MacTF 1.1
A new version of MacTF has been released. This update contains mainly bugfixes and reliability improvements.

USB errors should now time out, and commands now check to see if the Toppy is responsive before they ask for anything. This means that even if there was an error somewhere that further commands should hopefully work without requiring a physical resetting of the USB by re-plugging.

And perhaps most importantly (for me at least!), the upload bug that caused some files to fail has hopefully been solved. I always suspected it was a file-size related error, but could never work out the pattern. Luckily peteru (the developer of the Linux command-line tool puppy) hit upon the same bug in the Topfield USB protocol/firmware. So now I am able to easily avoid the bug, and uploading seems to work great.

MacTF-EPG 0.7
A new version of MacTF-EPG (0.7) is available. This version beefs up the keyword functionality by adding exact matches, auto recording and variable paddings. These functions are only really useful in regard to people who use the epg_uploader TAP.

More generally, a "Check for update..." function has been added and a there has been a reworking of how and when TGD files are loaded and saved. This means that now on startup all the TGD files are loaded into memory, sorted and then written out. They are also written out on quit and after a few other actions. What this means is that if you Force Quit the app it may not have had a chance to write out yet. And startup time is a bit slower, although it runs on a seperate thread so hopefully it won't be a problem. If you switch to the keyword pane too quick you can catch it doing it's stuff, but just give it a sec to finish up.

This change was made to fix up some bugs where the list of entries got out of sync with what was actually on disk, and also to simplify (and speed up) the selection of TGD files on the left pane. However, because the new left-pane code uses predicate searching to work, it means that there's not all that much chance of getting it running on <10.4. So sorry to any people still on 10.3 but v0.5.3 will be your last version (although I could mod v0.6 to work if needed).

Forums offline
I had to take the forums offline. They weren't used very much and took up the bulk of the limited space I have. I'll try to incorporate the info they contained into a FAQ, and they may make a return in the future.

On the plus side, I fixed the blog's CSS, and now have room to write posts here