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2.1.3
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Released on April 2, 2006
- Upgraded to Universal Binary, supporting Macs
with PowerPC or Intel processors.
- Fixed problems with content from The Progressive.
- Fixed various display oddities.
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2.1.2
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Released on October 22, 2005
- Added new action button to Preview Pane: click on
this button to display a pop-up menu with various
page-related actions.
- When you position the cursor over a link in the Preview
Pane, iMedia now displays the URL of that link in the
navigation bar area.
- Fixed a problem where the Section List was not always
updated after editing a Smart Section.
- Fixed a problem where navigating the Section List
using the arrow keys did not work properly.
- You can now use the Command-1 through Command-9 keyboard
shortcuts to select any of the first nine sections.
- Added Progressive Radio segments to Programs
section.
- Removed UnderReported articles from the Headlines
section, because the site has not been updated in many months.
- Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). In fact, iMedia
may still work fine on 10.2, but we have stopped testing
on Jaguar.
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2.1.1
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Released on June 10, 2005
- Added Automator actions for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
After installing this version, you should see the iMedia
actions the next time you start Automator.
- Fixed a problem where iMedia would crash if you click on
an audio or video link in the Preview Pane.
- When started from AppleScript, iMedia no longer gives
an error on the initial script command.
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2.1
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Released on April 23, 2005
- New Media Watch section, with updates and action
alerts from media reform organizations.
- AppleScript support, for integrating iMedia with other
scriptable applications. Scripting guidelines are available
in iMedia Help, and example scripts are posted on the
iMedia AppleScripts page.
- Fixed problem with Play Audio and
Play Video on Democracy Now!,
where the web browser would be opened. Real Player should
now be opened directly once again.
- Support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
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2.0.1
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Released on December 15, 2004
- Added two new sites to the Headlines section:
truthout and UnderReported.
- When you select an item in the Section List, keyboard
focus will now shift automatically to the Preview Pane,
once the item has loaded. You can then use standard
navigation keys — Up and Down arrows, PageUp and PageDown,
Space and Shift-Space — to scroll the preview,
without clicking the mouse to shift focus. However, if you don't
like this behavior, it can be switched off in Preferences.
- The Tab key will now cycle keyboard focus between
the Section List and Preview Pane. (However, see this
FAQ entry.)
- The new Email Item URL option on the
File menu will copy the selected item's URL
and title into a new email message (in your preferred email
application), ready for you to address and send. This is also
available via a new Toolbar button (choose
Customize Toolbar from the
View menu if you don't see it).
- You can now enter a web address into the navigation bar
of the Preview Pane, and press Return to load it.
- Fixed a handful of minor but annoying bugs.
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2.0
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Released on October 3, 2004
- iMedia is now a stand-alone Mac OS X application,
and no longer runs inside Watson.
- Items are now organized into
sections (as in
the sections of a newspaper). These can be selected from
a Finder-like sidebar, or from the Sections
menu. The built-in sections match the tabs of iMedia 1.x,
except that Audio has been renamed to
Programs (since video is available for
some programs).
- New
Smart Sections (akin to Smart Playlists in
iTunes) allow you to customize which items are displayed.
You can filter on such criteria as your favorite authors,
and whether or not you've already read the item. The
Favorite Authors and Unread
Favorites sections are examples of Smart Sections; you
can edit these or create new ones.
- When you select an item, the actual web page is loaded
in the iMedia preview pane. This gives you the option of reading
directly in iMedia, without opening your browser. The 1.x
text-only preview can be restored through
Preferences, for those who prefer it.
- For radio programs, access to the streaming audio link is
now more direct, with a Play Audio button
on the toolbar. For TV programs, there is also a
Play Video toolbar button.
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1.1.5
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Released on August 13, 2004
- Fixes a problem that caused Common Dreams content
to disappear from both the Headlines
and Columns tabs.
- Fixes a problem that caused AlterNet content
to disappear from the Columns tab.
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1.1.4
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Released on June 30, 2004
- Fixes a problem that caused In These Times
content to disappear. It now all appears on the
Columns tab, since the previous
classification into Headlines was
a bit tenuous anyway.
- Fixes other minor problems, including the failure to
find direct RealAudio links for Democracy Now!
headline segments, and missing first paragraphs from
the detail window for The Progressive.
- Adds iMedia-related news items to the
Headlines tab. This is primarily
to solicit feedback on the future of iMedia, in
light of Watson's "end of life" plan, and to
make announcements about that future.
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1.1.3
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Released on March 9, 2004
- Adds better control over when unread indicators get removed:
either when the URL is opened (as before) or when the
selected item is viewed in the detail drawer. Use
Tool: Show Settings to
set this preference.
- Allows the unread indicator on a specific item to be
toggled, by Option-clicking in the unread column for
that item.
- Fixes a problem that caused Independent Media Center
content to disappear from the Headlines tab.
- Fixes sundry formatting problems with various sites.
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1.1.2
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Released on February 4, 2004
- Fixes a problem that caused Common Dreams content to
disappear from the Columns tab. No,
this isn't a cut-and-paste error: it really did break again.
- Fixes a problem that caused Your Call Radio to
disappear from the Audio tab.
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1.1.1
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Released on January 27, 2004
- Fixes a problem that caused Common Dreams content to
disappear from the Columns tab.
- Working Assets Radio had disappeared from the
Audio tab, because the show was renamed
and moved to a new site. It now appears under its new
name,Your Call with Laura Flanders.
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1.1
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Released on January 2, 2004
- New "unread" indicator column, akin to Apple Mail, on
all tabs. A story is considered "read" when the URL
is opened. (This definition of "read" may need some
work.)
- When clicking on a RealAudio URL in the detail drawer,
RealOne Player should now start directly, instead of
opening up the web browser to do it. The actual
application launched here is whichever one is bound
to the
ram or ra file
extensions via the Open With pane
of Get Info.
- Displays articles from current issue ofThe Progressive,
as well as recent web-only content from same.
- Displays three most recent Free Speech Radio News casts.
- Fixes problem that caused Common Dreams content to
disappear.
- Fixes problem that caused Independent Media Center
content to disappear. The global IMC site has been undergoing
some trauma, so this may not stay working long.
- Fixes problem where the same two-month-old Working Assets
Radio segments kept appearing. This was actually the
result of the WebActive site going into stasis.
The segments are now retrieved from the
WorkingForChange site. (Pacifica's Peacewatch
had also been retrieved from WebActive, but it is
no longer being produced in any case.)
- Fixes some display problems with Democracy Now! segment
names.
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1.0.0.4
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Released on November 29, 2003
- Fixes problem that caused Common Dreams content to
disappear.
- Fixes problem that caused Free Speech Radio News
content to disappear.
- Handling of audio segments where the RealAudio link
cannot be found is a bit better: you can now open the
relevant web page at least.
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1.0.0.3
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Released on October 26, 2003
- More consistent sorting. For example, sorting on
Posted On column no longer yields essentially
random ordering of items from the same source.
- Fixes problem where blank items would sometimes appear.
- Fixes problem that caused Common Dreams content to
disappear.
- Validated on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
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1.0.0.2
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Released on September 18, 2003
- Fixes problem where Columns tab would not get
properly updated with newly-loaded items in
Display Options: Favorite mode.
- Stories are reloaded from a site 60 minutes after the
initial load. It had been reloading after 15 minutes,
which was way too soon (and really an oversight).
- Fixes problem that caused In These Times content to
disappear.
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1.0.0.1
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Released on August 27, 2003
- Displays articles from In These Times.
- Fixes problem that caused WebActive content to
disappear.
- Fixes problem where an blank document icon would sometimes
appear in the detail drawer, and do nothing when clicked on.
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1.0.0
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Released on August 25, 2003
- Initial release of iMedia.
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