Mac version 0.9 available
After more than a week the new version of Waveboard for Mac is available. This release includes some major changes which make using Google Wave more comfortable. Here is a little summary of the features:
Inbox Notifications
Waveboard takes its update notifications from an information that is available from the Google Waves title informations. These counting is sometimes confusing and not very informative. Therefore the new “Inbox Notification” periodically reads the changes from the Inbox folder of Google Wave. In Growl it then displays the name of the wave, the count of unread changes and the last changed blip and it’s author. This way you don’t need to open Waveboard to see what the changes are about. It is also very useful if you want to use it together with the iPhone Push Notification.
To use this feature go to the preferences and choose “Account”. Enter your Google Account credentials (not your Wave address) and check if these informations are valid. Then select an interval from the drop down below. If you use this way of notification, the old notification method will be turned off.
Global Hotkey
In the preferences you can define a keyboard shortcut that for global access. Even if Waveboard is not the frontmost and active application you can use this shortcut to bring the Waveboard window to front. If you press the shortcut again or while the window is visible, the window will be hidden.
Location
With “Open Location” or by pressing CMD+L a dialog for location change appears. It can handle URLs and Wave IDs. If the pasteboard contains useful informations they will be filled into the textfield.
Other Changes
These are some more changes:
- Status menu icon appearance can be changed
- Find in text dialog has been added
- Toolbar has been added for navigation and loading indication
- More Mac like keyboard shortcuts have been added
- User Agent Information can be changed to imitate “Safari” to avoid troubles with some Plugins and services
- Option to hide the window on application launch