VHD Attach 3.40

Most noticeable change for this release will be new icon. Not a huge change, but a colorful one. Considering that last icon was gray-scale, I see it as a good change.

Other visible change would be New disk dialog. It is changed a bit in order to allow for more flexible size entry. Finally you can create 0.1337 GB hard drive that you always wanted.

Under the hood there were many changes. While some were bug-fixes, most of them were focused on drive management. This will finally give possibility of drive letter change in next version (currently being tested).

Download is available from within application or via program pages.

P.S. If someone is interested in checking drive letter management beta all you need to do is to send me a mail.

VHD Attach 3.30

VHD Attach is updated once more.

One personal annoyance is finally fixed. It was always difficult for me to find auto-mounted disks. I auto-mount them right after installation and then, month later, I cannot find where they are exactly. Now all those disks will be added to list of recently used files.

With that sorted out I proceeded with adding taskbar progress for creation of fixed drive. Funny thing that someone who wrote how easy adding it to your application can be took sweet time to do it himself. Regardless of shame, now operation progress can be checked with just quick taskbar glance.

For detail-obsessed there is parsing of dynamic disk header. Not much, but it will make someone happy.

Of course there was some generic bug bashing but let’s not get into it.

Check pages for download or use built-in upgrade.

[2012-05-31: Yes, there is bug-fix out already. :)]

MagiWOL 3.30

Nothing to look here, just an evolution.

New version of MagiWOL changes import progress dialog a bit by adding time remaining text. As it always goes, it is precise full 0.1% of time.

There are some internal changes as response to crash reports but nothing too exciting to talk about.

Download and use.

MagiWOL 3.20

MagiWOL is IPv6 ready.

If you are on network that supports ONLY IPv6, you will really appreciate it since most of Wake-on-LAN programs are unable to work in that scenario.

If you are on dual stack (Windows Vista and newer) and behind your IPv4 home router, this change does not matter much now. Once your home IP pool gets exhausted, you will need it (there is only 4M addresses). Consider this update as future-proofing…

VHD Attach 3.10

First version of VHD Attach was written in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. I figured that since Windows 7 comes with it, it has WCF and it is new, there was no reason not to use it.

Just to prove me wrong there came ThinPC. It comes without any .NET Framework and only version that can be installed is 4.0. Yep, that is one that breaks backward compatibility with 3.0 and 3.5. Well, this version is now written in .NET Framework 2.0.

Those who need to create virtual disks had that feature in 3.0x but only for dynamic disks. With this version you can create fixed disks also.

Some GUI refreshing was in order but do not expect anything revolutionary. It is just an evolution, baby.

Download is available from within application or from these pages.

QText 3.00

Since there was quite a stable beta before, I will just quickly rehash what is new.

• If you have big number of files, you can finally sort them in folders.
• Corporate users will love that QText will leave no traces if it is not installed (check for zip version).
• File synchronization tools (e.g. SugarSync or DropBox) should work nicely with QText.

What are you waiting for? Download it.

MagiWOL 3.10

New version of my take on wake-up calls is up.

Most noticeable change here is having everything accessible over toolbar. In past some options were in hidden menu but that menu is gone now.

Other feature that is long overdue is upgrade functionality within application.

There was also some bug-fixing involved but that stuff is too boring.

Enjoy new version.

VHD Attach 3.02

This is very small update to VHD Attach. I removed application config files introduced with last version. Of course that means that both Thin PC users will hate me. For them, there is FAQ with separate download.

I do plan to sort things out in later version.

VHD Attach 3.00

Few last tweaks are completed and it is time for new version of VHD Attach.

Biggest change to this version is addition of dynamic virtual disks creation. In addition to this, application now recognizes stolen extensions and offers fix. Upgrades should also be a little bit easier since there is in-application check for new versions.

There is lot of small cosmetic adjustments. Like switching focus to Explorer upon attaching Bit Locker drive or drag&drop support in main window. And lets not forget that those who love analyzing virtual disks just got few more details about VHD.

Check it yourself.

QText 3.00 (Beta)

Those with big number of files in QText have reason to rejoice. This version brings support for multiple folders. Unfortunate “victim” here are hidden files that are no longer with us. Do not worry - they are still accessible - installation procedure will move them into separate folder.

Corporate users might find it useful to run QText without installation. Running without installation was possible in previous versions but it also meant that QText left it’s traces around system. Now QText will only write in sub-folder from which it was started and nowhere else.

While QText has no synchronization mechanism by itself, special care was done in this version to make it behave more friendly toward third-party software (e.g. SugarSync and DropBox). This should prevent crashes caused by someone else holding file open.

Saving is now done 2.5 seconds after your typing has stopped. If file cannot be written to because some other program is holding it (see DropBox) three retries will be done. In addition to that immediate save will be triggered by folder change and closing of program. Of course you can save manually at any time.

I hope that not many users will cry for menu which is gone. All functions are accessible both from toolbar and context menu so there was not much sense in keeping it. Keyboard heavy users can always useorto access toolbar and+to access tab-specific menu. As beforewill bring you context menu for text.

There are some changes to existing shortcuts (++and+) and few new ones. Do consult ReadMe.txt for full list. If you are wondering where key is, that is that key next tothat has picture of menu. And Microsoft called it. Go figure…

Lot of effort has gone into this version to make it as stable as possible so I would encourage all to update regardless of beta status.

Check it at beta page.