loading data (importing from old versions) TT makes sure that task names are not duplicated within a project

I have not marked it as public as I first want to see how “daring people” fare with this. So let me know if you have problems.

You can either grab it via the updater or from here http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.5.zip

Good news, I have fixed a few more annoying issues and now declare 1.3.4 as stable. This is now available on the new stable app cast and I will try to move existing users over to my updated version. I have also committed all outstanding changes into SVN so for the adventurous, you should be able to compile on your own. If not, let me know.

There has not really been any big new feature just a few minor updates (and sparkle updates should be working well now).

If you have 1.3.3 you should be able to get 1.3.4 automatically through sparkle. If it does not prompt you, click “Check for updates” and it should be available.

You can also directly grab the new version at

http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.4.zip

I have released the first beta after taking over the maintainership over TimeTracker. This version does not yet show up in the old users sparkle updater but it can be downloaded from the google site anyway.

As announced before, this version focuses on a new layout and more flexible filtering.

Note:

if you want to get further beta versions, go to the settings and select “Beta Releases” in the preferences.

Let me know what you think.

Grab it at: http://time-tracker-mac.googlecode.com/files/Time%20Tracker-1.3.3.zip

This is just a quick note to let you know that I will be taking over the maintainership of the TimeTracker for mac since Aaron will not have enough time available to move the app forwards in the next year or so.

So thats quite exciting news. At the moment, I have most of the functionality that I want for the next release but there are still a few bugs here and there. Also I will need to work some more on backporting some of the features of the official TimeTracker (sparkle update for once) so that I can make new versions available to people via auto updates rather than needing to work with the website.

All my code is on the google code page and I intend to use this as a repository (I know that Aarons stuff is on GitHub but I am more used to SVN).

However, I encourage participation in the project as I neither have tons of time available nor am I the absolute uber-expert on Mac OS programming. So if you know some Sparkle details, feel free to contribute.

The upcoming version will mainly feature more flexible filtering, along with being able to combine queries such as show me all entries of last thursday, or all records happened on a monday in the past 6 weeks (you get the idea, otherwise look at the screenshot in the previous post).

I will NOT yet include customers as a new grouping hierarchy mainly because I want to get the current version stable and going before I move on.

Future versions will focus on the following features

• ability to define and save custom filters (smart filters)
• adding “customers” as a new grouping hierarchy
• coredata support (could use some help there)
• nicer and better export tools (Numbers, etc. – Long way out)

Regarding a release I need to figure out how to do it properly. As I said I want to eventually make it available through sparkle so that existing users will be notified about the update. I am fairly confident that the application is reasonably stable and I haven’t lost any data in years (not even during my migration from the older timetracker version which is required since the newer version adds support for comments, etc). However, I am not really comfortable with pushing the current version out just yet. So probably I will make a “beta” available here.

Once I have added sparkle support, will then push it into the Beta channel through sparkle. Then after some fixes, I will push the main version.

Let me know your comments!

This is just a quick post so that you guys know what I am currently working on. As posted previously the main task is to make the filtering much smarter than it is today. I imagine this to work like smart playlists in itunes or smart albums in iphoto. See the screenshot for an example.

So the idea is to allow people to configure their own individual filters with elements such as

• start date
• end date
• weekday
• start date >= X days before today

If you have additional recommendations / wishes, let me know.