yaTimer News

yaTimer 2.3 Released

Nir Dobovizki — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:55 GMT

I’ve just uploaded yaTimer 2.3 to the web site, you can download the new version here or upgrade (for free) from any older version here.

This is a small release with only user interface improvements (I’ll post the complete change log soon) it doesn’t include any of the big exciting features I’ve been working on.

With this version I also completely redesigned the yaTimer home page, I’d love to know what you think about it (as usual you can reach me by leaving a comment on the blog, using the contact form or sending a message to the support e-mail address).

yaTimer 2.3 Release Date

Nir Dobovizki — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:18:13 GMT

I said yaTimer will be released sometime in November and yet today is December 1st and yaTimer 2.3 is still not released.

yaTimer 2.3 is ready but I decided to delay the release another week, just to let me test it better and finish updating the web site for the next version.

If you can’t wait until then send me an e-mail or use the contact form and I’ll send you a link to download the new version.

yaTimer help and development updates.

Nir Dobovizki — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:24:08 GMT

The second page of yaTimer’s documentation is now on-line, it’s a page about the details of resetting tasks in yaTimer (the image to the left is a very big reset icon).

The rest of the on-line help is delayed until the next version of yaTimer will be released, I just don’t want to have to change the new help pages when I release the next version.

yaTimer 2.3 itself is in final testing and will be released this month.

yaTimer 2.3 is now in testing

Nir Dobovizki — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:44:26 GMT

All the features, fixes and improvements that will make it into yaTimer 2.3 are finished, as always I had to delay a lot of features to the next version to keep something even remotely like a schedule.

If there are no serious bugs yaTimer 2.3 will be released this month.

yaTimer 2.3 will be a free upgrade to all yaTimer customers, you can download the current version on the download page.

yaTimer Development Update: Version 2.3 Almost Complete

Nir Dobovizki — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:00:01 GMT

The next version of yaTimer is almost done, I expect it will be finished in another week or so.

When it’s finished there is still a lot of testing to do, but based on my experience and the fact that this version is about making the existing features better and not introducing new features I expect the testing phase to be relatively short.

I estimate yaTimer 2.3 will be released sometime near the beginning of December, the actual release date will be when the version is ready.

yaTimer 2.3 will be a free upgrade to all yaTimer customers.

First Page of yaTimer’s Help is On-Line

Nir Dobovizki — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:19:54 GMT

The first page, describing the task list - yaTimer’s main window, went on-line today.

The current plan is to finish the rest of the on-line help at the rate of roughly one page a week.

As always, comments are extremely welcome.

yaTimer 2.3 Development Plans

Nir Dobovizki — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:36:58 GMT

There are a lot of small user interface improvements in my to-do list, each one, taken separately, is not worth doing – it will just not have the impact on user experience to justify the time investment.

But all of them together – that’s another thing entirely.

So, for the next version of yaTimer I’m going to put all the big features I’ve been planning on hold and add all the small user interface improvements instead.

If you have any suggestions about UI improvements to yaTimer there’s still them to add them to the next version, leave them in the comments for this post or send them to me using the contact form.

yaTimer 2.2.1 New Feature - Screen Saver Detection

Nir Dobovizki — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:01:12 GMT

As I mentioned before yaTimer 2.2.1 adds just one small feature – and this feature is screen saver detection.

If you turn this feature on (from the options window) yaTimer will automatically stop all running timers when the screen saver starts, if you use yaTimer to track time spent on the computer you can turn this on and if you forget to stop the timer when you finish your work it will stop automatically in a few minutes when the screen saver kicks in.

yaTimer 2.2.1 released

Nir Dobovizki — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:55:58 GMT

After a lot of hard work yaTimer 2.2.1 is finally released.

This is a service update, with just one tiny feature and a lot of bug fixes.

As always you can upgrade you older version for free here.

With this version I also updated my release process and automated some things that I did manually before, this set me back about a week or two for this release but it will speed up future releases.

The plan is to add this new version to the automatic updates system sometime next week.

yaTimer 2.2.1

Nir Dobovizki — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:18:04 GMT

Today the next version of yaTimer went into the final testing phase, a few more days of intensive testing and the new version will be released.

Version 2.2.1 is a minor service release, it contains a few bug fixes and only one new feature.