We don’t run sales very often, but we have enjoyed another great year making Mac software, and as our thanks to you, we’d like to offer everyone 20% off our entire product line. Stop by our web site and use coupon code HOLIDAY08 during checkout. This offer is good through the end of December.
We’re pleased to be participating in a great promotion to help Mac users save money on some great software. Now in its third year, ‘Give Good Food to Your Mac‘, is organized by Indie developers from all over the world.
Through November 30th, 2008, Mac users can create their own “cocktail” of apps and enjoy increasing discounts starting at 20% for 3 apps and up to an amazing 50% for 5 apps or more. Diversity and quality are main features of this community action. Every Mac user can download and “taste” more than 60 apps and enjoy discounts ranging from 20% to 50%.
Among this year’s participating developers are: You Software, Comic Boom, Cheetah 3D, PulpMotion, RapidWeaver, Tangerine! GhostReader, DEVONthink, HoudahSpot, Renamer4mac and many more.
To learn more about the promotion and take advantage of the great savings, please visit the promotion’s web site:
We are happy to once again be participating with many other Mac software developers in the MacSanta year-end sale. Each day through December 24, five companies are featured on the MacSanta site. Those five companies are offering their products at 20% off for that day only.
Today (December 15) You Software is being featured, so if you purchase any of our great products, make sure to enter the MACSANTA07 coupon code in the coupon box during the checkout process to take advantage of this great offer.
If you miss this special deal, we’re still offering 10% off for the rest of December. Just use the 10% off coupon code of MACSANTA07TEN during the checkout process.
Make sure to keep checking out the MacSanta website for other great deals being offered by all the participating companies.
We just wanted to give you a quick update from our initial post on where we are in getting all of You Software’s applications updated for Leopard compatibility. Once we received the final version of Leopard, we were able to find a few specific issues affecting parts of the applications, though the shipping versions are usable for the most part.
We’d like to thank all of our users for their patience as we get updates of these applications built and tested. Please keep an eye on our home page and this blog for additional updates.
The one general compatibility issue in all the applications is a bug affecting setting hot keys via the menus which can cause a crash. This issue has been solved; the fix will appear in each application as updates are released.
If you have issues that are not mentioned here that have not been reported, please contact us via email at support@yousoftware.com so we can evaluate the problems and get them corrected.
In an earlier post, we have announced the first beta release of You Control 1.6. This addresses the majority of issues found with You Control; please read that post for what has been fixed (and known remaining issues).
In general, You Control: Desktops appears to be working in Leopard. We are investigating a couple of user-reported issues that we are still researching and have an update in the works. Updates to You Control: Desktops will be rolled into the ongoing You Control: Desktops 1.3 beta release cycle.
Note that we currently do not support running Spaces and You Control: Desktops simultaneously, so when you run You Control: Desktops, make sure Spaces is disabled first.
You Control: Fonts has two minor issues with not properly showing your FontBook collections and Favorites. These issues will be addressed in an upcoming update. In addition, there is the general problem with setting hot keys in the menus. We expect to have an update available shortly addressing these issues.
The two issues with You Control: Tunes are unrated stars in the menu bar have a white background and the issue with setting hot keys in the menu. Both of these issues have been addressed in the Tunes module in You Control 1.6 b1; we’ll have a stand-alone You Control: Tunes release with these same fixes available shortly.
[Update - October 28 Apple seeded the final version of Leopard to developers late on Friday. We have been doing compatibility testing through the weekend and are aware of a couple of problems that are being investigated. There is a general problem with assigning hot keys in the menus across the product line. We are investigating this and hope to have a fix shortly.]
With the arrival of Leopard (Mac OS 10.5), we thought it would be a good time to update you on the status of compatibility of our products with the new operating system. The short (and sweet) answer is that, in general, everything works pretty well. There are a couple of caveats, so read on to see the specifics for each product.
Note that all of the testing we have been doing has been with developer preview seeds that Apple periodically distributes to third-party developers. To date we (and other independent software companies) have not received the official GM build of Leopard, so there is always the possibility that Apple has made some last minute change that could cause a problem.
If you have encounter any problems using our applications on Leopard, please send us an email. We are committed to addressing any issues that might crop us as quickly as possible.
You Control works fine in Leopard, with the exception of two modules, Fast User Switching and Calendar. Leopard has completely redone how it handles iCal events and to dos, so much of the Calendar module is being rewritten to support this. Look for an update to You Control to be released this fall with this functionality.
You Control: Desktops works well under Leopard. As you may be aware, Apple has introduced Spaces in Leopard; this is a virtual desktops application that is basically a simpler version of You Control: Desktops. We think most of you will prefer the configurability and power user features that come with You Control: Desktops.
Note that we currently do not support running Spaces and You Control: Desktops simultaneously, so when you run You Control: Desktops, make sure Spaces is disabled first.
Everything appears to work fine in You Control: Fonts on Leopard.
We have seen no compatibility issues with You Control: Tunes in our testing on Leopard.
[Update - October 28 Unrated stars in the menu bar have a white background; we will fix this in an upcoming update.]
We are pleased to announce that we are participating in the MacSanta year-end sale. Now through December 25th, all of our products are 20% off. Just enter the MACSANTA coupon code in the coupon box during the checkout process to take advantage of this great offer.
What’s even better is the MacSanta promotion is being honored by a number of Mac software companies. There are all kinds of great software available, all at a 20% discount. Visit the MacSanta website and check out all the companies that are participating in this promotion.
Host Chuck Joiner interviews You Software co-founder Colin Gray for the recent episode of MacVoices, The Talk of the Mac Community. Click here.
MacVoices #672: Colin Gray of You Software Talks about You Control Desktops, Spaces and Virtual Desktop Utilization
Sep 28, 2006
“Check out You Control: Desktops. You can get a taste of Spaces in Leopard now, really at a pro strength level rather than what we expect to see coming in Leopard.”
“I use it on my PowerBook every day, I love it.”
- Chuck Joiner, MacVoices
We have launched a new website today and will be focusing exclusively on Mac software.
You Software and the You Control family of Macintosh products (You Control, You Control: Desktops, You Control: Fonts and You Control: Tunes) have been acquired by founding members of the original You Software team. Our mission is to continue to create award-winning products designed to make the Mac software you use everyday work better.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and feature requests as we work to bring you new products and upgrades. If you would like to join the beta test list to receive updates on the pre-release versions, please sign up here.
Stay tuned for more information and software updates at the new You Software!
The Universal Binary versions of the entire You Control product line are currently in development. Please watch our website for announcements of public betas and final releases.
If you would like to join the beta test list to receive updates on the pre-release versions, please sign up here.
You Software will no longer distribute or support You Synchronize software. The contract with the developer was not renewed this year. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we were unable to come to an agreement to continue distributing this software. For more information on future versions of this product, please contact Jason Weber at: jason@jasonweber.com
You Software will continue to develop and support all of the You Control line of products: You Control, You Control: Desktops, You Control: Fonts and You Control: Tunes.