Feeder

Licence: Shareware (US$ 29.95)
Version 1.5.7/628 | Release Date: 2008-09-24 | Download
  • iTunes Store preview Info window updated to match iTunes 8.
  • Freshly duplicated items are now shown as unpublished.
  • The Sparkle framework version can now be set in the Info drawer. When Sparkle 1.5 is chosen, this will change Feeder's validation to ensure that either DSA signatures are present or secure Enclosure URLs used.
  • DSA Signature is now shown by default for feeds that use the Sparkle extensions.
  • Added the ability to generate Sparkle DSA signatures and MD5 sums from a local file independent of the enclosure.
  • Fixed a problem with the display of folder icons in the server browser on Leopard.
  • Fix problem where default file locations weren't being updated for MobileMe servers.
  • Feeder is now a signed application, so that Leopard users won't need to authorize Feeder to wake your Mac from sleep for scheduled publishing or to retrieve passwords from the keychain in future versions.
Version 1.5.6/475 | Release Date: 2008-08-05 | Download
  • Changed the behavior of auto-completion so that no suggestion is initially selected to prevent accidental completion.
  • Added a contextual menu to the list of servers in the Servers window.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause the publication time to move on by an hour when editing dates that are not in the same daylight savings time as the current date.
  • Fixed a problem where folder icons could appear stretched when browsing a server.
  • Change to ensure the local cache is never used when reloading feeds.
Version 1.5.5/418 | Release Date: 2008-07-14 | Download
  • Updated for MobileMe - the URLs for feeds and other files published to an iDisk now use me.com instead of mac.com in the address, apart from Homepage addresses.
  • Now supports adding tags and artwork to ringtone (m4r) files.
  • Fixed a problem where ampersands in the URL wouldn't be encoded in the automatically generated atom:link tag.
  • Fixed a problem where apostrophes could be included in upload's generated filenames.
  • Fixed a problem with auto-complete on Mac OS X Leopard.
Version 1.5.4/394 | Release Date: 2008-06-03 | Download
  • Adds support for the Sparkle 1.5 minimum system version tag.
  • Added automatic correction of invalid manually entered PodTrac redirects.
  • Generated URLs of uploaded enclosures and images will now include any port specified for the web site.
  • The generated Enclosure Type for MP4 files is now always "video/mp4".
  • Fixed problems that could cause crashes when tagging MP3 files.
  • Fixed a problem where dragging enclosure files or URLs to feeds in the sidebar, when that feed hadn't yet been selected, could cause other items in the feed to be lost.
  • Fixed a problem where attributes, such as "align", on div or paragraph tags were stripped when items were saved.
  • Fixed a problem where pressing Enter on the Enclosure URL and Media Thumbnail fields would insert a newline.
  • Fixed a problem specifying dates in AppleScript.
Version 1.5.3/378 | Release Date: 2008-04-04 | Download
  • Fixes a crash when sending pings after publishing on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
  • Improvements when dragging a Media thumbnail file to the item editor.
Version 1.5.2/370 | Release Date: 2008-03-07 | Download
  • Changed to allow iTunes podcast artwork up to 600px square, as per Apple's updated specification.
  • Added support for many more feed languages.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when switching between iTunes podcast feeds.
  • Fixed a spelling error shown in the error message for when no iTunes category was chosen.
Version 1.5.1 | Release Date: 2008-02-19 | Download
  • Added a trailing slash to the Media RSS namespace.
  • Fixed a problem in Leopard where the appearance of the enclosure upload section the editor could become corrupted when selecting text in the URL field.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when between iTunes podcast feeds.
  • Fixed the appearance of the shadow in the title of the item preview on Mac OS X 10.5.2.
Version 1.5 | Release Date: 2008-02-08 | Download
  • User interface updated for Leopard
  • Media RSS Thumbnails for Miro
  • Improved performance when tagging MP4 videos
  • Enclosure Redirects for podcast statistic sites such as blubrry.com
  • Can now publish using Password-less SFTP
  • Editing improvements for pasting links and using templates
  • Specify default servers for enclosures and images during publishing setup
  • Automatic generation of MD5 sums and DSA signatures for Sparkle Appcasting
  • Improved AppleScript
Version 1.4.10 | Release Date: 2007-12-12 | Download
  • Fixed a problem where switching between feeds that had stylesheets and feeds that did not would cause Feeder to not show the details of the newly selected feed in the Info drawer.
  • Fixed a problem where clicking links in the preview would sometimes not work on Leopard or Macs with Safari 3.0 installed.
  • Updated SFTP publishing software.
Version 1.4.10 | Release Date: 2007-12-11 | Download
  • Fixed a problem where switching between feeds that had stylesheets and feeds that did not would cause Feeder to not show the details of the newly selected feed in the Info drawer.
  • Fixed a problem where clicking links in the preview would sometimes not work on Leopard or Macs with Safari 3.0 installed.
  • Updated SFTP publishing software.
Version 1.4.9 | Release Date: 2007-11-01 | Download
  • Feeds published with this version now include the atom:link element as recommended in the RSS Best Practices Profile.
  • Now shows Tiger or Leopard icons as appropriate.
  • Fixed a problem where HTML paragraph tags could be added around a closing tag that implies a parapgraph on the last line of an item's description.
  • Fixed a problem on Leopard where 24 hour times would always be interpretated as AM.
  • Fixed a problem that would prevent the "Where" field in the Info view from updating when a feed's filename was changed.
  • Now requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Version 1.4.8 | Release Date: 2007-09-24 | Download
  • Fixed a problem where uploading mutliple files via SFTP would cause the application to crash.
  • Leopard compatibility changes.
Version 1.4.7 | Release Date: 2007-09-18 | Download
  • Fixed a problem where publishing to older Windows-based servers using SFTP would result in a "insufficient privileges" error.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause a crash when publishing on Intel Macs.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause the circular progress indicator in the sidebar to not animate correctly.
Version 1.4.6 | Release Date: 2007-08-14 | Download
  • Added the ablility to empty Feeder's web cache - Empty Web Cache in the Feeder menu.
  • Fixed a problem where templates would not be duplicated correctly for feeds using the Sparkle or Dublin Core extensions.
  • Updated the library used for SFTP publishing - includes fixes and improved logging functionality for identifying issues.
  • The Remove feed button is no longer in the default toolbar.
Version 1.4.5 | Release Date: 2007-07-10 | Download
  • Fix to ensure the correct publish status of future items is shown.
  • Fixed a problem where future items could be included in the uploaded feed when publishing on the same day those items are due.
  • Ensured the correct enclosure icon is shown for certain enclosure URLs.
  • Fixed a problem where Feeder would not always recognise uppercase file extensions on media enclosures.
  • Ensured the dimensions fetched with the Insert Image sheet consider the DPI of the image.
  • The New Item placeholder will no longer be shown for feeds where the original file cannot be found.
Version 1.4.4 | Release Date: 2007-05-01 | Download
  • Feeder no longer caches the responses received when fetching the attributes of enclosures and images.
  • The field being edited now remains active after an item has been saved.
  • Fix to ensure the character being typed in HTML mode is shown in the correct text or tag colour.
  • Fixed a problem where item editing windows could not be closed with the Command-W keystroke immediately after an item had been saved.
  • Fixed a problem where the enclosure preview would show the wrong filename for enclosures redirected through the Podtrac service.
Version 1.4.3 | Release Date: 2007-03-20 | Download
  • Fixed a problem where dragging an item from one feed to another could replace the items in the target feed if it hadn't already been loaded.
  • Fixed a problem where the artwork could be drawn incorrectly in the iTunes preview if the artwork specified is a landscape image less than the minimum dimensions.
  • Fixed a problem where null characters were not stripped out of text pasted from Dreamweaver, invalidating the feed.
  • Fixed a problem where PermaLink could be checked for feeds where Unique IDs were set to be generated automatically, if PermaLink was checked in the feed's template, causing an error.
Version 1.4.2 | Release Date: 2007-02-22 | Download
  • Added the ability to publish to .Mac Public and Web folders.
  • Fixed a problem where the tags of QuickTime movies with accented characters could be truncated.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when reading a podcast feed with invalid iTunes Duration tags.
  • Fix to ensure a feed is saved immediately when an item from another feed is dragged to it.
  • Fix to ensure enclosure files are not uploaded for items with future publication dates where the feed is set to not publish future items or to publish automatically.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when sending pings for a feed with no Feed URL specified (this would only happen if "Update URL After Publishing" is unchecked).
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when publishing using File Export on Intel Macs.
  • Feeder now uses Growl 0.7.6.
Version 1.4.1 | Release Date: 2007-01-30 | Download
  • Fixes a crash that could occur when publishing using File Export on Intel Macs.
  • Added Edit > Copy HTML to the menu, for copying an item's description with HTML paragraphs and line breaks.
  • Added the ability to disable the automatic formatting of paragrahs and line breaks in Editor preferences.
  • Added <em> and <strong> tags to the Insert HTML menu.
  • Minor improvements to Help files.
Version 1.4 | Release Date: 2007-01-15 | Download
  • Background and scheduled publishing
  • Support for Sparkle appcasts
  • HTML and other editing enhancements
  • Updated user interface and user experience improvements
  • Growl support
  • Many other improvements
Version 1.3.9 | Release Date: 2006-12-18 | Download

- Updated the iTunes preview to match changes after iTunes 7.
- Feeder now respects different image resolutions in the iTunes preview and artwork boxes.
- Fixed a problem where the servers pop-up menu wouldn't update in the Publish and Publish Settings sheets.
- Fixed a problem where a new server password wouldn't be used until Feeder was restarted.

Version 1.3.8 | Release Date: 2006-09-21 | Download

- iTunes preview updated to match iTunes 7.
- Fixed a problem where Feeder could fail to read sme MP4 files.
- Optimized HTML syntax coloring for very long item descriptions.
- Fixed a problem where data sizes could be incorrectly formatted in some locales.
- The cursor position is now maintained in an item's description after saving.
- Fix to prevent a loop of sheets and alerts that can occur if an error occurs when publishing and the "Show publish confirmation" is unchecked.
- Updated references to the "iTunes Music Store" in the Help files to "iTunes Store".

Version 1.3.7 | Release Date: 2006-08-22 | Download

- Fixed a problem where dragging an MP3 file to Feeder to create a new podcast item could invalidate the feed.
- Improved handling of enclosure files where the original cannot be found.
- Fixed a problem where an ampersand in the file name of an iTunes image could invalidate the feed.
- Fix to ensure Feeder's library is saved immediately when feeds are added or removed.

Version 1.3.6 | Release Date: 2006-08-04 | Download

- Fixed a problem where MP3 files tagged with Feeder might not play on Windows Media Player.
- Fixed a problem where Feeder could fail to import a feed where the Channel Link field was not present.
- Fix to disallows files or URLs to be dragged to the preview area, replacing the content (Tiger only).
- Feeder now uses Sparkle for self-installing software updates.
- Minor UI and Help improvements.

Version 1.3.5 | Release Date: not specified | Download
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