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posted 02-14-2006 05:59 PM            

Released 2006 February 14th

Intel Macs

• We now support the new Apple Macs with Intel CPUs. Screensavers for Mac OS X will install as a Universal Binary format. This increases Mac OS X savers in size by about 300KB across the board.
  
• Note: iScreensaver Designer will also run on Intel Macs. However, it runs under Rosetta, not as a Universal Binary.
  

iScreensaver Designer

• Closing the advanced slide show editor with a music file playing could cause a crash under Windows. Fixed.
  
• Build progress dialog details was showing the wrong "Slide Show Size". Fixed.
  
• New sample project: "Interactive Project" demonstrates creating an interactive project using Flash. Sample .FLA file is included.
  
• Saving: Project file save errors will give you the chance to do a "Save As" instead. In prior versions, you would just lose any changes w/o warning.
  
• Audio File Type Warnings: Selecting a m4a (aac, unprotected) file no longer warns. Selecting a m4p (protected) gives a warning about DRMd files not working for others.
  

Double-Byte Language Systems

• Installers and savers have further improvements to work more reliably on Japanese, Chinese and other double-byte language systems. (Version 3.3 would often give incorrect "Not registered" messages, be missing customization text, or fail to show the proper images and movies.)
  
• Name of iScreensaver Preferences folder name no longer has non-ASCII character in it, for better compatibility.
  
• Please note that iScreensaver does not offer Unicode support, so you should try to use plain ASCII wherever possible.
  

Screensavers

• In Mac OS X, unregistered screensavers were sometimes putting up the "Not Registered" warning dialog 100% of the time, which was not nice. Now only shows up 1 in 4 uses on average.
  
• Increased performance & quality of visual effects on all platforms.
  

Screensaver Installer / Uninstaller

• Revamped the dialog box sequence when you don't have the right version of QuickTime loaded. Buttons are labeled better ("Download", "Continue", "Cancel"). You can choose "continue" to ignore the warning. If you do there is a secondary "are you sure" warning. We don't bother with the "you must use the recommended download" any more as it's no longer a problem in QuickTime installers.
  
• Updated link URL to QuickTime installers for several OS versions.
  

Wizard

• Select audio button defaults to appropriate folder: "~/Documents/Music" on Mac OS X, "My Music" on Windows.
  

[This message has been edited by iScreensaver Support (edited 02-14-2006).]