Cuckoo
Licence: Shareware
($6.00)
- Version 1.2.4 | Release Date: 2008-11-13 | Download
Fixed a bug that could cause Cuckoo to not suppress its chimes during the appropriate hours.
- Version 1.2.3 | Release Date: 2008-08-05 | Download
- Localization: Added a French translation.
- Stability: Fixed a problem in the update checker that would cause multiple redundant requests to update Cuckoo.
- Version 1.2.2 | Release Date: 2008-06-03 | Download
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- Performance: Cuckoo now works harder to ensure that the chime sound (and QuickTime itself) are loaded into RAM before it's time to chime. This should help address some rare situations where chimes would be missed, or would judder and skip during playback. (Thanks to Robert, Lauren, and other users who helped me test this fix.)
- Update checking: Cuckoo now quits System Preferences when downloading an update (to ensure that the correct code is loaded when the new version is installed).
- Update checking: Stability fixes.
- Version 1.2.1 | Release Date: 2008-01-06 | Download
- Feature: New "Website" and "Feedback" buttons in the preference pane provide quick access to the toastycode website as well as email support.
- Fix: Concurrency bug causing occasional crashes of the chime agent (performing software updates on multiprocessor systems).
- Fix: Cosmetic: Corrected prefPane icon (which wasn't showing up in System Preferences for some users) and CuckooChimeAgent icon (wrong icon was included in bundle).
- Fix: Improvements to software update checking. (Reduced the likelihood of superfluous second check; update information was being accidentally clobbered by preference pane. Also improved the accuracy of anonymous system profile summary sent with each check.)
- Version 1.2.0 | Release Date: 2007-12-24 | Download
- Cuckoo can now optionally toll the hour (that is, play the sound five times at 5:00) at the top of the hour.
- Includes new “Campanile” sound: guaranteed to clear out your belfry. BONGGGG.
- Optionally, Cuckoo will check the toastycode website every few days for new releases. If an update is available, the Cuckoo preference pane will open automatically and you’ll be given the opportunity to download the new version (or ignore or defer it).
- Version 1.1.2 | Release Date: 2007-11-04 | Download
Version 1.1.2 brings full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) by eliminating a warning dialog (about running CuckooChimeAgent.app, which was downloaded from the internet) that appears upon the first reboot after installing Cuckoo. Also fixes a longstanding problem affecting unregistered users: the hourly sound would be re-set to the default every time the preference pane was opened.
- Version 1.1.1 | Release Date: 2007-07-24 | Download
Version 1.1.1 includes a bug fix for some 10.5 (Leopard) users, for whom Cuckoo (specifically, the CuckooChimeAgent) wasn't starting properly at login.
- Version 1.1.0 | Release Date: 2007-06-25 | Download
- Version 1.1.0 brings a new feature: quiet time. Cuckoo's chimes can now be suppressed:
- when iTunes or Front Row is playing audio or video
- when the screensaver is active
- when you are "away" in your chat application
- between user-specified hours of the day
- Version 1.0.5 | Release Date: 2006-10-10 | Download
- No changes specified



