You Software has announced the immediate availability of version 1.5 of You Control. This update offers a variety of new features and enhancements to a number of the modules. Among the highlights are:

• Improved file information and handling in the File System module
• Integration between the Address Book module and Google Maps
• Added an uptime monitor to the CPU Monitor module
• Enhanced iTunes module for better display when listening to tracks from internet radio stations and shared music
• And approximately two dozen other enhancements and fixes to a variety of modules

We recommend that all You Control users running Mac OS X 10.4 and higher update to this version.

Here are the full release notes:

General:

Improved compatibility with latest Leopard (10.5) seeds

Menu Bar Right positioning should work correctly again

Fixed a situation in which the hot key menu would not display in certain multi-monitor situations.

Minor bug fixes

File System:

New Feature – Added File Info for applications

New Feature – File Info now displays the file’s Kind

New Feature – Added “Show in Finder” command

Fixed a bug that could cause file type and creator information to be wrong on Intel Macs

CPU Monitor:

New Feature: Added an uptime monitor in the list of CPU information

Address Book:

New Feature – Added an option for mapping addresses using Google Maps

News Reader:

Feed URLs copied from Safari are now handled correctly when adding new feeds.

Pasteboard:

Added fix for issue in which pasteboard would some times paste the incorrect entry

Calendar:

Added better error handling for situations in which calendars have events with invalid data

Clock:

Fixed issue which would cause Clock module to not load on the latest Leopard (10.5) seed

iTunes:

New Feature: Toggle Shuffle command – Added a menu item to toggle the shuffle mode on the current playlist. You can also set a hot key for this (like any other command)

New Feature: Ticker Duration – You can now specify for how long the ticker will display in the menu bar (including always on)

Improved Podcast support – Podcasts are now in their own submenu instead of in the Playlists menu

Improved Radio Station support – Streamed stations now display current track and overlay information for each new track (assuming the station provides the information)

Support for music libraries stored in custom locations

Revised iTunes monitoring for faster and more accurate track information

Better information now provided for non-local tracks (i.e. tracks from iPods, streamed Internet radio stations, or tracks shared from another computer)

Improved handling on non-Latin characters

Playing a track from a playlist will now play the track from within the playlist

Added Disc Number to the track information displayed

Fixed a bug preventing playback of albums and playlists with non-Latin characters.

Changed logic so the overlay and ticker will reappear when resuming the same track.

Fixed a bug preventing playing tracks on non-Engish versions of iTunes

Compatibility with changes introduced in iTunes 7.1 – 7.3

Added hidden preference for turning off library parsing (can be helpful for very large libraries)

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