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Name Mangler 2.5.1 released

Name Mangler 2.5.1 is out, available for direct customers via in-app updating (or by downloading the full version from our site), and for App Store customers via the Updates tab in the App Store...

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Touch up Tuesdays return: Moom and Witch updated

Moom 2.4.1 and Witch 3.9 were released this morning, for both direct and App Store customers. The big news in Witch 3.9 is the Font pop-up menu on the Behavior tab of Witch’s settings panel/window....

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Keymo, Time Sink, and Key Codes updated today

Today we released Keymo 1.1 (it’s first-ever update), Time Sink 1.2.1, and Key Codes 1.2. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in each one. Keymo We now support the very-often-requested ability to set...

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Desktop Curtain 3 makes your desktop clutter weep

Today we’re releasing Desktop Curtain 3.0, a major upgrade to our solution to desktop clutter. First, the important bits about this release: It’s a free upgrade to all prior purchasers of Desktop...

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Witch 3.9.1 solves the fat font problem—really!

Witch 3.9.1 is out today, and it’s got only one change—but it’s a good one, especially for those users who find the fonts in Witch 3.9 too thick, even after setting their preferred font for the...

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How to: Migrate from App Store Witch to direct Witch

As you may have heard, the App Store is now enforcing sandboxing. As such, apps that aren’t sandboxed cannot be updated with new features; only bug fix updates are acceptable. Unfortunately, with the...

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Moom 3, it’s snaptastic!

We’re please to announce the release of Moom 3, featuring a very-often-requested feature from you, our users: the ability to move and zoom windows by snapping them to screen edges or corners. You...

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How-to: Fix the Moom snap and Desktops issue

As cool as Moom 3′s new ‘snap to edges’ feature is, there’s one annoying issue that we can’t solve within Moom: if you use Desktops (Spaces in 10.6), the drag-to-edge action is used by OS X to move...

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Keymo 1.2 released

Keymo 1.2 is out now (or very shortly, for you App Store customers). Here’s what’s new and improved in this release: New double-click action. Reduced lag when using highlight. Added variable timeout...

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Mountain Lion status report (bonus: three app updates)

Now that Mountain Lion (aka OS X 10.8) is officially out, we can officially update the status of our apps. The short version: They all work. The slightly longer version: To the extent that we were able...

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Help us beta test some Witch/Mountain Lion fixes

Thanks to our dedicated Mountain Lion testers (that’d be all of you), we’ve been able to identify and, we hope, resolve a couple of issues with Witch. But before we release this in general, we’d like...

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Usher 1.1.6 released

We’ve just released Usher 1.1.6 (direct version only; see this post for details on why you should migrate, for free, from the App Store version). This version includes a couple important changes to...

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Key Codes 2.0 released

Key Codes 2.0 is now available via the Mac App Store and directly from our web site. This free utility is of interest mainly to developers, and anyone else who’s curious about the actual codes their...

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Witch 3.9.2 brings retina display support

Witch 3.9.2 has been released, in both the App Store and via our web site. The big news in this release is support for retina Macs, along with a workaround for duplicate entries for Total Finder...

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Moom 3.0.1 adds retina support

Hot on the heels of the retinaized Witch comes Moom 3.0.1 with the same high resolution support for the stunning retina Macs. There are also a number of other bug fixes in this release, so it’s highly...

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Butler 4.1.14 released

Butler 4.1.14 is now out, and if you’re running OS X 10.8.2, it’s a very highly recommended update. That’s because the main purpose of this release is to work around a bug that Apple introduced into...

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Moom and Tweetbot for Mac

tl;dr: If you use Moom and Tweetbot, download this Moom build. Please read the ‘Are there any issues…’ section below before using. There’s been quite an explosion of Twitter discussion about Tweetbot...

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Avoid a Mountain Lion bug that can affect Name Mangler

Recently, we’ve been getting a few complaints from users, complaining that Name Mangler won’t accept dragged and dropped files. We were trying to figure out what was going on, given we haven’t changed...

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Witch and RAM usage—both real and not so real

Witch, our window switching application, is designed to be always-running (what good is a window switcher if it’s not active?). The program itself exists as two components: the user interface, where...

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Add a teleporter to your multi-display Mac

If you’ve got a multi-display Mac, then you know what a drag it can be to drag things. When you have a window at the lower right corner of your right display, and you need it at the upper left corner...

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