The progress on the next release of Nymphicus for Windows has been great the last weeks so that after we have had some tests with a limited testers group we now gonna open it as a public beta for everyone. So if you would like to try using Nymphicus, its special idea of the Views and the Snarl integration now also with Facebook (any mixture possible) have a look at our beta download page.

As you can test yourself the current Beta 2 is already quite usable and has all the most wanted features already up and running it is still a beta so if you find something not working as expected let us know so we are able to finish a final release as soon as possible.

The first update of Nymphicus for Windows has just hit the download server and can now be installed by you. And here are all changes in this update:

1) Read It Later, Instapaper, del.icio.us and pinboard.in sending of single links or complete tweets has been added to the enhanced context menu

2) Twitlonger is now integrated – so if you write a tweet with more than 140 characters it is automatically shortened. The other way round if someone write a Twitlonger text it is shown in full in the list window directly – no extra clicking on the (cont) link needed

3) In general there are quite some new context menu items – e. g. the possibility to decide which of your accounts you want to use to retweet a tweet.

4) Links in info boxes are now always clickable

5) And here the rest of the changelog:

• Streaming interface error handling greatly improved
• Sending in compose window not triggered by presseing Return but Ctrl+Return now (to write multiline tweets)
• Update available window now more polished
• Startup account verification now background thread -> windows stays accessible and its faster
• Search in search window now a background thread -> window stays usable during search
• Create view window of First Start Wizard greatly enhanced and now used also when adding a view in preferences

• • select all
• • invert selection
• • select all of one kind at once

• Update check is now a background thread and does not slow down startup anymore
• New list creation window nicer design, name textbox max length 25 chars (limit from Twitter) and if an error occures the info about is shown in a message box
• Number of items in the main window is now limited to save RAM – for now to 500 items in maximum (if more the oldest are not shown)
• Compose window now has TopMost-flag to be (if possible) in front of all windows currently open
• Fix: Setup did not create start menu entries and first start was done on wrong user account if using non privileged account on Vista/7
• Fix: Edit lists window did not show correct list of lists directly after opening
• Fix: Filter were not applied on items directly loaded on startup but only for updates
• Fix: Retweets done using the actions menu in a Snarl notification were not shown (updated) in list window
• Some more smaller bugfixes

Nymphicus for Mac 1.1 will follow in a few days…

Last night at round about 2:00 AM local German time the important email hit our mailboxes: Nymphicus for Mac 1.0 has been reviewed by Apple and is now available in the Mac App Store. So exciting to see all our work from over half a year now getting out on the street to you.

We wouldn’t be programmers by if we wouldn’t already working on the first update which will be Nymphicus 1.1. This update will bring the last features we originally planned already for 1.0 (mainly Read It Later and Twitlonger) as well as some nice new ideas and for sure some bugfixes which will for sure come by the time more people use it and find some issues neither we nor the beta testers found.

But now I am dancing to “On the floor” by Jennifer Lopez just feeling good 🙂

I can’t believe it but just a few seconds ago I uploaded the official final Nymphicus for Windows 1.0 setup to my webserver and it can now be downloaded, tested and purchased by everyone.

After more than a half year of concept, development and testing we are very proud that it is done now.

If you wonder where the Mac version is – be patient as we need to be patient too. Also Nymphicus for Mac 1.0 is done and ready to download – as soon as the Mac App Store review process is completed. We can’t say how soon that will be but I think within the next few days I can add another blog post here… 🙂

Also the website has been updated in many places – the most important changes are:

• Download page added
• Purchase page added
• FAQ updated
• Documentation Windows added
• Documentation Mac added

Beta testers all get a free license code as a big thank you. I already added hopefully all of you to my central license database so Nymphicus should pick up the license automatically. Please send me an email if not.

We already have a roadmap for 1.1 and will start working on it now 🙂

But for today I think both of us are ready for some kind of party.