Dec 11 2007
The just released CandyBar 3 gets updated to 3.1
Is there anything wrong with a developer updating their software so soon after launch? Of course not. It’s much worse for them to withhold a valuable update from their users, I think.
This update is, indeed, valuable. CandyBar 3.1 offers 4 new features (most notably, a Dock Preview function) and nearly two dozen tweaks and changes. The folks at Panic and Iconfactory must have been working hard to get this big an update out so soon after the apps launch. (A full list follows the “read more”)
CandyBar is a utility that allows you to change the icons on your Mac system-wide while also giving you the ability to change your dock theme. It sells for USD$29.
New Features
- New “Dock Preview” in the collection view. Now see a dock style before using it!
- Dock previews can be displayed over the Desktop Picture or collection background
- Added additional changeable icons to System, including the “Location Icons”
- Added Cancel button to the Change view, to clear un-applied modified icons
Other Changes
- Added ability to add Dock parts to the current collection
- Added a top level “change” menu to improve accessibility of some features
- Can now clear a collection’s Dock
- Reorganized / improved the Save as iContainer panel options (making it easier to save Dock only iContainers)
- Added contextual menu to open icon author’s website
- Improved “deleting” feedback to clarify delete methods
- Fixed a potential issue with deleting icons/collections
- Option-Delete now acts like Command-Delete to move icons and collections to the Trash
- Icon metadata will be maintained when saving System icons to an iContainer
- Fixed a potential crash when applying volume icons
- Migrating Pixadex data no longer fails when library path has never been set
- Converting from Pixadex 1.x library now works as expected
- Importing icos with png data is now more reliable
- Can now set a custom folder/smart collection icon
- Added support for batch editing of CandyBar identifiers
- CandyBar identifiers are now sorted alphabetically in the Info window
- Fixed crash on launch when Helvetica Neue isn’t installed
- Collections can now be named the same if desired
- “Save iContainer As…” file menu is enabled in more situations
- Improved the scaling animation of Get Info / Icon look windows
- Improved text rendering, and other miscellaneous UI glitches in the Change section
- Fixed a few issues in the icon view
- Importing images larger than 512×512 will now create a 512×512 icon of that image
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