Development / Change Log

The current public Mac App Store release is 1.0, the current non MAS release is 1.1.

1.1.1 In development

New Features

• Advanced option for the default file search to add any file types you like. Still recommend using the 'open' and 'find' keywords (or prefix a search with [spacebar] to enter file search mode)
• Code sign Alfred in preparation for future versions of OS X
• When using 'email' keyword, option to choose to open Contact View if there is more than one email address, otherwise email the primary address

Improvements

• Ability to switch first name and last name in contact viewer for better localisation
• More exact matching for 'Text Files' in the default results, matching plain text and rtf. This now correctly excludes irrelevant text based items such as .ics
• Match the 'Open With / Copy To / Move To' search scope to the File Search scope for better predictability
• Add XCode's new Applications location to the default file search

Bug Fixes

• Fix Phone and Email advanced address book settings for OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
• Use correct 'mute' AppleScript when using the Alfred iTunes Mute Global Hotkey
• Make sure Address Book icon shows correctly in future versions of OS X

1.1 13th Feb 2012

Note: This release is only available from our website as it is almost entirely Powerpack features.

New Features

• Assign custom actions and extensions to Contact Viewer metadata types
  
• Configurable advanced 'Show Alfred' global hotkey with ability to bring selected text into Alfred
  
• Ability to set a filter's default action to an extension instead of just opening it. Allows for improved workflow for selecting a particular file and actioning it with a custom action
  
• Ability to 'replace' a current extension of the same name when importing - allows for easier upgrading of extensions
• Renaming of hotkeys is now possible by right clicking (or double clicking) on the hotkey in the list
• Added a 'help' keyword which gives quick access to search Alfred's help site
• Intelligent type matching with spell / define keywords. If you start spelling with a capital letter, ensure this is carried through to all spelling suggestions
• Drag reordering URLs in Alfred's URL global hotkeys prefs to set tab (or window) order in your default browser
• Drag reorder Applications / Files in Alfred's File Group extension prefs to set launch order

Improvements

• Wildcarding in the clipboard history view with * for more flexible searching through history
• Non anchored Name search for snippets in the clipboard viewer (for more 'interesting' matching)
• The iTunes Mute keyword now mutes iTunes instead of setting volume to 0. This allows toggling of mute by typing mute again. Automatically un-mutes on playing from mini player.
• Turn off iTunes Mini Player DJ mode when selecting a random album to prevent confusion
• Workflow extension parameters now have the option to be Required / Optional / None, allowing for keyword to be linked directly to workflow with no extension
• De-duplicate URLS which are in history and are typed as new so you don't see URLs twice (once typed and once from history)
• Place cursor position to the right of the path when using a global hotkey to open a file path in Alfred's file system navigation
• Improved URL matching for localhost and sites which use ports (e.g. localhost:8888)
• Ignore certain schemes from URL recognition e.g. site: kind: as these work better on fallback / finder based searches
• Improve some of the help subtext throughout the preferences for clarity
• Remove all spaces from query for maths calculation as they are unnecessary. Also allows for space delimiting on large numbers for clarity
• Remove legacy code from Alfred, doing a nice big tidy up on the way for improved efficiency
• Add a gap in the Features > Default Result prefs between Essential and Extras
• Improved contact card notes field (no longer truncates to the right for multiple lines)
• Improvements to iTerm2 focusing after 'open terminal here' and terminal commands
• More useful message on invalid licenses
• Allow for valid spaces in URL recognition
• Add the additional items which are now synced to the help text in the syncing prefs

Bug Fixes

• Prevent the confirmation dialog from showing when deleting from views in Alfred's preferences when no rows are selected
• Defend against potentially dodgy iTunes metadata, especially with Match
• Use the correct Amazon online store when Ireland is selected as locale
• Make sure the application name is correctly shown in the Global Hotkeys list when dragging a new application in
• When using the Random Album function outside of the iTunes Mini Player, reload the library if needed instead of doing nothing
• Change spelling to Luxembourg in locales (tsk tsk @vero)
• Fix wording for AppleScript extension subtext (was accidentally the same as shell script)
• Correctly encode URLs typed into Alfred which contain accented characters
• Fix keypad enter key to work in contacts viewer
• Make default Facebook search UTF-8
• Clear search context when changing query prefix (fixes e.g. exiting contact viewer, then prefixing name with google)
• Trim the 'custom home folder location' before use as trailing newlines gave strange behaviour
• Ensure that contacts are still opened in the contact viewer with the new filter action customisation

1.0 29th Nov 2011

Global Hotkeys

• Significant improvements to Powerpack Global Hotkeys:
• Assign hotkey to Application and optionally toggle show/hide with assigned hotkey
• Assign hotkeys to your extensions and optionally pass a parameter
• Assign hotkeys to Alfred's built in system commands such as Sleep, Empty Trash etc
• Assign hotkeys to Alfred's iTunes functions such as Random Album, next, previous, iTunes volume
• Assign hotkeys to groups of URLs to show all your favourite sites in a single keypress
• Assign a hotkey to a folder to browse in Finder or directly within Alfred's filesystem navigation
• Global Hotkey Syncing between your macs
• Relative ~ paths for hotkeys linked to files for better syncing
  

New Features

• New Payment process: We now accept CC payments & PayPal directly: alfredapp.com/purchase
• Remember recently typed URLs for subsequent recall / use. New preferences section to configure this:
  
• cmd+c now copies information for the current result in Alfred's default results (e.g. file path or URL)
• Improvements to snippets preferences allowing for searching and sorting for editing:
  

Improvements

• Improved preferences, consistency and performance
• Snippets can now be used when the Clipboard History is disabled
• Show the clipboard history source icon next to the clipboard history icon for better context
  
• Show a nice generic icon to represent web links rather than the Safari document icon
• More available custom fallback searches (6 instead of 3)
• Allow wildcarding in iTunes search and also improve search accuracy
• Flatten diacritics in iTunes search for more predictable matching
• Better distinction between Album and Artist icons in iTunes mini player
• Tickbox to enable/disable individual extensions
• Improved / less imposing look to the "Alfred should have found something" fallback result:
  
• Better URL handling and recognition (can now accept things like messages://)
• Nicknames now accepted in Alfred's 'Email to' action
• Drop folders directly into Alfred's search scope list
• Increase the total storage time for clipboard history to 3 months
• Allow for + for space encodings in custom searches to support more site searches
• Improve accuracy when using double tap hotkeys, ensuring that shift doesn't interfere
• If {query} is used in a custom search's title, no longer automatically appending {query}
• Alfred can now eject all items in /Volumes (set this in the preferences)
  
• Improve the 'play' keyword to also look at file name as well as track name
• Allow extension parameters to be marked as 'optional' as well as 'required' for more flexiblility
• Global [advanced] option to mark AppleScripts as 'run' instead of 'open' (can still open using cmd+o)
• Update to newer Growl framework
• Remove and update deprecated code to make Alfred more future proof
• Make the delete/backspace key work for deleting extensions for consistency

Bug Fixes

• Improve defence against odd unicode character entry into Alfred search box
• Run "empty trash" command in the background to prevent blocking Alfred with very many trash items
• Fix subtext for iCloud synced contacts for correctly showing in Alfred
• Ensure that ~ correctly resolves to the home folder in the actions views
• Make the numpad "enter" key work the same as the "return" key
• Better handling of symbolic linked folders and files in Alfred's file system navigation
• iTunes keywords now removed from the default results when disabled in prefs
• Remove trailing slash from Applications when using the Finder Selection hotkey
• Remove defunct § key from launching the iTunes mini player (legacy)
• When importing a new extension, correctly scroll to the new extension in the list
• Correctly launch contact web addresses when they are missing the http://
• Work around Lion bug where isCaseInsensitiveLike was failing for certain strings causing a hang
• No longer miss off the first letter of an email address if setting the email keyword to @
• Stop custom search icon from being lost when adding a second custom search with identical URL
• Fix help text on reindexing shell script, changing 'any key' to 'enter' for continue

Changes for 1.0b (development build 162)

• Show the Alfred icon in clipboard history for items copied from Alfred (such as spellings and calculations)
• Keep the correct icon for a clipboard icon when pasting from the clipboard history
• Update the Google Docs web search URL so that it doesn't show the old style theme
• Fix Alfred's default window position quirks when using a second screen with Alfred's preferences showing
• When running .scpt files with the 'MS Office' experimental option selected, ensure Alfred correctly hides
• Fix hotkey migration so that it doesn't happen more than once on machines which are already syncing
• Word based matching for the 'quit' keyword, e.g. 'quit chrome' will now quit Google Chrome
• Fix the 'ejectall' noise problems including non /Volumes/ items
• Add a nicer intro screen on the Global Hotkeys to match the Extensions prefs better
• Correctly show icon for relative ~/ files and apps in Global Hotkey prefs
• Recognise .local as a valid URL when using Alfred to open URLs

Changes for 1.0b (development build 165-7)

• Improved iTerm2 behaviour in Lion
• Allow for wildcard based filtering in the File System Navigation:
  
• Recognise 'localhost' as a valid URL when typed into Alfred
• Pre-compile regular expressions to improve performance
• Added an alfredapp: URL scheme for faster access to activating the Powerpack
• Improved Powerpack registration experience and mask code until required
• Added defensive code for rare situations where the metadata query may be invalid / null
• Add custom Global Hotkeys usage to Alfred's usage counter
• Improved Terminal behaviour in Lion with 'restore' mode activated

Changes for 1.0 (development build 168)

• Removed URL history from syncing due to conflicts
• Added ! as a possible prefix for shell integration for vi users
• Fix Terminal.app integration when in restore mode (thanks @jdfwarrior)
• Tidy up code and do shortest path analysis / leaks detection

0.9.10 23 August 2011

A quick update on top of the huge 0.9.9 release to add a number of small fixes affecting a few users. Also to test my new build scripts!

• Make Alfred more resistant to potential unexpected problems caused by shell extensions
• Better identification of contacts which can be viewed in the Alfred contact viewer
• Fix incorrect subtext for non PP / MAS contacts in Alfred's results
• Fix fallback searches from showing '{query}' in the prefs, correctly show '...'
• Add Intel only Growl library to standardise for website / app store compliant
• Deferred pasting with 'snip' keyword to keep consistency with clipboard navigator
• Register Alfred's defaults setting earlier in initialisation for robustness
• Remove froogle search due to complications (users can add a custom search for this instead)
• Change 'Search Google Mail' web search to work with new style gmail URLs
• Setup Lion build server and auto build / release scripts
• Email keyword with an additional space stops keyword from working
• Add Israel to selectable Locales

0.9.9 31 July 2011

Extend Alfred!

Create your own extensions for Alfred:

• Command Line Scripts (with Growl output)
• AppleScripts
• Automator Workflows
• Advanced Search Filters
• Files and file groups

This is a huge new part of Alfred. Expect more information, documentation and improvements over the coming weeks and months :)

Improvements

• Add Growl Support
• Add Global Hotkey usage to statistics graph
• Improve Knowledge Sorting to better account for extensions [and web searches]
• Add 'get info' action for files
• Add ` (backwards quote) as an option for Shell escaping
• Multiline Editor for Terminal commands
• Eject improvements including growl notification
• Rewrite syncing to make a little more intelligent + watch app support when not syncing
• Drill into Application bundles when using the folder nav keys in FS Nav
• Make emailing attachments work with Sparrow Lite.app
• Add /Applications to default copy/move to paths for easy selection
• Differentiate between Address Book contacts and contact metadata files in Alfred's results
• Add disabling of fn/ctrl to actions in the keyboard tweaking options
• Make Delete / Backspace key remove rows in preference tables
• Move Knowledge.alfdb from Caches back to App Support for safety
• Ability to use Open Meta tags when creating search filters & extensions

Bugs

• Fix AppleScript for sending email attachments in latest Mail.app
• Prevent obscure crash when using iTunes controls in main Alfred results
• Prevent terminal from opening twice bug when using "Open Terminal Here" action
• Remove the update of the 'last used' flag in the OS X metadata
• Fix aspect ratio on icons dragged in for custom searches, extensions etc
• Fix bug which prevented alt+backspace being used as hotkey
• Make sure that global hotkeys are correctly unregistered when removing

Changes for 0.9.9 Dev 2 (build 142)

• General bug fixes and improvements
• Add back the Lion Compatibility button
• Improved more attractive branded Powerpack tab
• Match 'action' extensions by title, not name
• Contact's Note field now shown in Contact Card Viewer (switchable in prefs)
• Prevent Alfred from crashing with two {query} strings in an extension title
• Only show growl eject notification if there isn't an eject error
• Allow for relative workflows in specific extensions folder (for easier exporting)
• Show nice visible growl icon on Script Extensions which use Growl (links to growl.info)
• Correctly output UTF8 from scripts to Growl
• More {query} escaping options for shell scripts
• Ctrl N/P bindings in Address Book contact card
• Offer some default options for the file filter extension metadata fields when clicking [+]
• Small fixes for future iTunes compatibility

Changes for 0.9.9 Dev 3 (build 145)

• New theme (for free and powerpack users) suited to Lion
• Work around for /Applications not being found with search scope
• Fix problem where snippets were sometimes not saved properly when edited
• Fix at the Spell / Define issues for Lion (incorrect definition, missing words)
• Improve Spell / Define accuracy for exact matching [and missing] words
• Improvements to the knowledge / results sorting
• Prevent the backspace (delete row) event from being incorrectly consumed in the preferences
• Custom file type for extensions (.alfredextension) for exporting and easy double click import of extensions
• Update framework to allow some results to truncate subtext on the tail e.g. spell / define
• Add note on spelling prefs to say 'prefs need to be closed for paste to work'
• When opening a contact in alfred, massage the last used metadata so it's up the top
• Expand ~/ in the Filter Extensions search scope box for easier creation and better sharable filters
• When a user deactivates a powerpack, make sure to unsync and copy settings back to prevent loss
• Make sure .scpt files run (rather than open) when setting up a custom filter for AppleScripts
• Fix the spacing of the Powerpack icon in the features outline view
• Show warning if invalid file is dropped onto the extensions prefs (zip or folder)
• Update the 'open with...' app list to ignore alfred:ignore files
• Add link near 'Download Alfred' on website to help users activate powerpack
• Correctly escape spaces in Custom Search names with %20 (just URL encode whole thing) reported in email by Nathaniel Irons
• Allow snippets to be deleted using the backspace key in the list (for consistency)
• Change twitter search to the more modern http://twitter.com/#!/search/{query}
• Add help button to extensions intro page

0.9.1 - Lion Compatibility Release 24th June 2011

This is a minor update to prepare for OS X 10.7 Lion. Other improvements include...

• Add Lion info to About Tab
• App Caching performance improvements
• Fix quirks relating to result noise when using Calculator
• Prevent opening 2 terminals in Terminal.app for file actions
• A number of other minor fixes

0.9 11th May 2011

Global Hotkeys [Powerpack]

• Set global shortcuts for your favourite apps, files and scripts
• Option to either open or run AppleScript shortcuts
• AppleScripts run as separate process for non blocking and stability

Custom Terminal Commands + Improvements [Powerpack]

• Add your own custom terminal commands to be able to run scripts with keywords and arguments
• Run your commands in Terminal or silently behind the scenes
• Add custom shell actions to Alfred's actions panel (path passed as argument)
• Add your own icons to make your commands look like fully native Alfred commands
• Prevent Alfred from opening two Terminal.app windows when running terminal commands from Alfred

Preference Syncing [Powerpack]

• Sync certain preferences between Macs using the sync drive of your choosing (Dropbox, iDisk)
• Syncs Snippets, Scripts, Custom Sites, Themes

iTunes Mini Player Improvements [Powerpack]

• iTunes DJ Support - best way to randomise your iTunes library (toggle in prefs)
• Option to exclude TV Shows and Movies in iTunes Mini Player [exclude by default]
• Option to remove the iTunes Store link from the bottom of the mini player (aesthetic reasons only)
• Take Album Artist into consideration when playing all songs by an artist
• Add reindex button to iTunes preferences to supplement the mini player reindex methods
• Remove gradient and correctly constrain title text (works better with semi transparent themes)
• Prevent iTunes reindexing happening concurrently with multiple cmd+r
• Show track number for mini player
• make cmd-dn / cmd-up work in itunes mini player
• Index playlists from XML so they are now available in the standard iTunes Mini Player search (toggle in prefs)
• New icons for Folder and Genius playlists
• Tidy up and remove unused iTunes AppleScript
• User definable keywords (pause / next / prev) for controlling iTunes in both Mini Player and Core
• Fix Next/Prev actions to start playing if currently paused
• Fix situation where track name didn't display in mini player header for certain types
• Add transport controls (play / pause etc... in main window too).
• Properly index playlists (just by name so they are in default search, including playlists inside of playlists)

Overhaul Preferences

• Visual improvements to give more polished feel
• Usability improvements in almost every single preference panel
• Wider prefs window by default (from 550 to 600 with vertical split at 180)
• Rename 'About' to 'Alfred' as it now contains more stuff
• Move 'Usage' preferences into new 'About' preferences to prevent clutter
• Move 'Updates' prefs from General to About prefs to make it more obvious
• Increase width of Features tab by 50px to match content width of other prefs
• Remove hanky from Alfred hat in About prefs to standardise branding
• New background image (better resolution) in about prefs tab
• Rename references of experimental in resources and code to advanced
• Remove the 'Local' group from prefs and merge into 'Basic' group
• Make the features tree collapse properly (so that Lion works better) and items re-select correctly
• Standardise the use of the full stop in descriptions (use full stops)

Other New Features & Improvements

• Drag files out of Alfred into other apps [PP]
• Update 'Custom Sites' editor view and allow for custom images
• Add the ability to hide, quit, force quit currently running applications
• Add iTunes and Clipboard to usage graph [PP]
• increase size of text area for filenames while browsing the file system [PP]
• Update to latest version of FMDB by @ccgus
• Truncation and general UI improvements around text display
• User definable home folder, default to ~/ [PP]
• User definable tab key (auto-complete or action) [PP]
• Make AppleScripts run with osascript rather than NSAppleScript
• Stop pre-compiling applescripts and compile / cache on the fly on users' machines
• Add email attachment support for Outlook (thanks @jdfwarrior) [PP]

Bug Fixes

• Add logging into the email client detection to help debug rare situations where mail client is not found
• Reorganise first responder on initial activation to prevent possible missing events
• Fix fuzzy matching interfering with things like terminal by ignoring anchored chars e.g. >
• When main results subtext paths are too long, truncate in the middle so you can see the filename
• Put postcode above country in Alfred's Contact Card view
• Prevent Alfred from showing unnecessary items with eject keyword such as /home and /net
• Make the app cache work more gracefully on non english locales when searching for localised apps in english
• Stop icons from flicking in fs nav / preview by showing the default icons first (like folder)
• Treat script bundles as scripts when searching and run applescripts independently (non blocking) to Alfred
• set level of Alfred window to be above things like help windows etc

Changes for 0.9 dev [build 116]

• Improved memory management for clipboard history - prevent ballooning when storing lots of extra large clipboard items [PP]
• Correctly process low level Esc event, now allows Esc based hotkeys
• Run system commands off of event thread to prevent blocking in some situations (e.g. don't block when emptying trash)
• Prevent Global Hotkeys weird behaviour when leaving hotkey blank or clearing hotkey then clicking Save [PP]
• When using <- and -> tweaks, improve the behaviour in the core window allowing for cursor movement [PP]
• Option to escape query string with backslashes in shell shortcuts editor [PP]
• Add Slovenia and South Africa locales and fix a update a few broken things current locales
• Fix small transparency issue in clipboard history viewer preview panel [PP]
• Tidy up Application Support folder, moving relevant items to Cache folder
• Esc key now correctly closes sheets in preferences
• Fix a number of general spelling and grammatical errors
• Separate Clipboard History and Snippet databases for better performance / syncing [PP]
• Add 'International' location to the "Where are you" general setting, set by default
• Only re-save custom themes when there is a change to make syncing more efficient

Changes for 0.9 pre-release [build 120]

• Fix Low level results sorting / re-selection bug which could cause crashes in very rare situations
• Rewrite quit/force/hide code to be more efficient and robust
• Move all silent shell commands into separate object to allow for releasing of blocking parent (more efficient)
• Fall back to NSAppleScript if script compiling / caching of scripts fails for some reason
• Prevent Alfred from showing off screen in some circumstances (e.g. screen resolution changes)
• Show < and > characters in iTunes playlists instead of encoded characters [PP]

Changes for 0.9 pre-release [build 122]

• Make the 'reload' keyword also reload custom scripts as well as the application cache
• Delete individual snippets by (more reliable / faster) id rather than matching text [PP]
• Add 'some versions of Microsoft Outlook' to the email support panel [PP]
• Disable 'Application' based system commands [quit/force quit/hide] for 10.5 users as these do not work
• Create different appcast URL for 10.5 Sparkle updates in prep for code branch
• Add toggle button (far right of search field) for iTunes DJ in mini player [PP]
• Show error message when iTunes DJ is not available [PP]
• Make Genres, Artists, Albums and Playlist top level nodes show in mini player search results when query matches for consistency [PP]
• If activated, make the right arrow tweaking work in iTunes view for consistency [PP]
• Add missing help links in the features prefs (currently resolve to 404 until 0.9 is released)
• Make script and itunes keywords case insensitive when searching
• Add Venezuela to locales

Changes for 0.9 general release [build 123]

• Option to escape quotes in custom shell commands, enabled by default [PP]
• Final back-fixes to make 10.5 build work more smoothly

0.8.2 27th Feb 2011

New Features

• Address Book Integration [initial work] - ability to view contacts in Alfred (PP)
• Import and Export of Alfred Themes (PP)
• The ability to search within files using the 'in' keyword - configurable from the file prefs
• Change 'find' and 'open' behaviour to allow scrolling past the max displayed results (configurable in the preferences between 20 and 40)
• Add 'scrollbar' style indicator to show more rows available (hideable in prefs). This is for all views with more results e.g. find/open keywords, iTunes mini player, file system navigation
• Add custom url scheme for automatically adding custom searches to Alfred
• Ability to copy the custom search alfredapp url to the clipboard from the custom search prefs
• Add default website locales for India, China, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Taiwan, Iceland
• Add Amazon.it to Italian web locale
• Option to make 'email' keyword launch gmail with an email for that contact (PP)
• Ability to change Selected Text / Subtext colour in theming (PP)
• Option for iTunes mini player to only play longer albums when selecting random features (5 or more songs, PP)

Improvements

• Make cmd+o open folders in Finder when in File System Navigation. Also, add option to default to return opening folders in Finder (PP)
• Add custom searches to the selectable fallback search lists (PP)
• Sending files as attachments through Sparrow mail is now supported (PP)
• Confirm when user presses the [-] button on the colour theme, before theme is deleted (PP)
• Truncate results and paths centrally (using ellipses) instead of fading out, meaning you can better see the filename for long paths. This also means the fade doesn't ruin transparent based themes in the Powerpack
• Hide contacts with no email address with 'email' keyword + match by email too in query (PP)
• Confirmation on pressing 'reset' button for search scope
• Add page up/down keys (or fn+up/down on small keyboards) to all views with more than visible results available
• Add Mouse Scroll wheel / Track Pad scrolling of results
• Improve file finding to not wildcard word anchored search queries
• Take Album Artist into account when parsing iTunes XML to keep correct grouping album grouping by artist (PP)
• Force match http:// and https:// as URLs regardless of what follows. Also add afp:// to recognised URLs
• Add 'reload' keyword to reload the application cache
• Rework the preferences window to make more resilient to a very rare crash and fix for keyboard navigation

Bug Fixes

• Add .info as understood domain names for URL recognition
• Make Application Cache respect alfred:ignore spotlight comment
• Fix quirk where Alfred was not showing Finder.app until the application cache was reloaded
• When "remember your query" is used, Run in Terminal doesn't go away at next query
• Respect alternative name (internationalised name) when dynamically reloading the application cache
• Only show default 'email' searcher when email address entered (to prevent visual quirking)
• Prevent the google docs search from redirecting back to #all or #home and not showing a search result (thanks @hjertnes)
• Substitute | (pipe) with %7C in custom searches as this is a non standard character - makes it easier adding google translate custom queries
• Remove gradient fading which ruins transparent themes. Make theming work better with non RGB selected colours.
• Confirm reindexing before performing the command (to prevent terminal hang on sudo command)
• Fix broken help button link to fallback search help page
• Fix some of the F keys not functioning correctly as hotkeys
• Fall back to file name for search results if kMDItemDisplayName metadata is missing (prevents blank being shown on results)
• Fix unusual crash in iTunes mini player when 'Hide Mini Player after selecting song' is selected
• Fix some spelling and grammar errors in the preferences
• Fix in actions when typing "open with..." as soon as there's a space, the action disappears
• Trim whitespace and newlines from license code to prevent invalid rejection
• Update Google web searches to use UTF8 to fix some diacritics not being encoded properly

Changes for dev 2 build

• Significantly improved colour scheme editor with live preview (PP)
• Make the scrollbar colour editable in the themes editor (PP)
• Make ` selectable for the home folder preferences key in file system navigation (PP)
• Fix word based matching for actions i.e. being able to type finder to match 'open in finder' (PP)
• Change Wolfram Alpha to UTF8 as certain characters were not being encoded properly
• Make cmd+o work in core results view for consistency
• Add hungary & Luxemburg as web locales

Changes for dev 3 build

• Allow copying of contact details (plus emailing / visit web address) from an Address Book contact result (PP)
• Make it much more obvious which colour you are about to edit / are editing in the Theme editor (PP)
• Custom alfredapp:// URL for installing themes, copyable from the themes prefs to share on websites (PP)
• Make 'Open Terminal Here' action work with files too [open folder of selected file in terminal] (PP)
• Option to 'opt out' of home folder being included in default search scope
• Make cursor more visible on all themes by making it the same colour as the search text

Changes for pre-release

• Better represent transparency in the theme editor + make scrollbars and dividers drawn source over (PP)
• Use cmd+c on selected contact item in Address Book itegration to copy it to the clipboard, update text at bottom of window to reflect this (PP)
• Force Alfred to find Microsoft documents when 'documents' is ticked for default search, even though MS2011 seems to incorrectly remove the document metadata to identify these as generic documents.
• fix obscure crash when pasting from some Microsoft products into Alfred (containing a trailing null character)
• Make the 'action all visible items' work with web searches too
• Fix wording on Run in Terminal result item to prevent text changing (PP)

Changes for general release

• Fix search scope for default search (was always using file search scope for anything other than applications)
• Change default search scope to include /developer/applications rather than all /developer (less noisy results, especially for folders)
• Add Powerpack message on themes view to prevent confusion for non PP users
• Notify users that unticking home folder can affect results (PP)
• Decrease the double tap key interval to .26 seconds instead of .3 to reduce false activations
• Prevent exception when there is a dodgy contact card (PP)
• When viewing a contact card, cmd+o opens the entire card in Address Book (PP)
• Fix cmd+o to work correctly in the default searcher (always open file regardless of context)

0.8.1 10th Jan 2011

New Features

• Setup your own colour schemes Alfred (PP)
• Basic Terminal command integration - check the features preferences (PP)
• Add iTerm support for Terminal Command / Open Terminal Here action (PP)
• Support vague matching for file results such as 'kitty jpg' would match 'kitty playing on bed.jpg'
• Wildcards now supported in file search
• Add DuckDuckGo to the available web searchers

Improvements

• Improvements to Knowledge Sorting (inc. favour exact matches)
• Improve "Define" to open dictionary even when a word is not found (rather than just close Alfred)
• Configurable character limit on clipboard history (default 256k) to prevent accidental bloating of clipboard history
• Option to disable auto pasting in clipboard history
• Make holding alt on return work on an application as alternative launch such as choosing the iPhoto library you want to use (need to blank out alt return in general-result prefs)
• Remove preference to search for applications by file name (for alternative locales) and simply match both by default
• Add Chile to website locales
• Migrate users prefs from AlfredApp to Alfred in Application Support folder to keep consistency between versions
• Improve fallback prefs to allow for individual fallbacks to be disabled (i.e. just have Google as only fallback)

Bug Fixes

• Fix pasting keycode detection preventing a rare crash depending on keyboard configuration
• Ignore instant double taps of hotkeys to prevent triggering in some scenarios such as Screen Sharing (and possibly dodgy Logitech drivers)
• Prevent knowledge from being added twice unnecessarily
• Fix email signup in the About Alfred preferences to accept + signs in the email address
• Make Error -47 on ejecting drive more friendly - "Drive is currently busy"

0.8 17th Dec 2010

New features

• Recent Documents: Remember which documents have been launched and show the most recent documents per application (PP)
• Clipboard Snippets: Save commonly used snippets to paste easily from Clipboard (PP)
• Custom Fallback Searches: Choose your own fallback searches so that when Alfred doesn't find a local result, i.e. if you prefer Bing (PP)
• New System Command: Ability to eject dmg / superdrive / all / usb drive with 'eject' keyword
• Show inline word definition preview for define command (from dictionary)

Powerpack Improvements:

• Properly escape the 'open terminal' action path to ensure the correct folder is entered. Add option for 'copy path' escaping too.
• Option to hide the iTunes mini player after a song has been selected
• Remove layer backed view from iTunes album art (no fading but ~5 to 8mb less mem)
• Improve performance for genres in iTunes Mini Player
• iTunes store link for currently playing artist in mini player in top level view
• Added ability to filter by song title after selecting artist in iTunes Mini Player
• Set Enter as the 'paste' key in clipboard history (and cmd+c copy the selected item back to the clipboard)
• Delete key (fn + Backspace on smaller keyboards) to delete Clipboard item
• Add items to knowledge when actioning them directly from filesystem navigation

General Improvements:

• Relevancy improvement: Keyword linked knowledge learning taking into account date and OS X last used metadata
• Fix fuzzy matching to be considered in Knowledge - Sorting now works by keyword as well as date
• When opening files / folders, update 'last used' metadata to better contribute to the new knowledge sorting system
• Fix define/spell keywords in dictionary to show the correct items, ability to select the language in prefs
• Option to make the 'spell' results paste to OS X rather than copy to clipboard
• Cache the 'startup item' state so that it doesn't need to be obtained going into prefs to prevent momentary hanging
• Make Alfred Preferences window remain visible when showing Alfred (makes it easier to play with configuration)
• Cache last known state of apps at shutdown for instant startup
• Full UX sweep, look at every feature and how it can be improved
• Add a 'Alfred didn't find what you were looking for' message at the bottom of the window which takes you to a help page. This fallback can be hidden in the fallback preferences.
• Add South Korea and Indonesia to locales
• Tickbox to turn off app caching (to keep md query closed and save mem, recommended to keep caching on)
• New usage tab / graph! Delay load the usage graph (to when tab is shown)
• Added a preference for decimal separators in Calculator result output, plus make comma separator more flexible (mixed mode)
• Add option to Web Searches to recognise URLs in Alfred main window
• Preferences keyword to show Alfred prefs

Bug fixes:

• Stop cmd+down drilling into incorrect folder when scrolled down in fs navigation
• Fix iTunes listings where albums with the same name were not displaying such as "Greatest Hits"
• Fix Double Tap CMD hotkey with Caps Lock on
• Fix bug which caused Alfred to crash when testing a custom search and then showing Alfred without clearing the dialog first
• Strip white spaces from end of a URL when pasted into Alfred to prevent %20
• Fixed bug where the degree symbol crashed the advanced calculator, making the calculator much more robust at testing permissible characters

Changes for 0.8 dev 2

• Change build system to be 10.6 targetted with 10.5 backward compatibility - which will lead to some 10.6+ specific features
• Improve recent documents to also source from Cocoa shared plist files (10.6+ only) as well as internal knowledge
• Replace the intelligent search scope with user defined search scope
• New options for eject (in prefs), now able to show either removable or all mounted volumes. Note: Eject is now disabled by default.
• Huge overhaul of App Caching to work more dynamically and not require leaving a query open with the OS (making Alfred more defensive against OS quirks caused by things such as USB Broadband Dongles)
• When going up a level in Filesystem Navigation, reselect the folder you came from
• Fix a problem where files with a unicode filename were not emailing correctly
• Absolute path on 'copy to' and 'move to' destination field
• Search for clipboard snippets by name as well as keyword
• Add 'snip' keyword to access snippets from the main Alfred window
• Find spotlight commented apps in the 'Open With' action
• Darken Alfred menubar icon to match the standard Apple ones (volume, switch user etc)
• Shopping bag icon for iTunes mini player store link for consistency
• Include 'Smart Folders' when searching for folders in the default results
• Fix Spellings in Sys Command display, also put subtext
• Keyboard selection now working correctly with OS X's "Allow a different one for each document" setting
• 'Finder Selection' now works with both PathFinder (if currently front most app) and Finder
• Fix crash in 'Open With' action when typing ' character
• Show prefs cog on Alfred main window by default

0.7.2 beta 24th Oct 2010

This release starts the UI/UX improvements in the run up to the non beta release.

As part of this, the Result Action hotkey is now tapping the right arrow, ctrl or fn instead of Tab. By using the right arrow, it groups the keys for navigating around the actions.

Visit the keyboard help page to see all default keboard shortcuts.

NEW: Clipboard History (Powerpack)

• Text-based storage of items copied to the clipboard
• Hotkey access and quickly searchable history
• Paste selected history item directly into current app from Alfred
• Persistent (including reboot) for a user-defined amount of time (24h/1w/1m)
• Easy-to-clear history which ignores user-defined apps (e.g. 1Password & Keychain)

Improved: File System (Powerpack)

• Ability to show last browsed path in File System Navigation (hotkey / keyword)
• Ability to show Result Actions panel for selected item in Finder (hotkey / keyword)
• Change Tab behaviour in File System Navigation to auto-complete
• When pasting a file system path into Alfred core, navigate to that path in file system navigation
• 'Tab' auto-complete on File System Navigation, similar to shell
• Respect symbolic links when navigating through File System
• Type Ahead on Result Actions to narrow down selection (e.g. type "em" to filter to "email" then press Enter)
• Load file previews off the main thread in File System Navigation to prevent Alfred slowing down
• New Result Actions:
  • Open folder in Terminal.app
  • Show Package Contents for application
  • Copy path to clipboard

Improved: iTunes Mini Player (Powerpack)

• Add ability to 'Play all songs by Artist'
• Improved 'random' algorithm for random albums
• Prevent random Album from playing TV shows / Videos
• Partial match albums in default iTunes mini player search
• Overhaul database structure to improve efficiency and performnce
• Show Alfred core if using hotkey from iTunes mini player instead of hiding Alfred
• Toggle to turn off Alfred using its own Playlist when selecting songs

Other Powerpack Improvements:

• Support for Mailplane and Postbox 2 (Alfred will automatically detect your client. More clients coming soon.)
• Make 'email' keyword accept open ended argument to allow for entries not in your address book such as 'email foo@bar.com'
• Use mailto: instead of AppleScript for email keyword, to work with the current default mail client
• Small marker at bottom of navigation views to show that there are more items (shown under cmd+9)

General Improvements:

• A number of performance enhancements to both default search and Powerpack features
• Ability to clear a hotkey by using the Esc key
• Force write of preferences to disk when closing the prefs window to help people wanting to sync / backup
• Better emacs binding support to navigate results / actions instead of arrow keys
• Overhaul hotkey system to allow more flexibility for future and powerpack features
• Intelligent 'up folder' using backspace on File System Navigation and itunes player to replace alt-enter. Also cmd+up as per Finder.
• Experimental option to turn of CoreAnimation to prevent auto switching of graphics cards in newer MBPs
• Reorganise and improve Features preferences, separating Powerpack group
• Lots of UI consistency improvements and usability changes (too small to list here)

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent (in rare cases) UI pause when accessing prefs and NAS / Network Share unavailable
• Fix some spellings to match Apple's standard (Shut Down / Log Out)
• Remove unnecessary CoreAnim from Custom Sites as its not showing in very isolated cases with a corrupt user profile
• Prevent quirk when selecting 'browse folder' action and then removing full path in file system navigation - Now returns to correct window size
• Make correct song play if if Alfred iTunes Playlist resorted

Changes from pre-release:

• RwC Logo on About page
• Postbox Express now supported
• prevent 'up folder' in fs nav if path ends in double slash //
• Make 'open in terminal' the non top item in actions
• make sure fallback search string works properly (wasn't updating)
• Allow user to define the Alfred.app Playlist name
• Clear iTunes DB on build number change (not version number change)
• Leave out videos and non audio when playing 'all tracks by artist'
• Option to randomise when playing 'all tracks by artist'
• Show Album Artworks and Song Count on 'all tracks by artist' node
• New 'Random Album in [Genre]' default iTunes mini player option
• If you start typing a query core then switch to mini player, retain search query
• fix ctrl+n / ctrl+p in actions menu
• hide /dev and /mach_kernel in file system navigation

0.7.1 beta 23rd September 2010

iTunes Mini Player Improvements (Powerpack)

Significantly improved iTunes Mini Player, now indexes the iTunes Library XML directly. Improvements include:

• Browsing music by Genre/Album/Artist
• Animated scrolling through related artwork for selected result
• Ability to play a random album
• Non indexed drive and NAS support - Much more resilient against missing metadata
• Supports all types of music imported into iTunes (wav etc)
• Very basic Playlist support (this will improve soon)
• Using a temporary Alfred.app Playlist to provide a predictable playlist order
• If Alfred core is already showing, make iTunes hotkey show the mini player rather than hide core
• Make rating work off of persistent id rather than 'current track' to make more reliable
• Delete iTunes database on upgrade to ensure the latest version of indexing.
• Make refresh view work on dark L&F (will be made more consistent in future release)
• Keyboard shortcuts for current song star rating (cmd+alt+number)
• Change play hotkey to alt+cmd+down to group with forward and back
• Add alt+cmd+up for random album at any point
• Pad the persistent id hex string with 0 to match db id (make album show correctly on random)
• Add 'Play random album' inside individual Genre nodes (at top for easy access)
• Add 'Artists for genre' inside individual Genre nodes
• Ability to ignore the tracks that aren't ticked in iTunes (optional in prefs, includes all by default)
• Show more playlists and better icons to represent playlist type
• Filtering of playlists by typed name inside playlist node
• Add +1 onto the descriptor at index playlist loop as missing last playlist item
• cmd+r hotkey to reindex itunes library (when player open)
• prevent selection panel from taking first responder (so focus always stays in text input)
• Option to Play all songs by a particular artist: SLOW so 'hidden' option for now using boolean pref key itunes.showPlayAllTracksByArtist

New Features:

• New usage counter on the about tab - see how addicted you are ;)
• Option to filter out calendar items in file find preferences
• Added Romania, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil to locales

Bug Fixes:

• Fire selection changed when using the mouse to update the right hand summary (affects all panels, fs nav, actions etc)
• Capture keyboard input immediately after hotkey activation for cases where Alfred is prevented from opening instantly
• Correctly show iTunes artwork for artwork with non-square aspect ratio
• Better 'forced' single tap support with hotkey.forceSingleModifier hidden pref
• Prevent potential instability if OS X can't identify the location of some core apps like iTunes.app and Dictionary.app

0.7 beta 30th August 2010

The focus of the 0.7 beta is to bring the initial version of the Powerpack, a paid set of additional and incredible powerful features sitting on top of Alfred Core.

Read the Powerpack Announcement on our blog :)

New Features:

• Powerpack: Tab based result actions, press tab on a result and perform actions such as Open With or Copy To
• Powerpack: Added file system navigation with quick access using / (for root) and ~ (for home)
• Powerpack: iTunes mini player to access and play your music quickly and easily
• Powerpack: Add Powerpack tab to preferences with info and licence mechanism
• Powerpack: added 'email' keyword to create an email to a contact using Mail.app
• Many under the hood architectural and performance changes in preparation for Powerpack
• Pressing space before typing a query now gives a shortcut to open files (use ' for same shortcut)

Improvements:

• Improve the hotkey display in results, now showing enter under the selected result
• Fade in Alfred by default (after much deliberation, fading in is nicer for new / non power users)
• Lighten up default menubar icon and provide alternative white version when clicked
• Remove the Appearance option to 'hide preferences cog' when menubar hat is hidden as had too many support emails and tweets asking how to show preferences after this. Make cog on UI more subtle instead
• Improved 'About' tab in Prefs with hints of the new branding
• Much improved system command icons
• plist files are no longer hidden by default now that we are hiding system files
• Show the correct shortcut (enter) highlight on the selected result row

Bug Fixes:

• Fix initial saving of window position if selected in Appearance preferences
• More robust caching of Applications to prevent applications from not showing when MDQuery is stopped (such as when Parallels is launched)
• Change 'Show Alfred' in the menubar to 'Toggle Alfred' which shows or hides depending on state
• Change behaviour on autocomplete for filter based keywords to prevent quirkyness
• Fix disabling of show trash system keyword field in preferences when unticked
• Fix bug which prevented last typed query results showing if only Applications is selected
• Prevent Alfred crash on using option + ; (triple dot)

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 2

• Make 'Enter' work to play iTunes track for isolated cases of non english locales
• Ability to change the keyword used for the 'email' command
• Prevent iTunes hotkey from registering without Powerpack active
• Change the default 'cmd §' section key to activate iTunes, its now 'cmd alt enter'
• Change track forward and back hotkeys to 'cmd alt left/right' when iTunes active
• Bring back option to hide cog on Alfred window (removed temporarily)
• Add clearer info about iTunes path in prefs
• Respect unicode in iTunes track identification Applescript

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 3

• Ability to perform actions in the file system browser on hidden (dot) files
• Improved iTunes handling of Unicode tracks

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 4

• Overhauled iTunes music folder detection + add a 'Find' button in prefs if folder changes
• Replace 'Open' action with 'Browse in Alfred' for folders found through core Alfred UI

0.6.6 beta 12th July 2010

New Features:

• System command to show the trash with default keyword 'trash'.

Improvements:

• Simplify the Appearance preferences by removing some options and setting better defaults
• General code improvements and optimisations

Bug Fixes:

• Fix crash on directly running Applescripts with cmd+number

0.6.5 beta pre-released

New Features:

• Option to remember the last search query (in Appearance prefs). Additional option to forget query after 5 minutes.
• Highlight the top result item by default to make the action more clear to the user (option to disable this in the Appearance prefs)
• Added South Korea to locales

Improvements:

• The {query} argument is no longer 'required' in the custom web search config, meaning you could just put bookmarks in there
• Remove the unnecessary footer text on main window to clean up a bit
• Hide system files by default in experimental preferences
• Make the Alfred window not fade in by default as its quicker (user option if fade in is desired)
• Improve word splitting in application cache to include spaces and apostrophes such that "adresses" correctly matches "Carnet d'adresses"
• Ability to hide cog on Alfred window when hat is hidden in OS X menu bar

Bug Fixes:

• Fix tab Auto Complete on system commands to show keyword rather than UID key
• Fix crash when using two {query} strings in custom search
• Widen filter for hotkey function keys to prevent certain selections from being excluded such as cmd + left arrow
• Correctly save knowledge and also purge knowledge older than a month (to prevent bloat)
• Prevent 'define' from copying word to the dictionary

0.6.4 beta 20th June 2010

Due to substantial changes, preferences will be reset on this update (custom sites unaffected).

The main focus of this release is to build a more scalable platform for Alfred's future

New Features:

• Overhauled preferences making them easier to use and more scalable for future features
• Added 'Bugs' tab into preferences to simplify reporting bugs
• Added experimental feature to ignore System files - makes folder searching way less noisy
• Added Appsfire to default web searches with keyword 'app' to search for apps
• Add alfred:ignore (Spotlight comment) to experimental features allowing hiding of files from results

Improvements:

• Increase speed of App searching by ~365% further reducing the CPU load
• Many 'under the hood' changes to prepare for future features
• Change wikipedia back to using Special:Search url now that query encoding works better
• Subtext is now shown by default on all result items (if available)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed app creation date for Alfred.app in dmg
• Mixed mode UTF8 encoding on both default and custom searches - should make web searches more reliable

0.6.3 beta pre-released

Bug Fixes:

• Fix character encoding, now respects ASCII and UTF-8 encodings (e.g. Japanese google now works)
• Fixed cmd+a hotkey (poor logic on when to use mod key hotkeys)

0.6.2 beta 18th May 2010

This release will be used to test that Sparkle is working as expected.

New Features:

• Primitive 'play' keyword which filters by music files and plays them in your default player

Improvements:

• URL Encoding updated to correctly respect accented characters - fixes web and custom searches
• Ability to add AppleScripts to the default search results (no arguments yet, coming soon!)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed app creation date for Alfred.app in dmg

0.6.1 beta pre-released

New Features:

• Sparkle integrated for painless updates!!
• New system commands - sleep, shutdown, restart, logout, screen saver, empty trash, lock
• Added 'run' command to filter by and run applescripts (no args yet)
• Finland and Switzerland added to default locales
• Experimental option to search for apps by file system name (useful for users in a non-English locale wanting to find apps in English)

Improvements:

• Create framework for filesystem querying to allow for filters (find / open / run)
• Yahoo now correctly respecting the location

Bug Fixes:

• Change Wikipedia to use original url scheme which copes with URL encoding better
• Fix double tab modifier keys if caps locks is on
• Fix Bit.ly to use new URL scheme
• Filter characters on advanced calculator to prevent crashes with unicode chars

0.6 beta 27th Apr 2010

New Features:

• Ability to add your own custom web searches, including local urls such as spotify
• Optional fuzzy matching on Applications, for example thl would find The Hit List. Note: you get more accurate results with this option disabled and using Spotlight Comments instead.
• Added signup email box to beta tab
• Added folders to default search (e.g. 'desktop' to open Finder to Desktop). Work in progress - yet to be properly filtered
• Added Russia and Austria to locales, added Froogle Germany
• Update Austrian locale to use imdb.de and amazon.de

Improvements:

• Much much better calculator based on Graham Cox's GCMathParser: http://www.apptree.net/parser.htm
• Can now use F keys or double tapping modifier keys (including cmd+cmd) as the Alfred hotkey
• Changed default Wikipedia web search to more reliable search rather than /wiki/{query}
• Finder is now found with default searcher
• Austria now get imdb.de and amazon.de by default
• Built with XCode 3.2.2 / new optimisations

Bug Fixes:

• Fix buffer flushing issue in lex parser for calculator

0.5.7 beta development only

New Features:

• Added yubnub to web searchers
• Added Yahoo! weather to web searchers
• Ability to change cmd+number to ctrl+number to directly action a result
• Assignable ctrl / alt / cmd + enter actions on search results

Improvements:

• Overhaul 'Spotlight Comments' system, treating space separated comments as tags
• Improve efficiency of word matching and relevancy parsing, notably reducing CPU usage
• Added shared Preference Panes to default search scope (such as Growl)
• Use a sequential queue to lazy load icons rather than posix locking (more stable)

0.5.6 beta 5th Apr 2010

New Features:

• Add Poland to web locales

Improvements:

• Load result icons on a separate thread to prevent momentary glitching every so often
• Change 'status bar' to 'menu bar' in appearance prefs tab

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent empty query (spaces) from returning irrelevant search results
• Prevent config cog from showing over text field when both hats (menu bar / main window) are hidden

0.5.5 beta pre-released

New Features:

• Alfred now learns your usage and sorts the results accordingly
• Basic "Update Available" notification from within Alfred. Auto updating will come closer to non-beta
• Alt + enter opens your typed search term in google
• Ctrl + enter opens your typed search term in a finder spotlight window
• Option to hide hat button on main Alfred window
• Experimental 'Advanced' calculator (currently uses AWK) with '=' keyword

Improvements:

• Better search accuracy, using word based search instead of free text - will improve further over time
• All metadata code rewritten from scratch, now using MDQuery. Substantial performance increase!
• Much improved 'Local' configuration preferences
• Default calculator now supports to the power ^

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed threading issue with new 'Pre-cache Applications' which may have caused Alfred to quit unexpectedly
• Fix copy and paste bug, pasting into the search field.
• Fix calculator precision error (eg 12.3 + 14 - 26)

0.5.2 beta development only

New Features:

• Added pre-caching option for Applications for instant application results
• More fine control over what the default and file searches resolve
• Separate search scope for default / file searches including mounted volumes and network drives
• Ability to 'search everything' on the default search, not recommended though
• Ability to individually enable 'find' and 'open' and set their keywords

Improvements:

• General performance improvements
• Improve layout of panels in preferences, and standardise notes colours.
• Remove Quit confirmation because it was just annoying

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed rare bug causing specifically named results from crashing Alfred
• Fix direct URL entry on 10.5 Leopard caused by overly complex regex not being recognised
• Fix mix up of 'com' and 'ca' for Google Maps

0.5.1 beta development only

New Features:

• Added web shortcut for bit.ly URL shortening

Improvements:

• Tidy up sections of the preferences window
• Remember the last selected preferences tab
• Add 'Quit Alfred' button to the general tab of preferences
• Added Quit confirmation now we have multiple ways to quit

Bug Fixes:

• Fix tiny 32byte memory leak in preferences toolbar
• Fix ebay search url, update from www. to shop
• Fix mix up of 'com' and 'ca' for google images
• Change se.wikipedia.org to sv.wikipedia.org
• Fixed spelling of New Zealand (oops sorry!)
• Correctly URL encode '&' for web searchers

0.5 beta 21st Mar 2010

New features:

• Dictionary 'Spell' and 'Define'
• Basic calculator
• Google's I'm feeling lucky added with keyword 'lucky' (this will be improved in the future)
• Wolfram Alpha added to the standard web searchers with keyword 'wolfram'
• Google translation added with keyword 'translate' - Translates both sentences and websites
• Added Flickr search with keyword 'flickr'
• Added Ask.com with keyword 'ask'
• Spotlight Comments - you can set a comment of 'ff' for Firefox and Alfred will find it

Preferences:

• Improved hotkey selection field
• Ability to change keywords for web searches
• Ability to disable unwanted websites from results
• Option to prioritise items with Spotlight Comments at the top
• Preference to save window position
• Option to always show subtext under results if available
• Preference to turn off Alfred fade-in
• Added a 'Reindex' button to the experimental tab
• Ability to configure the 'Esc' key behaviour
• Ability to disable 'find' and 'open' keywords
• Experimental feature to allow a comma as decimal separator (for locales such as Germany)
• Experimental feature to ignore the locale for Google and Wikipedia
• Option to choose how many results are shown
• Option to remove text at bottom of window

Improvements:

• Tweaks to the dark theme
• Correctly URL encode a + as %2b (which means things like Google calculator will now work)
• Locale system overhauled (need to re-set your locale)
• Remove the status bar icon before quitting so it doesn't leave a gap
• Special characters now shown correctly in hotkey field

0.4.1 beta 7th Mar 2010

Initial feedback fixes:

• Ability to hide status bar icon. When status bar icon is hidden, you see a small cog for 'preferences' on the Alfred main window.
• Changed status bar icon to a simpler hat
• More flexibility for hotkey selection
• Simple tickbox to ignore Mail.app emails in 'find' and 'open' searches
• Added System Preference Panels to default search (eg 'Appearance')
• Once launched, show Alfred on double clicking icon in /apps or the icon in the dock
• Pressing Esc clears the search term. If there is no search term, Esc will hide Alfred
• Multi page preferences dialog
• Ability to search Google Mail using 'Gmail''
• Make 'tab' autocomplete work more reliably
• cmd + W now closes the preferences window
• Default Hotkey changed to 'alt space' - Check and update your hotkey!

0.4 beta 28th Feb 2010

Initial public version