infoscape

This version includes no new features at all but a very streamlined internal design for feed handling. Now forget about the absurd memory usage and accept my apologies for overlookin such an important issue.

Enjoy!

Memory management is not an easy thing, that’s a fact. Some languages such as Java or C# have managed (”managed”, got it?) to put this question miles away from the programmer’s worries. But Objective-C still uses a rather complex set of mechanisms to handle the memory life cycle of objects (reference counting, auto-release pools, ownership conventions…).

Infoscape requires not only an intensive use of dynamic memory mechanisms but also a multi-threaded processing model. Memory management in Obj-C is complex enough by itself alone, but adding threads into the mix makes it extremely difficult to efficiently manage resources without wasting the power of the language itself.

Version 1.3 is on its way and it will offer dramatic improvements in this area. Sorry for these tenths of megabytes wasted so far.

This release fixes a couple minor bugs and one serious crash. See the release notes for more details: http://infoscape.cyberguijarro.com/update/relnotes.html

Hmmm, what to say… I’ve been collecting some feedback after the 1.0 launch and many of the issues reported where highly annoying but not so difficul to fix, so I decided to pull out a bugfix release polishing some of these. Check out the release notes for details.

If you already use version 1.0 and have the automatic update feature enabled, update process should be not much of a trouble, otherwise please visit the download page.

Let there be dancing! infoscape has finally hit the Apple crowd with its first version. There are some bugs to fix and many features to add, but the foundation has been established. Check out the downloads page to get your fix.

Features:

• RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feed formats supported
• Customizable panel display timings
• Collapsable news panel
• Per-user settings
• Automatic updates

Don’t forget to post your bugs at http://cyberguijarro.com/mantis.

Folks, here are a few more screenshots showing how the baby looks. Expect something you can actually download & run before en of the month.

infoscape for OS X

Current status: memory management is still a complete mess and there is a lot of testing to be done. A thousand miles away from beta quality level.

More to come, stay tuned.

Yes! I knew you would love this… I finally got sick of the Mail-alike RSS readers and decided to do things my own way, again.

infoscape will be a Cocoa application running on Mac OS X 10.3 and higher. It will probably have less features than its Windows counterpart (infoscape Live! and podcast support are out for the moment) but I’ll do my best to preserve the spirit of the original application.

As many of the infoscape blog readers recognized long ago, the development of infoscape itself is no less than dead. But postings about non-related stuff kept coming into it; so finally I decided to create new blog, merging all posts related to infoscape into a more eclectic publication.

This blog will now cover information about applications of my own (including infoscape) and the usual random crap that didn’t make me famous at all, but for some reason I still enjoy publishing.

Enjoy!

Due to lack of time (well, I’m lazy too), some features have been incorportated to the software but not documented or linked to the application’s GUI properly. This is why I explain the following tricks: