We have just posted an update to RAGE Macintosh Explorer. This free update to registered users is now a Universal Binary so it runs really fast on your Intel based Macs. Plus we’ve added a few more features including grouping folders together when sorting files, all new toolbar icons, and faster file browsing.
Get the free update on the RAGE Macintosh Explorer download page.
Our second Universal Binary application, RAGE ButtonDesign has just been released. Now you can run it natively on your Intel based Mac as a Universal Binary.
We are also offering a 45% one-day-discount on new purchases through the Mac Update Promo web site. Purchase RAGE ButtonDesign for just $10.95 USD. Start creating professional looking buttons at a fraction of the regular $19.95 USD price.
Now with Google Sitemaps web site developers can see who is linking to each page on their web site. Google has just added new functionality to their webmaster tools section that allows web site owners to see who is linking back to each individual page. Unlike using the ‘link:’ command in a Google Search, the webmaster tools page gives you many more results.
If you have already created your sitemap with RAGE Google Sitemap Automator just log into your sitemaps account and you should be able to see all this data. Make sure you have correctly verified your web site first. If not, just download RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and generate your sitemap file.
This is a great way to keep track of who is talking about your web site.
Yesterday night I arrived back home from Macworld in San Francisco. I think it was a great show and definitely well attended. There are two things that I did find odd however. One is that Steve Jobs did not make any announcements regarding the Mac. Not even a demonstration of Leopard. Aren’t these the people who will be buying Leopard in a few short months? I was surprised that there were no computer updates, software announcements (iLife 07?), or a Leopard preview. This was probably because Steve wanted to emphasis the fact that Apple is no longer just a Computer company. But still, I think a Leopard preview should be the least that is expected at Macworld. This isn’t Appleworld:-)
The second thing that really surprised me was how many companies were there to promote iPod accessories, specifically iPod cases. There were so many companies promoting all these iPod cases, many promoting virtually the same iPod case, just in a slightly different color. Then you had a wide variety of iPod speakers. These guys must be selling their stuff because Macworld is not cheap. If they are then good for them. However, I think for the good of the Mac platform and the Mac community there needs to be a rise in the number of software (specifically shareware or small software companies), who attend to show off their new Mac products. There are small pavilions that small software companies are able to purchase for a relatively cheap amount, but by far the most prevalent products announced and being promoted at Macworld were iPod related. I would personally like to see Macworld take the initiative to support small software developers by recognizing the impact small developers have on the Mac community. They should guarantee a certain number of small software vendors and reduce the price for ADC pavilions to make them more accessible to emerging Mac developers. Although there were a lot of small software companies exhibiting, in relation to iPod related products, they were well out-shined.
Other than that, I think the Macworld Expo was a great success and a great resource for Mac enthusiasts. Even more importantly, next year it will be a great resource for RAGE enthusiasts. We have already booked our booth and will be there to show off some new products we have been working on and, more importantly, meet face to face with our customers. We will post more details as the event gets closer, but we are real excited here for next year. For now, mark down January 14-18, 2008 in your iCal calendar!
In version 1.5 of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator there is a small problem which will display a bug report message on launch if you create FTP bookmarks without entering a default path. This has been fixed for the next free update which is due out very soon.
If you would like to try the latest beta version, just sign up at the URL below.
Well we’ve finally done it. We have released our first Universal Application.
Although it did take us a while it doesn’t mean that this is what you can expect from all of our other applications. We already have RAGE ButtonDesign and RAGE Macintosh Explorer running natively on Intel Macs here. We just don’t want to release an update only offering native Intel compatibility.
In fact you can sign up to our beta program at the URL below and start testing it for yourself. Just create your login and you can begin testing;
http://www.trybeta.com/home/
We hope to get an update to RAGE Macintosh Explorer out before the holiday season. Not only will it be a Universal Binary, but we have also added some nice new features and fixed some annoying bugs.
Great news today from the top search engine giants. According to TechCrunch Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have announced an agreement on the sitemaps protocol created by Google.
It’s great to hear that these three competitors have worked together for the benefit of Internet users. This will greatly enhance the ability of web developers to let all major search engines know which of their web site’s pages are important and how often they are updated. I hope this leads to more relevant results from these search engines based on the information provided by web site owners.
It is also likely the sitemap protocol will be expanded to add more features and give more control to web site owners over what kind of information the search engines store about each web site.
What does this mean for RAGE Google Sitemap Automator users? Your sitemaps will now be recognized by Yahoo and Microsoft in addition to Google. Further, any search engine can decide to support sitemaps which means your sitemap has just become that much more important for your search engine ranking strategy.
If you have already created your sitemap in RAGE Google Sitemap Automator you do not have to change a thing. Your sitemaps will already be compatible with Yahoo and Microsoft’s search engine.
We will be adding features to make it much easier to submit your sitemaps to Yahoo and Microsoft. We will also obviously adjust the name once these features are added to better reflect the programs new features.
More information on the changes can be found at sitemaps.org.
We will be posting more details as they become available. A significant update to RAGE Google Sitemap Automator will be released very soon. We have added some great new features that will make creating and uploading your sitemaps much easier. We are just fine tuning its performance for Intel computers.
Its been a while since my last post on this blog. We have had some significant updates including updates to RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and an entirely new product, RAGE ButtonDesign.
We have been working really hard on creating Universal Binaries of all of our software. We now have RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and RAGE Macintosh Explorer working as Universal Binaries. We still have a few minor issues we are working on but you can expect all of our products to be Universal Binary applications soon.
Thank you for your patients while we work out these issues. You can be rest assured that we will be continually making improvements to our products to make sure they run on the latest versions of Mac OS X.
A new version of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator is out. Its got a new parsing engine which can find more links on your page such as those in image maps, frames and meta redirect pages. If you were getting errors saying that no web pages could be found, this update should help a lot.
It also allows you to prevent certain pages from being scanned for links such as images. Images can still be added but they will not be downloaded or scanned for links.
Check it out here;
http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html
We’ve got some really great product updates coming out real soon. We also have a new product which is almost ready for release.
Without saying to much, the new product is for web developers, and as far as I can tell, the only one of its kind that does what it does…whatever that may be…
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