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Update cycle complete

With today's release of PortAuthority 2.7, I have now completed updates for every one of my applications. While each product update included items specific to that application, I also focused on adding a common core of features:

• An integrated help viewer. This replaces online help (accessed from my website) and the quirky built-in OS X help viewer.

• Printing. I want users to be able to save data from my applications to a file, and also to print directly from my applications. The "save/export" functionality has been around for a while, but the printing has not.

• An improved graphics engine. Specifically, this is an image display and manipulation library called TkCximage, which is part of aMSN, a Tcl/Tk-based client for Hotmail. TkCximage displays almost any image format, and includes on-the-fly resizing of images, which is useful for the help viewer and other products I have under development.

I'm hopeful that these features make all of my applications a bit more pleasant and easy-to-use.

With the integration of these features into my current product line basically complete, I'm also going to be focusing in the coming months mostly on development of new products. As I've discussed previously, I have a lot of ideas, and I'm eager to get started on expanding my product portfolio.

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PortAuthority 2.7

I've released version 2.7 of PortAuthority, my GUI for the MacPorts Unix software management system. This release fixes a bug that caused new demo versions of the application to crash on startup; it also adds printing, an integrated help viewer, and an improved graphics engine for a sharper UI appearance. If you use MacPorts, PortAuthority is a very useful tool to have.

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