So when editing several notes simultaneously, this could have resulted in a very slow operation. And this is only allowed once every two seconds. When syncing personal notes, iCaching needs to do a separate network call to the Geocaching API for every single note. You can always change this choice in the Preference window. You can check the ‘never ask again’ button to remember your choice depending on your preferred workflow. Therefore, when you change a personal note (the yellow area on the Info tab) or you change a corrected coordinate, iCaching will ask you if you want to send it to. The tentpole feature of this version is the new sync for personal notes and corrected coordinates.Īt first I was hesitant to build it, because of the fact that it will overwrite the values that you might have entered on. Last week a new version of iCaching rolled out. For this special occasion I do a one time promotion with 30% off the usual price from March 15 to April 14 2021. If you want to recommend iCaching to a geocaching mate, then now is the time to do so. I wish everybody a lot of fun with iCaching in a lot more years to come. So respect the user interface guidelines and sometimes don’t add features if it will make the user interface cluttered and unclear. My goal is still what it was back then: make a tool that is easy to use in a way that Mac users expect. In all those years, many many hours of development went into the app, which is now a really mature versatile geocaching tool. Around three months after the inception of the App Store, I had a version that was good enough to release to the public.įor reference, the most actual macOS version at that time was 10.6 Snow Leopard. Then it became my goal to make my little tool available for other Mac geocachers. So that became the start of iCaching.įew months after I had the first very limited version of iCaching, Apple introduced the Mac App Store. In the same period I was trying to figure out developing software for the Mac as a hobby, while I created some small tools on Windows before I switched to Mac. When I prepared a trip with a friend I was a bit jealous on his Windows tool called GSAK. But there were only a few very limited tools available. Unbelievable, but it is already 10 years ago that iCaching was released in the (then brand new) Mac App Store.Īs geocacher and Mac user I was at that time searching for a tool to help me prepare geocache trips. I really hope you enjoy this feature, and please let me know what you think of it. For the geocaches you find, you create a quick ‘draft’ log in the app.Īnd once your back home, enjoying a nice coffee or beer, you go to the Log window in iCaching and you get the draft logs from and you make nice complete logs from them, describing your adventures finding those caches. Then you go out in the field with the mobile app and search geocaches from the synced Bookmark folder in the app. This makes iCaching the perfect companion for the mobile geocaching apps first you start exploring a nice collection of geocaches on your big Mac screen, and put them in a Bookmark folder. These Bookmark folders work like the normal Folders in iCaching, so you can drag and drop caches in them, remove caches from them etc. Changes you make to the list in iCaching will sync back to and vice versa. When you have bookmark lists on the website, they will now automatically appear in the left pane of iCaching. This summer I quietly released iCaching 10.0 with a very great new feature: automatic sync of bookmark folders. It’s been a long time since the last post here.
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