As expected sending anonymous usage statistics is opt-in and is accessible in the preferences window.Īs I mentioned in an earlier post LittleIpsum was denied from the upcoming Apple Mac Store for not offering enough usefulness or entertainment value. By being able to see how everyone is using LittleIpsum I’ll be able to make improvements based off real world data and not assumptions. I’m incredibly excited about the addition of anonymous usage statistics. This release is meant to get LittleIpsum as stable and solid as possible for you before we dive into a new interface. “Start LittleIpsum at Login” now defaults to enabled as this is how most menu bar applications work.Fixed a memory issue when setting LittleIpsum to launch at startup.Anonymous usage statistics are now sent (opt in) to enable future improvements of LittleIpsum.HTML paragraphs no longer have stray space before each closing tag.No longer possible to get an empty string when copying one word.Clicking on the menu icon quickly no longer makes the counter increment faster.Control + Click now flags the generation of HTML.Application uses even less system resources.Tell your friends! (Huge thanks to Grant Hutchinson for enabling this update) LittleIpsum 1.1.2 was officially released yesterday brining performance improvements, bug fixes, and 10.5+ support. Thanks for the support everyone, hopefully it was the fact that I linked to your wonderful tweets & blog posts that opened Apple’s eyes. Hopefully they’ll approve the new binary shortly.Īpple, you continue to amaze me with your revolutionary and magical approval process. Since the original binary was submitted a few months ago, the version on the app store does not include the latest changes applied in LittleIpsum 1.1.2. I’m interested to hear what Apple’s response will be as they didn’t reply to my last email where I stated that I refuse to "incorporate additional features to enhance the user experience” as they had previous requested. For those who haven’t seen the earlier blog post, LittleIpsum had been previously rejected from the app store for “Not being useful enough.“ Its release date is scheduled for tomorrow - January 13th, 2010. Unbeknownst to me, LittleIpsum has been approved in the Apple Mac Store. Less than an hour ago I received an interesting tweet from LittleIpsum has apparently been approved, lol. Once again, huge thank you to everyone who contributed on Twitter and Dribbble towards making LittleIpsum awesome! Please let us know in the comments what you like / dislike each approach. Over the next week I’ll add the other proposed UIs for feedback. By dragging the cursor through the ‘text blocks’, you immediately see the amount of text being generated and placed on the clipboard. My suggestion was to represent the various bits of text (words, sentences, and paragraphs) as blocks, similar to the way you would abstractly ‘Greek’ text in a layout. The problem involves how you might simplify and streamline the way specific chunks of faux-Latin text can be selected via the menubar item. The first interactive method is by Grant Hutchinson: Click here to view it.Įarlier today, Dustin Senos requested some feedback on a proposed UI for his nifty LittleIpsum utility. As I’m a firm believer of user testing and quick iterations, I’ve decided to create interactive versions of their proposed UIs to gather feedback (to the Flash haters: it’s the quickest way of getting this to the world). Some great folks over on Dribbble (thank you Grant Hutchinson, Faruk Ateş, Kyle Pickering), and myself decided to mock up a few different possible interaction methods. Last week I created a quick video showcasing what I had been tinkering with, with a call to help to any designers to make the next iteration of LittleIpsum be as amazing as it can. Unfortunately, the current “count up” method doesn’t achieve this goal as elegantly as it could. The goal of LittleIpsum is to allow you to generate the exact amount of Latin text you need as fast as possible.
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