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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