Ulysses 2.0 is running as a promo on MacUpdate — today and throughout the whole weekend. We are very existed about this three-day partnership!
Be sure to grab a copy here.
10/2: Ulysses on MacUpdate Promo
October 2nd, 200909/19: Forums down [update: not anymore]
September 19th, 2009As some of may have noticed, the forums are currently down. We don’t know what happened, but it might have to do with us migrating some internal stuff to a new server. Or maybe it’s the weather.
EIther way, thank god it’s saturday, haha, so we’ll be back up and running in no time sometime later this weekend. I guess. Dunno, because I don’t even know what happened.
Stay with us.
UPDATE: Forums are back.
09/16: Semantic Editing on the iPhone
September 16th, 2009
The above is a screenshot of a recent build of Ulysses Mobile. The semantic editing depicted here works just as it does in the desktop version — paragraphs get colored automatically based on a prefix.
Problem: It’s a hack. So take it as a proof-of-concept.
We’re quite exited, however.
(it works! it works!)
09/15: Ulysses 2.0.2 fixes Snow Leopard issues
September 15th, 2009We have just released Ulysses 2.0.2 via the internal updater Sparkle. This update fixes a couple of smaller issues and bugs, many of them caused by Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. We are also adding two more languages to Ulysses: Spanish and Norwegian — thanks to Victor M. Solano and Tellef Kvifte!
To get a detailed list of all changes, see the version history. You may directly download the new versions from here:
Update: I forgot to mention that this update also finally fixes the registration problems under Mac OS 10.4 Tiger.
09/4: The Case of the Missing Serial Numbers (or Screw the Gmail Spam Filter)
September 4th, 2009We’re currently experiencing a pretty hefty problem: A lot of customers are contacting us via email, saying they’re still waiting for the registration info to show up in their mailboxes.
Turns out 99% of them are using gmail.com — which, plain and simple, is treating our registration email as spam.
Now, I find this rather curious, and to be honest, I’m angry as hell, but before I let my temper run amok, I’ll take a deep breath and just leave it at this. For now. It’s pretty obvious that Google have messed up their spam filter for good; just do a… haha… google search on gmail filtering legit mail, and you know which provider NOT to use for day-to-day correspondence.
I bet their confirmation mails still get through, but whatever.
Sooooooooo, if you’re wondering why you haven’t heard from us regarding your registration: Check your spam filter and go blame Google. You should do this more often anyway. Blaming Google, that is.
08/14: Threaded Comments
August 14th, 2009I just activated threaded comments, three levels deep. Not that we need it right now, he, but as soon as people are replying to certain comments, it’s nice to have the feature activated.
So… not much to see here, please move along.
And come back again. :)
08/7: Creating Ulysses Mobile
August 7th, 2009
When I started work on Ulysses Mobile, I wanted to create a stand-alone writing application for the iPhone/iPod touch. It may have had basic compatibility features with its bigger desktop brother, but I didn’t think of a 1:1 port of Ulysses 2.0 to the small screen.
I wanted to create a writing application tailored to the iPhone, and not just an iPhone conversion of a desktop app.
Of course, I also thought it couldn’t be done anyway. Filters, multiple notes, projects, bookmarks, full-fledged semantic editing with markers and stuff — impossible. Add syncing to the mix alongside Ulysses’ (desktop) system of keeping open and saved versions of each document, and you have an untamable beast of complexity; and uselessness.
See, while I strongly believe people want to write larger texts on the iPhone, I also believe nobody wants to wade through 20 different screens just to annotate a certain part of a chapter on his ride home.
07/17: Ulysses 2.0.1 and new versioning scheme
July 17th, 2009Hey,
this is just a quick notifier that we just released Ulysses 2.0.1 into the wild. This is a bug fix version only and resolved some childhood illnesses of both Ulysses applications. It’s available through the internal updater.
New with this update is also our new versioning schema: From now on we will release 0.0.x releases only for bug fixes and minor stuff. All new features that are bigger than “small” will come along 0.x releases. This basically is to signalize the progression of features and not getting stuck in inappropriate numbers :)
Happy updating!
Max
07/13: 2.0 done and I am finished…
July 13th, 2009Well, here we are. Ulysses 2.0 is finally out, and apart from a few early hickups with the store, everything seems to go rather smoothly. This may change, of course, once everybody comes rushing in, but so be it. We’re prepared. ;)
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybdy involved with this rather stupid idea of taking a small software company and turning it around 180 degrees. Max and I had this vague concept, and while it took us far too long to make it happen, we’re very happy with where the Soulmen are today and glad everything worked out just the way it currently does.
Reboot.
Check.
07/11: We are close…
July 11th, 2009… just wanted to share the status quo here:
You might notice that the disk image icon is still missing.
This is how close we are :)
