I finally have been able to restart the MacZone project.

You might be wondering what the MacZone project is. MacZone is an application I started developing about 3 years ago, before creating Startrail. MacZone is only a temporary name, of course, and the final one will be different. I was forced to stop developing it by various events in my life, but I finally managed to restart its development. Unfortunately, due to my actual full day job, I don't have much time to devote to it, but I'm getting up very early in the morning, so it is progressing at a slow but steady pace. Hopefully soon I will be able to get a new MacBook Pro (I'm waiting for Apple to upgrade it, which should happen in these days, according to rumors), so I will be able to speed up the development working during  weekends (when I have to go back home) and my train travels.

Functionally speaking the development is at 80%, but the code needs to be refactored almost entirely due to changes in the user interface, in the OS X technologies and in my knowledge of the Cocoa Framework. So we can consider the app development at about 50%.

You probably are still wondering what exactly MacZone will be. I'm sorry, but at this time I just can't tell you what it is. You will have to wait. I will give more informations on this topic later.

I'm going on vacation till August 25th and I will not be able to access my mailboxes. If you experience any problem with the payment system, please be patient, I will address it as soon as I come back. Thank you very much.

Good Holidays!

Here we are. The version 2.0 of Startrail has been finally released. There are a lot new features, as you can see in the presentation page and in the release notes.

Luckily Apple has just fixed the bug that affected Spaces and Quartz Composer, so Startrail now seems to work perfectly on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3. If you still experience some problems, please let me know.

Startrail is now a sharware application (sort of), but you can still use it without a license. The only limitation is that it will quit after half an hour and you will have to restart it. The payment process is handled by PayPal. If you experience any kind of problem, please contact us.

As always, suggestions are really appreciated. Enjoy the new version!