Announcing the Product Blog
This site has operated a blog for several years now, but it is mostly focused on .NET development topics. Occasionally I've wanted to post product specific information, but haven't wanted to put this...
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WebCopy 2.0 - Rules and Query Strings
Note: WebCopy 2.0 isn't even in alpha yet. Images and descriptions below are from prototype's testing the feasibility of new functionality and how it might work. These features might never see the...
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Gif Animator and Image Effects
Although we haven't really drawn attention to it by providing samples or SDK documentation, all of Cyotek's products are extensible in various ways. As long as you can code in a .NET language and can...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.0.9.0 released - multiple hosts and proxy server support
The latest update to WebCopy has just been released, and includes two new features which expand the usefulness of the product.These features are considered experimental at this stage - they haven't...
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A sneak peak at upcoming features for the color palette editor
Updates have been slow the last few months as most of our development time has been on rewriting our application framework, which I'll talk about in another post.With this post, I wanted to quickly...
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First looks at multiple documents and docking windows
Two years ago we created a prototype for a new version of the help authoring tool we used to offer. The main reason for the prototype was to trial writing a new product using test driven development...
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Upcoming support for portable settings
In my last "all products" update, I discussed how the user interface was being made more useful. In this second, shorter, update I will briefly cover upcoming changes to settings.As with the previous...
View ArticleGif Animator 0.0.3.0 Beta Released
Today I'm pleased to announce the latest update for Gif Animator has been released. This new version is the first of our products to use new libraries that provide much more functionality that was...
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Gif Animator's new transparency tool
GIF images have both their strong sides and their downsides. Whilst not supporting any form of alpha transparency, they do offer turning one colour entry per frame into a fully transparent pixel.I've...
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Resizing and cropping, round 1
The next update to the Gif Animator is fast approaching, and it's quite a big one - there's a very long list of both bug fixes and new features. In fact, I'm pretty pleased with the way the product is...
View ArticleGif Animator 0.0.4.0 Beta Released
It hasn't been long since the last update to Gif Animator and although I don't want to make a habit of cluttering the product blog with boring release notifications I'll probably make an exception for...
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Potential support for localization
After the last mammoth update to Gif Animator, I wanted a task that was slightly distracting rather than just fixing bugs. A couple of requests in the past have been about localization, so I had a look...
View ArticleCOMODO Certificate Revoked
For the past two years, all Cyotek products have been digitally signed, providing some peace of mind that when you download one of our products you can be certain it hasn't been tampered with.At some...
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Creating preview images from a colour palette
If you use Cyotek's Color Palette Editor to create palettes that are displayed on community sites such as forums, then it can be handy to display a preview of the palette.A new feature in the Palette...
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WebCopy and some welcome form updates
One of the biggest sources of support requests for WebCopy are to do with posting forms, and WebCopy's ongoing inability to handle dynamic values. Thankfully, with WebCopy 1.0.10.0 this issue has...
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On WebCopy, Continuous Integration, .NET Framework 4.5 and end of Windows XP...
This is quite a long post so I'm just going to add an important bit of news here - WebCopy 1.1 will not be able to be installed or ran on Windows XPWebCopy, like most Cyotek products, is built in C#...
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Effect Presets and Image Optimization
I'm currently juggling time between our different software products, trying to balance bug fixes for one to general improvements to another. Today, I want to show a glimpse of some improvements being...
View ArticleBug tracking and software updates, or when free software isn't free
When a molehill becomes a mountainAs I finalize this post, I'm staring at almost 2000 emails, all of which are automated error notifications. Around 1000 of these are for WebCopy alone, stretching back...
View ArticleStatus update
It's now been more than a month since my slightly glum post about the state of WebCopy (and other product) updates, so I thought I'd post a brief update.The last month has been spent developing and...
View Articlesrcset attribute support, custom attributes, 300 status support and more
A new beta version of WebCopy has been released, containing a range of features and bug fixes.If you're finding WebCopy useful, please donate to keep the project aliveCustom AttributesIf you tried to...
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Identifying genuine Cyotek software
Update 07Jan2017. As of January 2017, all binaries are signed as Cyotek LtdEvery so often, we'll receive a Google alert which has a link to HerdProtect or TotalVirus with a page merrily listing one of...
View ArticleIntroducing nightly builds
At the start of the year, all of our build processes were finally CI friendly and wired up to Jenkins. Now, whenever a commit is made to our SVN repository, the relevant products are built, tested, and...
View Article.NET 4.6 is now required for all Cyotek products
It's been a year since I announced that WebCopy would be moving from Microsoft .NET 3.5 to 4.5, therefore ending XP support. As Microsoft have now discontinued support for 3.5 and 4.5, all Cyotek...
View ArticleIntroducing CopyTools 2.0
Out of our product range, my own personal favourite is CopyTools. This program has been working in the background for years quietly ensuring every digital file of import is backed up, and even...
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Introducing Delete Profiles
Since CopyTools was first introduced, it has supported the copying and moving files only. While files could be deleted, this was only as part of a mirrored profile job and not something you could...
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Dynamic color schemes now available in Palette Editor (+ localization)
Back in 2014, I posted a brief article with a sneak peak at upcoming color scheme functionality and undo/redo support. While the undo/redo feature was deployed with the next build of the software,...
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Transforming hyperlinks when copying websites
Recently a website I infrequently use was badly defaced, and in the course of repairing the damage the owners of the site temporarily took it down. As I found it to be a very useful resource I lamented...
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Palette Editor 1.6; in and out
A new release of Cyotek Palette Editor is now available. The focus of this release is to expand on how you get data in and out of the Palette Editor.Import and ExportTo start with, the original Import...
View ArticleForgotten Developments 01 - The Roguelike
Shortly after getting our Boulder Dash clone to a playable state and celebrating the fact that a game had finally been "completed", I wanted to create something more original and decided to create a...
View ArticleOn Product Feedback
It's been a few months since the installation programs for our products were updated to request feedback on when the affected product is uninstalled. Since percolating through our different release...
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WebCopy 1.4 beta released
A beta version of WebCopy 1.4 complete with a fundamental change to how rules are ran, various performance improvements, UI tweaks and miscellaneous bug fixes has been released.Rule ChangesIn previous...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.5 beta released
A new beta of WebCopy has been released, one I hope will resolve some of the plethora of uninstall feedback I've been receiving recently relating to users having problems logging into web sites using...
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WebCopy 1.7 - web browser authentication
There are five main features WebCopy (and Sitemap Creator) need based on user feedback and our own observations. In no particular order, these are making the product easier to use, supporting multiple...
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WebCopy 1.7 - tls/ssl invalid certificate handling
You should add an option to ignore checking for an SSL certificate. The above quote is the last part of a piece of uninstallation feedback I received about WebCopy on Friday. This isn't the first time...
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WebCopy 1.7 - local file name generation
As part of WebCopy 1.7's mission to reduce user confusion and make the product more appealing, a pair of new options for controlling local file name generation have been introduced, as well as...
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Website history gallery
The Cyotek (and Ariad Software) websites have gone through a lot of iterations over the years. The current website software dates from 2011, with the design from 2013, and both are in drastic need of...
View ArticleIntroducing WebCopy 1.8
It's been over two months since the last CI build of WebCopy was made, and during this time I've been working quite hard on some major internal refactoring and adding a long requested feature. It hope...
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WebCopy 1.8 - New Project Wizard
In my previous post regarding WebCopy 1.8, I briefly covered a general grab-bag of some of the new features in this version. This post is dedicated to another new feature, the New Project Wizard.Whilst...
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WebCopy 1.8 - JavaScript Support
One of the long standing requests/complaints is for WebCopy to support JavaScript enabled websites, e.g. modern SPA's where JavaScript is used to build the page. Traditionally this is something I have...
View ArticleRemoval of support for Windows Vista, Windows 8 and early versions of Windows 10
Future versions of Cyotek products will retarget to use .NET Framework 4.8, from the current of 4.6.This change will mean that newer versions of our products will no longer be able to be used on...
View ArticleIntroducing 64bit builds
Previously the only Cyotek product which included 64bit binaries was WebCopy, and these weren't especially easy to discover. Future builds of Cyotek products will include separate setup programs (or...
View ArticleCrowdStrike Falcon False Positives
For the past several months the CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection platform has been flagging builds of our WebCopy and Sitemap Creator products as malicious.A few weeks after this originally...
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