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Windows Phone 7 in Australia
Want to sign up online for a Windows Phone 7 phone with Australia’s largest carrier? Microsoft Australia's " Major Launch Partner " for Windows Phone 7? Good luck! Edit! As predicted, Telstra have "fixed" the problem by removing the "Buy now on a plan" link entirely...
Comicster.Searches.Top50
I’ve just uploaded a new extension for Comicster called Comicster.Searches.Top50. This extension adds two new custom searches: “Top 50 Characters” and “Top 50 Creators”. They display the 50 characters and creators in your collection by the amount of issues in which they appear. The results might surprise...
Improving Comicster’s “Blank Page” Experience
Something I added very early on in Comicster ’s life was a “welcome” page so that new users didn’t see a stark white screen when they first ran the program: I’m a firm believer in guiding users through the process of using your application, so this was a no-brainer. However, when the user got around...
Comicster 4.0.0.20
The latest version of Comicster has escaped, and it’s a doozy. The biggest new feature in this version is the Extensions system , which lets you browse and install extensions from inside the application: Extensions like skins and plug-ins used to live in a folder called “Comicster” under “My Documents...
Comicster Forums
Hi guys, You might have noticed that the Comicster forums are offline. I’ve just moved madprops.org over to a new server, and have had to retire the old forums. The good news is that I’m getting some new, improved forums up and running over on the Comicster web site. Bear with me and I’ll update this...
Call Me Nostradamus
Me, on Twitter, two days ago: The news this morning: Minecraft Coming This Winter to 360 and Kinect There goes my free time for the next, I dunno, ten years ....
Comicster 4 Gets Search
And it’s awesome! Version 4.0.0.14 , just published, has a new button at the bottom left which brings you to the Search view (you can use Ctrl+F too). Let’s take a look! This search view lets you do a plain text search by typing in the “Find” box and hitting Enter, or a custom search by selecting an...
Printing and Location now in Comicster 4
A couple of additions to issues in Comicster 4 this morning: The CMX Merger tool has also been updated to import these values from your original collection file! Go get it!...
Comicster CMX Merger
I’ve just published the first plug-in tool for Comicster 4. This will merge storylines and autographs from the CMX file you originally converted from the previous version of Comicster. Note that it finds storylines and issues based on the internal IDs, so if you’ve removed an issue and added it back...
Autographs in Comicster 4
A feature that was in the previous version that I’d forgotten about in v4 (thanks for the reminder, John) was the ability to record whether a creator has signed an issue. That’s now available in 4.0.0.11 . Now, if you’ve already imported your old CMX file and you’re missing some features that I’ve added...