BravoBug News

Lotus Meditation Timer has been updated to 4.1. Lotus Meditation Timer is a free timer app for Mac OS X specifically designed for meditation, yoga, or exercise routines. It provides a 3-phased routine which can be fully customized. It even provides support for the Apple Remote Control so you can control your timers without leaving your cushion or yoga mat.

This version of Lotus contains a new Sumi-e/Zen window theme, and several small improvements. Here’s the full list of changes in this update:

• New Zen / Sumi-e window theme
• Donation window now no longer appears, unless entering a code
• Intro / ‘Whats New’ now no longer appears
• Added audio ‘click’ sound to non-standard UI check buttons
• Added standard Help menu item
• Updated help file to list keyboard shortcuts for timers
• Updated help file to include information on remote control compatibility
• Updated help file graphics
• Fixed buttons not working occasionally for Tiger (10.4) users

Lotus Meditation Timer is free and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

TankBuddy, the fun and easy aquarium maintenance app for Mac, has been updated to 1.0.1. TankBuddy is a free utility to help monitor and maintain aquariums. It allows easy pH, ammonia, temperature, and water change logs. You can even keep notes for your tanks and see at a glance which tanks are past due for water changes. Best of all, it’s free!

The 1.0.1 update includes a few small tweaks and improvements to TankBuddy:

• TankBuddy now remembers window size when quitting/launching
• Added red glow to overdue water change indicator for better visual feedback
• Tab/arrow keys can now be used to select tanks in your list
• Added keyboard/menu shortcuts for updating pH, ammonia, temperature, and water change logs
• Fixed modal behavior in tank stat update sheet

TankBuddy requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Download TankBuddy for your Mac or visit the official page for more info. Happy fishkeeping!

Wishes to you for a very wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Thanks for visiting the blog. Don’t forget to check out the FunBox Mac Bundle sale, it is officially underway!

Okay so Blackout 3.4 isn’t quite ready yet. It’s got a bunch of cool features still in the works which aren’t yet fully-cooked enough to be served to the masses. But the Mac’s ultimate screen dimmer has been updated to 3.3.1 in preparation for 3.4, and this update may be small, but it packs several nifty improvements, including: new system status menu buttons and controls, an improved help menu, a better keyboard shortcut recorder, improved dual display controls, and even a new app icon.

So stop by the official Blackout webpage to grab Blackout 3.3.1 for your Mac (requires 10.5 or later). And stay tuned for the 3.4 release!

The BravoBug FunBox holiday Mac app bundle sale.

Starts November 26th, 2009

More details to come

TankBuddy is free aquarium maintenance app for your Mac, designed to make monitoring the habitats of your underwater pets fun and easy. Keep track of pH levels, temperatures, ammonia levels, and water changes with TankBuddy’s colorful interface. Keep notes for each tank, track measurements over time, and see at a glance which of your tanks are past due for a water change. TankBuddy has plenty of options including choices between metric and standard (G/L and C/F), custom colors for pH and NH3/NH4 indicators, and more.

TankBuddy is free and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Visit the official TankBuddy webpage to download for your Mac.

“A fishkeeper’s best friend!”

TankBuddy is a Mac app to help monitor and maintain aquariums. Easy enough for a single betta bowl, robust enough for professional fishkeepers! Stay tuned for more details and the official release. Also in the works: Blackout 3.4, new two-player MBB3k, and more.

Lotus Meditation Timer is an easy and flexible timer designed specifically for meditation. It includes a three-phased timer routine, flexible timer options, many soothing alarm sounds, Sessions to save and switch between timer settings, a no-sleep option to keep your Mac awake, and support for the Apple Remote (control your timers without leaving your cushion).

This update fixes the remote control for Snow Leopard users (requires Apple’s OS X 10.6.2 update), fixes a graphic in the Original style, and provides a new and improved help menu.

Lotus is free. Donations are greatly appreciated. You can download Lotus here.

A helpful denizen of the web pointed out a bug in the PathFind Demo code which caused the algorithm to hang under certain map situations. The bug has been fixed and the demo XCode project (with updated source code) can be downloaded here.

The FindPath demo is a sample XCode project which shows how to implement the A-Star pathfinding algorithm in Objective-C/Foundation/Cocoa. This updated version also has a nifty (but slow) animation option to watch the algorithm in action.

Demo Video

BravoBug is happy to announce today the 3.0 update to MacTimer, a free all-purpose timer utility for Mac OS X. MacTimer provides easy, limitless timers which can be customized in appearance, duration, title, and alarm sound. Timers can be run in a handy fullscreen mode or minimized to the dock – now with live updates!

For more info, head on over to the official MacTimer page and check out the new features! (Requires 10.4 or later).