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MultiPatch has been updated to version 1.4. It now supports BPS patches, both applying and creating them. OS X 10.7 or higher is now required, but I've kept the downloads for the previous version available for anyone who can't use the latest version. I've also made some improvements to handling of filenames containing special characters. You can get the new version here.

I received a report that MP3Gain Express was not working for files that contained foreign characters in their names, and released a new version to fix that problem. A few days later, someone reported that the custom volume value was being ignored in 1.0.1, so I released 1.0.2 which fixes that. You can get it on the MP3Gain Express page.

All of the applications I've released for OS X appear to be working fine under Mountain Lion. However, they are not signed with a developer certificate, so if you've never used a specific application before the default security settings in Mountain Lion may prevent you from running it. You can get around this problem by Right-Clicking on the application and selecting "Open" the first time you try to run the application. At this time, I have no plans to pay Apple just so a user doesn't have to take this extra step. I may reconsider this in the future, as more users move onto Mountain Lion or what ever new OS versions the future brings.

I have also gotten a few feature requests for MP3Gain Express. Those have not been ignored, I am considering adding some things to a future release. I just wanted to get the bug fix out as soon as possible since it was a lot quicker to fix that than it would be to add new functionality. I have added automatic update functionality to 1.0.2, so future releases are easier to get. This should be useful in case I need to release other fixes quickly in the future.

As of February 2012, this website has been around for ten years. That means it's older than some of the news blogs that I read every day. I had started on a site redesign back in January that I planned to launch for this occassion, but I only worked on it once and haven't touched it since then. Whenever I decide to finish it, I think it's going to look nice. I've got nothing else to report right now, but I did post something new on the Fruit Remover blog a few weeks ago that might interest anyone who is wondering about the future of that project.

I've posted my own Mac OS X port of MP3Gain called "MP3Gain Express" in the projects section. I call it Express because it's missing features that I don't need. I ported this for my own use, (which isn't very often, since the last time I needed to use MP3Gain was back in 2007 when I was still using Windows regularly) but there's no reason I shouldn't release it for anyone else who wants to use it. Here is the project page for this one: MP3Gain Express.

In October 2011, version 1.1 of Fruit Remover was released with some minor changes and iOS 5 fixes.

You may recall that about 7 years ago, I released a demo version of Fruit Remover for Gamecube and promised the finished game "in a year or two." Well, the game is finished, but it's now an iPhone app. You can find it over at fruitremover.com. Just thought I'd post it here to show that I have been working on something over the last 2 years. If you want a lot of a stuff to read, you can also check out the blog on that site. I've posted quite a few articles about the progress of development on the game over the last 2 years.

I've released a quick update for Multi Patch to version 1.3. This version adds support for applying and creating BSDiff patches. I've also added a 64-bit version (which requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer) since creating BSDiff patches requires a lot of memory. As usual, you can find it at the MultiPatch page.