I'd like to introduce you to the newest member in the Binary Fortress family, DisplayFusion. DisplayFusion is a fantastic (and free) new application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows. Here are just a few of the things you can do with DisplayFusion:

• Use a different wallpaper on each of your monitors
• Use one wallpaper that spans all of your monitors
• Drag maximized windows between monitors
• Move windows to the next monitor
• Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
• Move windows to centre of the monitor
• Tile windows along the top, bottom, left or right side
• And many more things...

I'd like to give a big thanks to Chris Ysebert and Keith Lammers for their help with testing, tweaking and general polishing.

And, of course, DisplayFusion v1.0 is free, just like all of my software. I invite you to check out DisplayFusion today!

Sometime around the middle of this week iTunes Sync passed the 20,000 download mark. Hurray! When I wrote this application just over 2 months ago, I did so because I wanted to use iTunes with my cheap-o MP3 player. When I posted iTunes Sync for others to download I had no idea there were as many people in the same situation as me. Well, it turns out there are, as iTunes Sync has been averaging over 340 downloads per day, with a steady stream of email and forum feedback to match. Thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports, feedback, suggestions and to everyone who contributed to the tested MP3 player's list. You've all helped to make iTunes Sync what it is today!

Cheers!

I have posted a new version of Clipboard Text Scrubber. This is a quick bug fix release, to clear up a couple of small issues. Here's a rundown on the changes:

• Fixed a bug that would cause the "Clear Clipboard" menu option to not do anything
• Fixed a bug that would cause an infinite loop (Thanks to Carsten on the Forum for finding this bug)
• Changed the icons (again) to something with more contrast

I recommend that anyone using an older version of Clipboard Text Scrubber update to the latest version today.

This is just a quick note to people that are waiting for help with iTunes Sync. I have received many, many emails looking for help and I am doing my best to answer each one, but there is currently a large backlog. Please be assured that you will receive a response as soon as possible.

A new version of Clipboard Text Scrubber has been released into the wild. v1.3.0 fixes an annoying bug that caused too many notifications to be shown, even when the clipboard hasn't been changed. Now, you should only receive a notification about the clipboard being scrubbed when it actually has done something. For example, copying text to the clipboard in the Notepad application will no longer cause a notification, but copying text from Microsoft Excel or Word will, because it really is being cleaned.

Check out Clipboard Text Scrubber today!

After over a month with no new release of Clipboard Text Scrubber I decided that last night and tonight I should focus on it, to clear up some outstanding issues. Here's a quick rundown on the wholesome goodness included in the 1.2.1 release:

• Double-clicking on the system tray icon scrubs the text on the clipboard
• Removed the "invalid format" message when non-text data is on the clipboard, it was annoying
• Now saves application settings so you don't have to keep setting it up every time
• New application icons
• Significant memory usage reduction
• Provides HTML scrubbing - this will remove any HTML tags from your clipboard
• Setup now detects whether you need to install the .NET Framework 2.0 and will open a download page automatically

Wow, looks and sounds good to me! Take a peek today.

Just a quick update about iTunes Sync and the planned localization support. I have had an overwhelming response to include a German interface option in the next release of iTunes Sync. Amongst this response I have had about 1 person per day volunteering to help translate the interface. Fantastic! I have had to start turning people away because I have enough people already to help with German, but if you're interested in a different language just drop me a line. You can be sure that I will try my best to get German support into the next release.

Thanks to everyone!

iTunes Sync 1.4.0 has been released and it's jam packed full of changes. The biggest change in this new release is that iTunes Sync can now check for updates on program startup, if you so desire. The auto-update check is enabled by default but can be easily disabled using the system tray menu. The other big change is the re-design of the synchronize window (again). I have merged the "Select a Drive" window with the sync window, so that you can get your music sync'd easier, with less clicks.

Here is a complete rundown on the changes:

• Automatic update checking at startup (defaults to enabled, but can be disabled if desired)
• Double-click the system tray icon to open the synchronize window
• Fixed the empty notification balloon for device insert/removal when the volume label is blank
• Added 5 new folder structures:
• \ Album \ Artist \ # - Song.mp3
• \ Artist \ # - Song.mp3
• \ Album \ # - Song.mp3
• \ Genre \ Artist - # - Song.mp3
• \ Genre \ Artist \ # - Song.mp3
• Doesn't allow duplicate MP3 player names anymore
• Changed "unknown" filenames to be more descriptive (example: "unknown artist" or "unknown album")
• Got rid of the "Choose a Drive" window and moved it to a drop-down in the synchronize window for quicker drive selection
• Saves the last used MP3 player name and selected it automatically when opening the synchronize window
• Saves the volume name that was last used for each MP3 player and selects it automatically when selecting that MP3 player in the synchronize window
• Added a "Language" option to the system tray menu in preparation for localization support (currently only has English as an option though)
• Now detects and truncates long files (over 240 characters) to prevent errors when trying to copy the file the MP3 player

Download it and enjoy it's delicious fat-free flavour today!

I was checking my stats for iTunes Sync recently and noticed that in my top 10 referring sites 1 was French and 2 are German. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, as iTunes Sync is English only. This got me thinking, is there any demand for localized versions of iTunes Sync? I have always wanted an excuse to play around with localization, so if anyone is interested in assisting with translations just drop me a line. There really isn't that much text in the interface, so translation would consist of about 50-60 words and phrases. If there isn't enough demand right now this is always something that can revisited for a later release.