My Software and Leopard

8 Nov 2007

A few emails from users of my software (thank you) and my own testing has revealed that both the ShowOff screensaver and Retrospective breaks under Mac OS X 10.5.

• ShowOff Screensaver
  The screensaver refuses to run at all and crashes either System Preferences when configuring or the Screensaver Engine upon activation. Appears related to reading the preferences and loading some resources, and interestingly the preview window works. I am not entirely convinced what the cause is, but I am investigating and will hopefully have a compatible version ready soon.

• Retrospective 1.2b3
  Apple changed the caching system for Safari 3 in Leopard to make the cache and history searchable by Spotlight. While it breaks Retrospective’s ability to search the cache, it also makes it somewhat obsolete. With Spotlight finding webpages previously visited, the argument of Retrospective is moot. If you would like to see Retrospective development continued, please leave a comment or send me an email.

• ShowOff Widget works perfectly.