A crashing bug was reported by David Zizza in the variations drawer handling. David also suggested a small usability feature regarding loading variations. Here’s the changelog:

• Fixed: a critical bug that caused ImageFramer to crash when working with variation that used different frames.
• New: When loading designs into the variations drawer, if they were not named specifically before saving through the variations table, they’ll now be loaded and shown in the table using their file name. If the user did change the default variation name before saving, it will be shown instead of the file name. So both approaches now produces easier variation handling
• Fixed: In french localization, the save setting dialog could become too narrow, causing the buttons on the buttom to collide. Fixed by limiting the minimum width of the save dialog to accommodate the longer french text.

Download the new version from http://www.apparentsoft.com/imageframer/download.

ImageFramer version 2.4.1 is out with the following changes:

• Added new option in File menu to save the image over original image. Defaults to same target image (if tif, png or jpg) and size derived from original.
• Saving to TIFF files now adds ‘.tif’ extension instead of ‘.tiff’

Above changes allow for easy interoperability with other applications that use ImageFramer as an external editor, like Adobe Lightroom. You can now add ImageFramer as an external editor in Lightroom. Then in Photos menu select Edit In > ImageFramer.

Let Lightroom render the file as 8-bit TIF and launch ImageFramer for you. When you add your frame, select File > Save Image… from the menu and it will default to overwrite the original file with the size derived from it as well. The framed image will be nicely stacked (if you chose so) with the original in the Library.

Apparent Software is glad to announce its second application for Mac: Cashculator.

Cashculator is a unique and easy to use application which helps you better forecast your financial future and make correct financial decisions for your family or business.

Cashculator is not yet released but we’re opening beta testing. Learn more and sign up for beta testing or add your email to be notified of Cashculator release at Cashculator homepage.

We’re glad to announce new design for the Apparent Software web site.

The new design is totally new look, including new logo.

Also, second application, Cashculator, was added.

Update: Version 2.3 was replaced by 2.3.1 due to a critical bug.

ImageFramer release 2.3 has the following new features:

• 12 new frames in Real collection. All frames were contributed by existing users
• If shadows are enabled ImageFramer will now export images with the falling (outside the frame) shadow on a transparent background (In JPG on white background).
• Fixed export size for setting ‘As viewed’ in export dialog. Now takes zoom into account.
• License keys were updated and will regenerated for ImageFramer 2.3
• License dialog will now show your license type (Personal, Family or Commercial).

From now on the development will focus heavily on ImageFramer 3, which will be a major update with lots of new features and GUI updates.

We’re glad to announce the immediate release of ImageFramer 2.2.2. The main change is the addition of 20 high-quality frames. These were kindly contributed by one of our dedicated customers. The frames are mostly in wooden set, but also in metal-like, in golden and in Real/Artistic set.

Another small fix fixes behavior when removing an existing variation form the list.

The size of the DMG file also grew to 34MB because of the added graphics. Everyone, update your copy. If you enable automatic updates, you’ll receive this automatically and in a smaller file.

This is a bug fix and behaviour fix release. Mainly, two things were fixed:

1. Made “Controls” button only open/close controls window and not Colors panel as well.
2. Fixes crash when selecting a frame, then closing window with red button.

Both issues were reported to me by Kosta, my recently joined partner.

I’m glad to tell that I am going to the European Mac developers conference in Hatfield, UK on April 16-17. I hope to meet great people there and learn more about different aspects of Cocoa programming. I will also use this opportunity to travel in UK a bit, since I’ve never been there.

To learn more about the conference visit: http://www.nsconference.com

Jacob.

I’m glad to announce that my long-time friend Kosta Rozen has agreed to join me in Apparent Software to lead Business Development.

Kosta has experience managing IT projects and also experience at programming. His deep analytical skills and the desire to build a sustainable and growing business will be very benefitial to our mutual success. It will also, hopefully, will take some load off of me and at the same time allow our business to reach new heights. It feels much better not being a one-man show anymore.

We’re already planning ahead to diversify the portfolio of Apparent Software with new program(s), alongside planning better marketing and promotion for ImageFramer.

Stay tuned for additional reports on our progress.

ImageFramer 2.2 Release notes:

• Over 30 new frames. Most frames were contributed by existing users.
• A new “Manufacturers” collection, which includes real frames from several manufacturers.
• Resizing frames and mats can now be performed right on the preview screen. For example to resize the frame:
  1. Click somewhere on the frame. The cursor will change to a resize cursor.
  2. Hold mouse pressed and move the mouse towards the center to increase width or outwards to make the frame thinner.
• The same applies to mats. Click and drag on any mat directly on screen.
• ImageFramer now automatically rotates images on load, based on their EXIF orientation tag.