Pear Note
Licence: Shareware
(39.99)
- Version 3.1 | Release Date: 2013-03-13 | Download
- Pear Note is now fully Retina-capable. So, if you've got a fancy new Retina MacBook Pro, Pear Note should now look a lot prettier. If you don't have one, then just pretend you never read this line.
- Support for images that can be used in Pear Note for iOS version 2.1 or greater
- Fixed bug where saving (including autosave) would cause the slides to move back
- Fixed bug that caused shared documents with special characters to display improperly when hosted on Dropbox
- Fixed bug in audio/video/slides section headers
- Fixed bugs in Spotlight results for Pear Note documents
- Fixed bugs in QuickLook generator for Pear Note documents
- Other bug fixes
- Version 3.0.3 | Release Date: 2012-09-06 | Download
- Fixed bug that prevented changing slides on Snow Leopard
- Fixed bug that prevented time from showing properly when there was more than 10 hours
- Fixed bug that caused hang when closing a document while recording
- Fixed bug that could cause errors in saving when the default save directory is deleted
- Fixed bug that caused a crash when closing a document
- Version 3.0.2 | Release Date: 2012-08-03 | Download
- Fixed bugs causing various crashes
- New Share button
- Fixed bug in buttons that caused them to be slightly fuzzy
- Version 3.0.1 | Release Date: 2012-07-25 | Download
- Fixed bug that caused crashes when closing document that contained slides
- Began signing with Developer ID for Gatekeeper in Mountain Lion
- Fixed bug in crash log submitter that prevented crash logs from being sent
- Fixed display bugs that occured when opening a new document
- Fixed bug that prevented changing slides if a document was locked
- Fixed bug that caused autosaving to fail when attempted while recording was still getting started
- Version 3.0 | Release Date: 2012-04-26 | Download
- Note - 3.0 is a major new version which drops support for Mac OS X Leopard. Version 2 will continue to work on Leopard, but do not install version 3 on Leopard.
- Support for Auto Save and Versions in Lion
- Support for full-screen mode in Lion
- New recording/playback engine improving efficiency and enabling new settings including HD video recording in Lion (HD video recording requires a capable camera)
- Integration with Call Recorder for Skype from Ecamm for taking notes on Skype calls
- Updated interface and application icon
- Updated QuickLook plugin to include slides
- Removed in-app search feature as it duplicated Spotlight and is not allowed within a sandbox
- Version 2.1.1 | Release Date: 2011-10-24 | Download
- Fixed bug that prevents File->Open from working on Lion
- Fixed bug that prevented underline from syncing properly to iPad version
- Fixed bug that could result in a broken web player when sharing
- Improved search handling of documents created on the iPad
- Version 2.1 | Release Date: 2011-08-31 | Download
- Updated file format to work with upcoming Pear Note for iPad
- Fixed major incompatibility with Lion which could cause recordings to disappear in certain situations
- Fixed bug that prevented QuickLook from reading Pear Note documents on Lion
- Fixed bug that prevented Pear Note documents from showing up in Spotlight results on Lion
- Sped up quitting
- Version 2.0.6 | Release Date: 2011-07-04 | Download
- Fixed issues with running on Lion
- NOTE: Importing Keynote and Powerpoint slides files directly (as opposed to through their respective applications) is no longer supported. See this for more information.
- Version 2.0.5 | Release Date: 2011-05-10 | Download
- Updated sharing template such that the web player will now play on newer versions of iOS on the iPad
- Added preference for how much time to jump back
- Improve handling of PowerPoint documents
- Reduced disk space used by app
- Decreased playback CPU utilization
- Bug fixes
- Version 2.0.4 | Release Date: 2011-02-18 | Download
- Improved stability
- Improved recording error handling
- Improved error handling when adding slides
- Fixed bug that could occur when adding slides to a previously saved document
- Added checking for other instances of Pear Note running on startup
- Version 2.0.3 | Release Date: 2010-12-22 | Download
- Limited CPU utilization when recording and playing
- Added support for Snow Leopard text substitution
- Improved search robustness
- Improve robustness of web sharing feature
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Version 2.0.2 | Release Date: 2010-11-08 | Download
- Limited CPU utilization when idling
- Fixed bugs causing occasional crashes
- Improved performance of sharing notes
- Improved search speed
- Fixed user interface bugs
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes
- Version 2.0.1 | Release Date: 2010-08-16 | Download
- Fixed bug in updating search cache that caused Pear Note to crash
- Improved web sharing layout for very long recordings
- Version 2.0 | Release Date: 2010-08-09 | Download
- Completely overhauled user interface
- Added sharing feature to share notes on the web
- Added playback speed control
- Greatly improved search speed and accuracy
- Added support for multiple slides files in a single note
- Added support for disabling spell checking
- Added text transformations
- Improved importing experience
- Numerous other improvements
- Version 1.4.2 | Release Date: 2010-06-09 | Download
- Handle errors in recording and importing more gracefully
- Improved first launch experience
- Fixed crash that could occur in upon launch
- Fixed crash that could occur when autosaving
- Fixed crash that could occur when importing a recording
- Version 1.4.1 | Release Date: 2010-04-13 | Download
- Handle errors when recording more gracefully, including automatically restarting recording where appropriate
- Improved ease of entering license code when Pear Note expires
- Added menu item to forget all slide changes
- Fixed crash that could occur when Pear Note trial expires
- Version 1.4 | Release Date: 2010-02-15 | Download
- Added image support, allowing images to be dragged onto the text area
- Added Find in Slides support
- Added RTFD as an additional export option when a document contains images
- Added menu item to save default window position for new documents
- Improved QuickLook generator
- User interface improvements
- Numerous reliability and stability improvements
- Version 1.3.6 | Release Date: 2010-01-08 | Download
- Fixed bug that prevented reverting to a saved document
- Version 1.3.5 | Release Date: 2009-12-11 | Download
- Added menu items for opening Video and Slides windows
- Improved handling when errors occur during recording
- Improved consistency of position within the timeline when opening a document
- Fixed bug that caused reinstalling license into all accounts to fail
- Fixed bug that caused navigation to fail in rare cases
- Fixed bug that caused video to shrink
- Fixed bug that caused video to disappear from video window in rare cases
- Version 1.3.4 | Release Date: 2009-11-20 | Download
- Improved the process of importing slides and media
- Added PDF service to make it easier to get slides from PowerPoint or Keynote into Pear Note
- Modified jumping to a slide during playback to select the time the slide was up for the longest, rather than the first time it showed
- Preserve whether slides or video window are visible when re-opening a document
- Fixed bug that caused the total number of slides to disappear when the sidebar is resized
- Fixed bug that prevented canceling exporting audio/video
- Fixed crash that could occur when undoing highlighting or lists
- Improved handling of windows that try to appear off screen
- Improved robustness and stability
- Version 1.3.3 | Release Date: 2009-10-19 | Download
- Changed slider to stretch with the window size
- Improved error handling when importing media
- Fixed bug in audio and options view that caused things to disappear when resizing
- Fixed bug that could cause documents to never load when opened in limited circumstances
- Version 1.3.2 | Release Date: 2009-09-28 | Download
- Added preference to disable highlighting characters
- Added logic to notice when run from somewhere other than Applications and offer to move myself there if so
- Improved robustness in slides switching
- Fixed bug that caused crashes when recording on Snow Leopard
- Fixed bug in Quick Lists that caused misbehavior when selection included a mix of lists and no lists
- Fixed bug that could cause the wrong slide to show when rewinding
- Fixed bug that caused the highlight well to not show selection when using menu or keyboard shortcut and no text is selected
- Fixed bug that caused the adding slides dialog to pop up on the wrong screen
- Fixed bug that caused Find Next and related menu items to fail
- Fixed typo in slides tooltip
- Additional bug fixes
- Version 1.3.1 | Release Date: 2009-09-01 | Download
- All features are now supported under Snow Leopard
- Fixed bug that caused adding some Keynote or Powerpoint files on Snow Leopard to fail
- Modified video recording to be more robust and create smaller recording files by utilizing QuickTime X on Snow Leopard
- Version 1.3 | Release Date: 2009-08-18 | Download
- Added Quick List feature to quickly add lists/outlines to Pear Note documents
- Added Highlighting feature to highlight important text within the document
- Added preference for default font to be used when creating new documents
- Other bug fixes
- Version 1.2.3 | Release Date: 2009-07-22 | Download
- Improved support for misbehaving UVC webcams
- Properly handle quoted phrases in search
- Fixed bug that could cause a document to become corrupted if a recording failed
- Fixed bug causing video preview to sometimes not show
- Fixed bug causing search indicator to sometimes not show
- Improved error handling
- Other bug fixes
- Version 1.2.2 | Release Date: 2009-06-19 | Download
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- Version 1.2.1 | Release Date: 2009-06-03 | Download
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- Version 1.2 | Release Date: 2009-04-24 | Download
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- Version 1.1.3 | Release Date: 2009-02-13 | Download
- Fixes to license validation code to make it more reliable
- Fix to bug related to switching between using betas and not
- Fix to bug that caused Pear Note to silently proceed when recording failed in the background
- Fix to bug that caused Pear Note to hang in certain cases when recording failed
- Workaround a bug in QuickTime that causes some video cameras to occasionally fail to record on the first try
- Fix error messages when recording fails
- Handle typed characters while recording is still starting up more cleanly
- Fix to preserve toolbar state
- Fix to bug that prevented exporting audio/video
- Added slide content to search metadata
- Improved support for exporting large audio/video files
- Fix to search window to ensure old contents go away
- Version 1.1.2 | Release Date: 2009-01-06 | Download
Fix to bug introduced in 1.1.1 that caused a crash when recording hours of medium quality video
- Version 1.1 | Release Date: 2008-12-21 | Download
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