Booxter 2.7.1, Lion compatible, plus updates
Posted by Matt | Filed under Updates
Hello everyone, Booxter 2.7.1 has now been released. Booxter now supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. There are also updates to improve wireless sharing with your iOS devices, some interface updates, and some search site updates. I’ve also added the missing Help file that explains how barcode scanning from your iPhone into Booxter works.
Tags: booxter, mac app store, update
Booxter 2.7 – Added barcode scanning from iOS to Mac
Posted by Matt | Filed under Updates
Booxter 2.7 has been released! Now you can scan barcodes from your iOS device into Booxter wirelessly!
It’s easy to use:
1. Launch Booxter on your Mac and open either the multiple add panel (Command-Shift-M) or the code panel (Command-Option-C). Now you are ready to receive scans.
2. Launch Booxter on your iOS device. Tap the camera icon at the top of the screen. Hold up the barcode to the camera (in portrait mode), let it focus, and the scan will be sent wirelessly to Booxter on your Mac.
The multiple add panel has an ‘add later’ feature, and the code panel has a full screen view, so feel free to use whichever one works best for you. Check “Speak titles of scanned items” in the Preferences, and the code panel will speak the title names once they are scanned in. This comes in handy when you are scanning a lot of items and your back is to the computer screen.
If Booxter on the Mac is not running or you are not near your Mac, you can still scan barcodes with the iOS app. The scans will be stored on your device, and will be uploaded when you bring up the add scan panels as above. So feel free to scan at the bookstore or library and load the barcodes into Booxter when you get home.
Video scanning requires iOS 4.2 and an iPhone 3GS or later or iPod Touch with camera. If you don’t have a camera on your iOS device, you can still use the included keypad to manually enter codes.
There are 2 known issues: on iOS 3.1.3, Booxter won’t launch, and on iOS > 4.2 the camera won’t show up. I’ve fixed these bugs and uploaded a new version to Apple and asked them to expedite the approval, so hopefully that minor update will be approved very soon.
In addition, Amazon Italy has been added as a search site, a lot of searching, backfilling and importing bugs have been fixed, and there’s a new option in the Preferences to change the color scheme of the detail panel from dark to light.
Thanks for your patience, I hope you find this new feature useful.
Tags: app store, barcode, booxter, mac app store, scanner, update
Deep Prose Twitter account added
Posted by Matt | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve set up a Twitter account for Deep Prose: http://twitter.com/#!/deepprose where I will post relevant information and updates about the various Mac, iPhone and iPad apps around here.
I don’t tend to talk your ear off on Twitter, so feel free to follow!
Booxter for iPhone updated
Posted by Matt | Filed under Updates
A few weeks ago, the update to Booxter on the iPhone was released. The biggest request, search, has been added, so you can now search your libraries on your iPhones.
I updated the UI to make things look nicer, and also fixed some memory bugs when transferring large libraries over to the iPhone. Also fixed a bug where you could end up with an empty zombie library in some cases if the transfer from your Mac to your iPhone was interrupted.
There’s now an email option on the detail screen, in the Settings you can specify a default email address, and send items by email.
Also a new icon, looks better now.
Thank you for the feedback that I’ve received, its very valuable. I’m working on new stuff, onward and upward!
Tags: app store, booxter, iphone, update
New version of Cyclops
Posted by Matt | Filed under Updates
A new version of Cyclops has been released on the App Store
The interface has been improved so things look a lot better. There are email/open in Safari toolbar buttons on the detail page now which are more conveniently placed. Everything is a lot tighter now.
Apple changed their policy on how developers can load images from the camera preview (for security reasons) so this update makes Cyclops fully compliant with that. In order to use the video scanning, you will have to update to iOS 4.2.
I added a keypad as well, for older iPhones, devices without cameras, and devices running iOS < 4.2.
And there’s a new icon.
Enjoy!
Tags: Amazon, booxter, Cyclops, EAN, iphone, scanner, UPC, update