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McAfee Security Center and Anti Virus recently started giving false alerts on one of the DLLs in Trog Bar, McAfee calls it a Trojan and quarantines it when you try to install. This file (htmlayout.dll) is clean, and it is used by numerous vendors in the industry, who are also affected. We’re working to get this issue resolved quickly. In the meantime there are a few ways you can work around this…
Trog Bar is in the final stages beta testing. Of course, we’ve locked down the feature set, which keeps us from introducing last-minute bugs, and bug reports on the latest build have been sparse. Since lots of people are using it, this means the new Trog is quite stable.
With plenty of time but few bugs, we’ve taken time to play with an idea (in a separate development branch, of course). The idea is simple: use a fast and light SQL database to index Outlook’s tasks and emails. Then, query the database rather than Outlook’s MAPI interface…
Outlook 2007 SP2 fixed the commonly reported “I closed Outlook, but Task Manager says it’s still running” bug. While we’re thrilled that this bug was fixed, we’re not so excited about how it was done. The fix has created at least one headache for the Outlook development world. Here we describe the unlikely bug introduced in SP2 and the even more unlikely fix. [Click here to read more...]
Although there were occasional doubters and the development took an eternity, there can be no question. We’ve given birth to a totally new Trog Bar, and Trog development is back in the fast lane.
At long last, the fruits of a difficult development cycle are available. Monday we released a major new update to Trog Bar. How major? We modified about half our code. Of the code we did not modify, about 75% was removed. We replaced the entire user interface with a brand new, more stable, more flashy, more extensible, and more compatible one. Because the changes were so vast, we released this first update as a public beta instead of pushing it out through the automatic updater. It works well, feels great, has dozens of bug fixes, and we use it ourselves. Now you can help us test it “in the wild” before we push out the update to everyone.
What does it mean when the development blog is quiet for awhile? Are the programmers soaking in sun on a Hawaiian beach, or are they chained to their desks beside a pile of pizza?
Here is the inside scoop. Over the last 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on radical changes that will make Trog Bar even faster and more flexible with a smaller memory footprint.
The latest Preview feature in the Trog Bar is Natural Project Management. This slick tool will let you organize arbitrarily complex projects in bite sized pieces. Here is a brief overview that will get you started with this powerful new feature.
Your unprocessed list meets with numerous new arrivals every day. If you are among the blessed few, this number has only one digit, but if you are like me, or countless others, you net 20-100, maybe more. One of the basic tenets of GTD is the processing system, and one of the first questions you ask yourself when processing is “Is it a project?” Now, with the Trog Bar, you can handle these projects better than ever.
When you meet one of these projects, flip open the “Steps” tab, and type in the next step, easy as that. Now for the awesome part: it works with emails too. When you get that email, just add a next step, and voilà! It’s a project!
Every project should have one next action, and you should work only that action until it is done, so says GTD. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground is a little different. Especially in large projects, there may be many steps in a project that you can do, so there is no solid “next” step. There are in fact many possible next steps. Natural Project Management allows you to specify multiple steps as they occur to you. Any steps with no remaining prerequisites can be marked as “Ready” and will show a green circle next to them. These steps will appear in the various lists in the Trog Bar. The remainder should be left on hold, and…
A lot of software companies maintain development blogs. In fact, I’d venture to say that over 50% of GTD-related software providers have blogs. Until now, Priacta stubbornly ignored this trend, and for good reason. Why talk about the features, when we can let you use them? Maintaining a blog consumes time that could be spent creating features instead.
So why the change of heart? Ironically, it was a new feature!
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