From Snow Leopard to Big Sur An early version of TotalFinder was first released in November 2009 during the golden days of Snow Leopard. Although many still remember that operating system with fondness, the Finder implementation of the time was ripe for improvement. We think that TotalFinder was able to really make a difference in the usability of Finder, and we found there was a great deal of…
From Sierra and High Sierra to Mojave In this post from 2017 we talked about how we found a way to run our apps TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 with System Integrity Protection (SIP) turned on. This was possible because the installation process would install our plugin components in trusted locations whilst SIP was turned off, allowing the user to turn SIP back on again after installation.…
From El Capitan to here In 2015 we realised that System Integrity Protection would stop TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 working on normally configured Macs. At the time, we felt that this would mean the end of those products as general consumer products . However, it is clear that although we don’t see the sales we used to have, there is still strong support for these products. There remains a market…
In 2016 Steve joined the efforts on TotalFinder and TotalSpaces . Alas Steve has now moved on to other projects, so Antonin and Stephen are returning to lead TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 respectively. Thanks to Steve for his efforts! The future Although Apple implemented System Integrity Protection making it difficult to install apps like TotalFinder and TotalSpaces, we have found that there is…
We have some exciting news! Steve Audette has joined BinaryAge to lead development of TotalFinder and TotalSpaces. Don’t worry, Antonin and Stephen are still involved to make the transition as smooth as possible. Help us celebrate and join the discussion to welcome Steve and share your thoughts. Who & What As longtime fans and users may know, BinaryAge launched TotalFinder in 2010 under the…
** TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 will not run on El Capitan in its default configuration. ** In our previous post we explained that the new security features of the forthcoming release of OSX may affect our apps. The end of system modifications and tweaks Both TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 work by injecting code into processes that are part of OSX. They change the way those processes work, but they…
** There is a significant risk that TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 will not run on El Capitan. ** System Integrity Protection The bad news In the WWDC keynote last week Apple announced a feature called System Integrity Protection for OSX 10.11. This feature protects the system software against modification both on disk, and in memory. Both TotalFinder and TotalSpaces2 work by injecting code into…
** Great news! Over last few months I’ve made great progress on TotalFinder. Today I’m happy to announce TotalFinder 1.6 with Colored Labels . ** Colored Labels We all remember color labels from Mountain Lion, right? In Mavericks the labels were replaced with tags represented by smaller colored dots. Under Mavericks you can now apply multiple tags to selected items. In effect it is not clear what…
That’s how people see me… Peter Fabor from The Surf Office recently made an interview with me. The photos of my armored briefcase are top secret, but I’ve described my unique portable multi-display setup: Read it at The Surf Office’s blog: http://www.thesurfoffice.com/blog/2014/4/25/meet-tony-macintosh-guy-with-armored-suitcase
** I got quite distracted at the end of the year 2013. Short answer: Mavericks release and Bitcoin fever. I didn’t write my usual yearly summary of BinaryAge story at the time. But here I am now and we should continue the tradition. Last year I wrote about the fourth year of BinaryAge .** Mavericks and tabs in Finder As you already know Apple has released OS X 10.9 with a new version of Finder…
** OSX Mavericks public release is almost upon us. What of TotalSpaces? ** The new operating system brings many changes Ever since Apple introduced fullscreen apps, users with more than one display have been staring at a useless blank second monitor while working with a fullsceen app on the other one. When OSX Mavericks was announced, Apple had done a great thing - they made it possible to keep…
** Mavericks GM is out and public version will be released later this month. Now is the time to give you an update on our progress. ** Apple did a great job on this release and we as users are quite happy with the new system. You guys should update soon. TotalFinder 1.5 is ready for Mavericks Apple implemented tabs in Finder under Mavericks. That was an important TotalFinder feature, but we…
As we mentioned in our Mavericks compatibility page , we are continuing to port TotalFinder to Mavericks. People are still talking about key features, like the side-by-side window mode , folders on top , and the automatic resizing of column widths when using column view. We’re making great progress and could use your help on the latest revisions. If you want to be part of the beta test for OS X…
** I will be attending WWDC this year. Yes, I’m super excited that I won the ticket lottery this year :-) ** Tabs in OS X 10.9? This will be my first WWDC ever. I’ve heard many good things about WWDC so I have pretty high expectations. I’m interested in all the dev stuff, but for us as a company the most important will be the revealing of OS X 10.9. There are rumors that Apple is going to…
In the last post , I introduced a couple new BinaryAge teammates and hinted that we’d have new TotalFinder and TotalSpaces releases. TotalFinder 1.4.9 has been in the wild for a month now and has been doing great. TotalSpaces 1.2.2 was released just last week and added a lot of new features! TotalFinder brings back colored sidebar Besides making TotalFinder more stable, we added some new features…
In last December’s blog post I expressed my desire for BinaryAge to become a distributed cloud company. The past few months are proving that to be my new reality. Six Thousand Miles Away Last year, I enjoyed San Francisco so much that I’ve sold everything in Prague and will be living on the West Coast for the next few months. A major plus to the distributed lifestyle is that I can work from almost…
** 2012 is over. What a great year! Let’s see what was important. This is my traditional summary of past year for people who follow this story. Last year I wrote about the third year of BinaryAge .** Stephen became my business partner Stephen is the developer of TotalSpaces . We became friends and partners in business. He is a Mac and iOS developer, hacker and radio electronics guru. He is a…
** TotalSpaces — the indispensable utility for managing and navigating your spaces in a grid ** We are launching on Tuesday! Hi, Stephen here… I am excited to make an announcement: Yes, TotalSpaces v1.0 is ready for release and will be available on Tuesday October 23rd . I feel we have come far enough for it to be a truly useful piece of software, that is stable and well tested by thousands of…
** Good news! TotalFinder 1.4 works fine under new OS X 10.8 - Mountain Lion. And it got even better. ** The upgrade is free of charge for all existing customers Although I put long hours into maintaining the software and communication with people, I didn’t really bring any major new features since the Lion upgrade. I think it’s fair to keep it as a free update. Save your budget or buy some other…
** I’m excited to announce a new product from BinaryAge. TotalSpaces is a productivity tool for Mac. You guess right, it taps into the system and improves Spaces experience. ** TotalSpaces provides several handy features for heavy Spaces users. In a way it brings back the old grid-based Spaces behavior we loved in Snow Leopard. It offers custom transitions when switching Spaces. For example…
I have just moved to San Francisco for few months. Oh boy, it has always been my dream to visit and truly experience the city. Now I’m living it! TotalFinder customers made it possible. Thank you guys! Looking for an inspiration Yeah, startups! As a podcast junkie I’m pretty familiar with the startup scene in SF. It is not that difficult. With a solid internet connection you can stay in the loop…
It was a successful year. BinaryAge has become a serious business in 2011. This is my traditional summary of the year for people who follow this story. Last year I wrote about the second year of BinaryAge . Rescue my Time! While looking back, I wonder where did I spend all my time. I haven’t completed any big features in 2011. Where did my time go? I’m into analytics and I have been using…
XRefresh is a productivity tool for web developers. It will continuously refresh a web page in a browser due to a local source file editing. LiveReload is the next evolution of XRefresh There is a new tool inspired by XRefresh called LiveReload . I have been watching its development for some time and decided to deprecate XRefresh in favor of LiveReload. Simply it is a better version of XRefresh…
This is a guest post from my friend Rico, another Indie Mac developer over at Kitestack Software who has just released version 1.0 of his app DesktopShelves. Thanks Antonin for giving me the opportunity to introduce DesktopShelves to your readers! DesktopShelves is an app that lets you organize your Mac’s desktop . If you have what it feels like a million files cluttering up your desktop and…
Good news! I’m happy to announce that all existing users will get TotalFinder Lion upgrade for free. On the other hand I will increase TotalFinder price for new customers the same day Apple releases Lion. Please read the details below. The summary Single TotalFinder binary will work on both Snow Leopard and Lion without restrictions There will be no TotalFinder upgrade fee for Lion When Apple…
I was lucky. TotalFinder is a pretty hot deal. I’m getting quite some emails from promo sites and bundle creators with offers to include TotalFinder. Thank you, maybe later. Today, I woke up with a truly brilliant idea™ … I should launch yet another promo site called MacGems.org Ok, for customers the only warm difference is that all profits would go to open-source projects. But I believe this…
I have been a bit silent recently because of my preparations for IPO48 . IPO48 is a weekend event that’s a cross between a startup bootcamp and a hackathon. First let me thank the organizers for IPO48. It was a very well prepared and supported event. They did a great job. Accelerate! The goal was to assemble a team and present a viable product to judges at the end of the day. I’ve had quite a bit…
This is a bit of a schizophrenic situation, but I just agreed with myself to spend 20% time on projects which are not related to TotalFinder. Yes, inspired by Google’s idea . It has to be fun! Working on TotalFinder is still fun. But the time I spend on emails is greater than the time spent programming new features. Nobody can do support better than me. Sad, but true. I spent last weekend with…
It was a wonderfully busy year. Today I had a few moments to sit down and look back. Prior to reading you may want to read about the first year of BinaryAge . TotalFinder with Tabs! I found out that really the tabs is what people want. And later I realized they are also willing to pay for it. This is my site’s traffic after publishing the article TotalFinder with Tabs on Jan 11: Transpond acquired…
** Today, I’m happy to announce a new major release of TotalFinder. The new version includes Cut&Paste and many small improvements and fixes . You may grab TotalFinder 1.1 today for just $9 via MacUpdate Promo . ** Cut&Paste should be a human right We all know Cut&Paste when working with text, right? Move files and folders with cut & paste was the single most requested feature on the forums. Now…
** I have been giving free licenses to people who contributed their time to TotalFinder. As a side effect I’ve also had tons of emails from students asking for a free license or discount . Their reason is mostly “because I’m poor” or something similar. ** I have also been a student for a big part of my life But asking for something just because I was poor always seemed like a bad idea to me. Next…
UPDATE: Two months after I started selling TotalFinder I've decided to remove this option. This experiment had zero traction. I would rather simplify licensing and instead focus more on making the product awesome. If you have any special licensing needs, please contact me at antonin@binaryage.com . Thanks! ** Captain Kirk just called me. He wants to buy a multi-license for his crew. But the…
** I promised some fun here and here is the announcement of the lottery winners. I have here almost $1000 worth of licenses for lucky crash reporters. ** How does the lottery work? I’ve had over 11000 crash reports during this year. That is a scary number. But the big portion of them were infamous crashes of the broken expiration code in 0.9.5 . That is fair, everyone had a chance to send a crash…
** Today is one year since I started hacking on TotalFinder . And today is the first day you can buy a license if you want to support the next years of development. ** http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-1.0.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changes Yeah, TotalFinder has the Mojo Not everything is perfect of course, but… just hit it! </param> </param> </param>…
** I’m in better control of my time now, so I can set the launch date to Sep 27, 2010. I have almost a whole month to polish the product, write docs and open the store. ** It is a special day. It’s TotalFinder’s birthday! Please don’t miss the event. TotalFinder will turn one year since the very first commit. It is quite interesting to look back at how it started. In the mid of September 2009 I…
** New TotalFinder 0.9.9 is out. Nothing exciting here. Just embarrassment that I managed to break auto-updater. ** http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.9.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changes Hey you! Don’t click that button! I didn’t notice it, but I broke the Sparkle updater in previous releases. The relaunch script is missing in 0.9.7 and 0.9.8. Instead of…
** I have been overwhelmed by the positive reactions and growing user count. So I decided to quit my job and start working on TotalFinder full time. ** Born to make something people want I have been doing some open-source work for a while in my spare time and my tools for web developers became quite popular. My Firefox extensions are active every day in about 50k Firefox installations (according…
** Hey, TotalFinder 0.9.8 is out. Unfortunately nothing much new. Just fighting fires. ** http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.8.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html The crashing nightmares 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 were pretty bad releases. There was a bug introduced by new localization code. Both versions started crashing immediately after expiration.…
My mom always told me: “write automated tests, my boy” But you know… I had always better things to do. After expiration TotalFinder wants to say something… But my localization function crashes for some reason in Russian, Japanese and Chinese versions. And maybe in others too! I would guess translators haven't used localization string placeholders correctly or it's something on my side. The reason…
It’s finally here, TotalFinder 0.9.6 adds the toolbar pill button and also got bunch of fresh new localizations. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.6.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html Toolbar Pill Button Toolbar Pill Button was one of the top requested features . It wasn’t as easy to implement as it looks, but I’ve finally cracked it. I had to…
TotalFinder 0.9.5 is here. This release added localization support and a few fixes. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.5.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html Translate TotalFinder and get a free license I’m pretty sure that you understand that translation must be an ongoing process. TotalFinder will be getting new features over time and of course I…
TotalFinder 0.9.3 is out with a few more features. This release has customizable shortcuts. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.3.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html Customizable Shortcuts People with AZERTY keyboards had problem with my choice of keyboard shortcuts in 0.9.1. I decided to solve the problem once for all. You can now define your own…
TotalFinder 0.9.1 is out with many improvements and some stability fixes. Maybe I should start calling it a beta?! What do you think? :-) http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.9.1.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html The major feature: “no major features” I still have my head full of crazy ideas about exciting new features for TotalFinder but I decided to…
TotalFinder 0.8.3 does not rely on SIMBL anymore. It plugs into Finder.app on its own. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.8.3.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html TotalFinder loves SIMBL, but SIMBL scares people on the streets SIMBL is a great and well maintained software. All kudos to Mike Solomon who has been doing an awesome job on it for so many…
TotalFinder 0.8.2 is another stability release. Just fixing bloody bugs. We need to get solid base for new exciting features, agreed? http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.8.2.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html TotalFinder and TimeMachine TotalFinder is now aware of TimeMachine. This was quite tricky. You know, when entering TimeMachine, the active…
I’m working hard on the TotalFinder 1.0 release. Today I want to show you an exclusive screenshot from the upcoming version. Pricing TotalFinder pricing starts at $14.99. Our sales team is working really hard on the final pricing plans: TotalFinder Home Basic with shades ($14.99) TotalFinder Business Premium with dual panel ($49.99) TotalFinder Extra Ultimate with tabs! (call us) Please don’t…
Real quick today. I want to show you a new icon for TotalFinder. I want to roll it into the next release. TotalFinder is slowly growing from a hacker-style geek guy into a very nice and friendly Mac citizen. I think it’s the time to take off the shades! I believe the new icon reflects this perfectly. Again credit goes to Raist who created it. Thanks! How do you like it? Here’s the old icon for…
I’m happy to announce that BinaryAge just got a new design! Big kudos to Raist who redesigned the site for me. How do you like it? For historical comparison here is the old homepage design: Who is that magician Raist? He has been a very best friend of mine for very long time. Back in old times we did some artistic demoscene work together with other folks from marshals.cz . Those times are over but…
I’ve just released TotalFinder 0.8.1. I don’t have any new exciting features for you today. This is a pure bugfix release. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.8.1.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html Interested in bugs’ colors? This is a list of crashes I got during the last 48 hours. I’m happy to announce I have just squashed [@askForNewFileBrowser],…
TotalFinder 0.8 is out and it makes you better again. http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-0.8.dmg The full changelog: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/changelog.html You can drag and drop files on tabs. Tabs get spring loaded after hovering. You can even drag folders out into new tabs. I’ve also fixed many crashes and quirks. Enjoy this release!