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BravoBug is happy to announce today the 1.2 update to IconBurglar: the ultimate icon extractor for Mac! IconBurglar allows you to easily view the icons, images, and sound files of all your favorite apps. IconBurglar gives you powerful icon extraction with an easy drag ‘n drop interface. Drag any file, folder, app, or volume onto the icon canvas. Adjust the size and your desired output format (PNG, JPG, TIFF, or ICNs), and then drag the icon to your desktop (or anywhere else). IconBurglar also allows easy resource browsing: view images and sounds inside of directories and app bundles, and save out copies with a single click.

The new 1.2 update to IconBurglar is free for registered users and includes over twenty improvements including:

• New Burglar Bag to save copies of your favorite icons
• New search field for instant Spotlight-style sorting. Just type the name of an app and it appears instantly in the list!
• Improved ICNs support: now save out ICNs files for any file, folder, app, or volume!
• Improved drag ‘n drop support
• More auto-searching options
• More icon canvas options
• Updated help book
• and more!

Click here to download IconBurglar and try it for yourself! IconBurglar is Shareware. Unregistered copies allow unlimited browsing/viewing, but only 25 saves/exports before the  save features become disabled. If you find it useful, please register your copy to help support its development!

Coming soon :

EasyBatch 1.6: EasyBatch is getting fine-tuned in 1.6, with a fresh coat of polish and internal improvements that include more efficient memory handling, engine tweaks, and several brand-spanking-new features including a built-in scaling calculator, and a text-based watermark generator. The 1.6 upgrade will be free for registered users, but will likely be coupled with a price increase for new licenses (EasyBatch is currently only $15!). So if you haven’t tried 1.5 yet, download EasyBatch and give it a go while the price is unchanged. If you find EasyBatch useful, please support its development before the official 1.6 release by registering your copy.

IconBurglar v1.2: Improvements to Drag ‘n Drop under Snow Leopard (10.6), improvements to the canvas and image viewer, better copy-and-paste support of images and sound resources, and more!

Multiplayer Mega BrickBash 3000: A new two player mode (with completely new gameplay and levels!) against either AI opponents or a friend across the ‘net.

MacMetronome v1.1: More beat samples and other improvements.

Stay tuned!

BravoBug is happy to announce today the new 1.4 update to MiLife, the Mac’s most unique and fun diary and journal software. MiLife makes it easy to keep a diary or journal of personal notes. It features password protection, encryption, automatic page dating/sorting, mood settings, weather settings, ambient soundtracks, backup tools, easy exporting, full rich text support, one-click photo importing, diary-wide search tools, and much more.

This new 1.4 update to MiLife is free for registered users and contains a dozen new features and improvements including:

• Brand new Table of Contents feature to view a complete index of your diary
• New Mood Analyzer to see your most frequently recorded emotions
• Properly localized date formatting (as set in System Preferences)
• New Jump To Page tool for quick page-hopping
• Numerous interface improvements
• and more!

MiLife is free to try, so download MiLife and start writing (requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 10.6 recommended). Or visit the official MiLife webpage for more details. If you like writing with MiLife please support its development by registering your copy today.

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Stay tuned for the official release of MiLife 1.4, a brand new version of the unique Mac diary app. This update is free for registered users and includes a new Table of Contents feature, a mood analyzer, properly localized dates, numerous interface improvements, and more!

BravoBug is happy to announce today the release of MiLife Edit v1.0. MiLife Edit allows you to decorate your MiLife diary app by creating a custom theme with fun background templates, and stickers that can be stretched, rotated, colorized, and rearranged.

MiLife Edit includes 30 stickers and 9 custom templates including the original Silly, Christmas, and Thanksgiving themes, plus all new paper and HUD templates.

Stickers can be added from the included library, or you can easily import images from the web or your favorite clipart library. For the final touches, you can use the template slider to adjust your backdrop size, and the UI Preview slider to see exactly how the theme will appear once it is installed . MiLife Edit is freeware and can be used on registered or unregistered copies of MiLife. (Installing themes requires MiLife 1.3.x) If you enjoy using MiLife please register your copy to support its development.

A brand new BravoBug freeeware app is in its final stages of development: MiLife Edit is a fun graphical theme editor you can use to modify the window themes for MiLife. Use pre-made background templates (or import your own), apply stickers, adjust, rotate, resize, and colorize. Then save your custom themes into MiLife (or as an image) with a single click.

MiLife Edit v1.0 is almost ready for release and will be announced here on the blog, so check back soon!

MiLife has been updated to version 1.3.1. This version includes the following changes:

• Fixed bug during diary creation when diaries had short names
• New “Snow Leopard” silly nature window theme
• ‘Foggy’ option added to weather menu
• Improved help menu and default window theme

This update to MiLife is free for registered users. To update your copy of MiLife, simply download the new disk image and drag the new MiLife app into your Applications folder (or wherever your old copy of MiLife 1.3.0 is). When the Finder asks if you’d like to replace the old copy of MiLife, click Replace. Your diaries and settings will not be affected.

If you have questions about using MiLife or suggestions, please contact BravoBug. And if you enjoy using MiLife please register your copy today! Thank you for supporting Mac Shareware.

Coming soon: MiLife 1.3.1! MiLife 1.3.1 is a minor update which includes a fix for a bug that occurred when trying to create diaries with short names (less than 10 characters). It also includes a new Snow Leopard window theme, a new ‘Foggy’ weather option, and several other improvements. MiLife 1.3.1 is a free update for all registered users. The full download will be announced here within the next two days, so check back soon!

PS: Don’t forget, you can set MiLife to automatically notify you of new updates. Just click the ‘Preferences…’ button on the main window and make sure ‘Check for updates’ is enabled!

You asked for it, you got it: dual monitor support! BravoBug is happy to announce today the release of Blackout 3.3.

Blackout is a one-of-a-kind screen dimmer and focus aid for Mac OS X. Fully compatible with Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6), Blackout is perfect for people who work on their Macs late at night or in poorly lit conditions. New in this version (3.3):

• Dual monitor support
• On Snow Leopard, Blackout now stays in place throughout Expose animations
• Improved ‘active’ image
• New display menu icons
• Improved fade-out animation
• Increased change of spotlight-resize menu items
• Removed Switch to Stationary Spotlight alert, now switches automatically
• Removed 4 ‘Fade’ display modes
• New help screen

Download Blackout 3.3 and bring twilight time to your Mac! This update to Blackout is free for registered users of Blackout 1.x – 3.x. Blackout is free to try, but unregistered copies will run in demo mode for 15 minutes. If you find Blackout useful please support its development and purchase a Shareware license key.

Here’s a quick way to get the size of a file using NSFileManager, plus a method which can output a nicer “503kb” or “102.5MB”-style string based on the number of bytes.

Note: If you’re wondering why these numbers may not match the size you see in the Finder, well, there are a couple reasons, including changes in how the Mac OS X 10.6 Finder defines file sizes.

-(NSString*)niceSizeOfFileString:(int)bytes

{

    if(bytes<1024)

        return [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%d bytes", bytes];

    else if(bytes<1048576)

        return [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%dKB", (bytes/1024)];

    else

        return [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%.2fMB", ((float)bytes/1048576)];

}

-(int)sizeOfFile:(NSString*)path

{

    NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

    NSDictionary *attr = [fm fileAttributesAtPath: path traverseLink: NO];

    int bytes = [[attr objectForKey: NSFileSize] intValue];

    return bytes;

}