Socialite 1.4.0 improves stability, memory usage and drops 10.5 support

The new version of Socialite has some usability improvements along with lots of bug fixing and performance improvements. It also drops support for Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. If you need to download the last version that worked with 10.5 and PowerPC’s download version 1.3.9.

Release notes for Socialite 1.4.0:

  • Better memory management, especially when using Socialite for a long time.
  • Always show events in favorites/starred containers.
  • Fix loading in RSS URLs with “|” in URLs.
  • If there’s an active filter (search), “Mark All as Read” will only mark read the filtered events.
  • Delay start of search (filtering) by about half a second to allow fast typing of search terms.
  • Twitter: user’s newly posted tweets are now initially unread.
  • Facebook: user’s own status updates become unread if there are new comments for them.
  • Lots of bug fixes and stability improvements
  • Updated Growl framework to version 1.3.1 SDK.

Cashculator 1.1.5 fixes averages bug

There was a bug in Cashculator 1.1.4 and average plan calculations. Release 1.1.5 fixes this bug. All users are encouraged to update their copies.

Hit “Check for updates…” in Cashculator’s menu or download the new .DMG from the site.

A new newsletter was also sent out to all Cashculator subscribers. Including news and Cashculator tips. Check out previous newsletters at and subscribe from the same page.

Cashculator 1.1.4 fixes a critical bug

A bug was present in Cashculator 1.1.3 that could cause Cashculatorto hang in some cases when switch plan to average mode. Thanks to Dan for finding this and leading to the cause. Full release notes:

  • FIX: Cashculator could sometimes hang when switching plan to Average
  • Updated German localization All tutorials are now available in German
  • Updated Russian localization All tutorials are now available in Russian

As usual, autoupdate from Cashculator menu or download from http://www.apparentsoft.com/cashculator/download

Cashculator 1.1.1 bugfix release

Cashculator version 1.1.1 has several important bug fixes and is recommended to all current Cashculator customers. List of changes:

  • Fixed possible crash on Leopard – sometimes a crash occurred on 10.5 (Leopard) systems when using short horizons.
  • Fixed average calculations inconsitency – In some cases average plans were calculated wrong.
  • Not being able to set an average plan – Fixed a rare case where a plan couldn’t be set to be average.

Download Cashculator from: http://www.apparentsoft.com/cashculator/download

Lighttpd and ruby on rails were making me Google problems

Wow, it took me a really long time to notice, and I feel almost stupid now.

I didn’t pay any attention but Google never brought any traffic to the Apparent Software website. But somehow it didn’t bother me as much, I was busy developing. A few days ago I noticed this and started to look into the source.

Looking at the server log files I noticed that all my responses for pages were HTTP status 404 (page not found). Apparently, Google doesn’t index requests that return code 404 (and it really shoudn’t).

I use Ruby On Rails (RoR) for my Apparent Software website and lighttpd with Fast-CGI to serve it. The easiest way to serve with Fast-CGI and RoR is setting the webapp to be the 404 error handler in lighttpd, using the following line of code:

server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"

In the specific version of lighttpd web server that I was using (1.4.16) there was this nasty bug that stripped HTTP response header from the app in this case. So today I upgraded to the latest stable 1.4.19 and, voila, the response code is back to normal (200). 

Now, hopefully, Google and its lesser brothers will catch up, crawl the site, index and divert some search traffic into Apparent Software and another site I had with the same issue. I wonder how long it will take. I’ll keep updated. 

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