In Mail.app I’m using the preference to move Junk to its own folder. However as I scan the folder to look for false positives and hit Not Junk it doesn’t move said message to my inbox. Considering I’m basically saying “this is stuff I care about” you’d think it would move it to the Inbox or something.

Similarly, a few days in, Mail.app’s default Junk filter isn’t all that great. I’ll give it some more time though before jumping back to SpamSieve.

I continue to miss my preference from Entourage which would put the insertion point after the quoted message. Mail likes to always put the insertion point at the top and I don’t like top posting.

Cause it doesn’t let you naturally read a message.
Why don’t you like top posting?

As I posted on Twitter, I really don’t like the new grid folder display via the Leopard Dock. In Tiger I kept a few large folders down there, including Applications. Browsing these with the grid isn’t very fast. Thankfully there is a little app out there to replicate the old behavior. Check out Quay if you are in a similar need. Works great, has some nice options and is only ~ $10US.

With my move away from Entourage into Mail.app, I’m also trying to fully embrace Address Book and iCal as well. Once nice little feature of iCal is that you can subscribe to calendars. Apple also makes a bunch of useful calendars available for DVD and Movie releases as well as holidays and sport schedules. For the sport schedules specifically it would be nice if the event was edited to show the final score afterwards. It would also be nice if when you hit “Download” on Apple’s site it would open the subscription in iCal. Right now I just get some Safari media type error and am forced to copy/paste the url myself. Maybe just a server hiccup. Example.

Speaking of iCal, that sure is a nice calendar view in the lower right hand corner. I wish it was a standard control.

Spotlight uses way too much RAM. The other day I noticed it at 150 MB Resident (as in real) RAM and just now it sits at 234 MB. I guess this is one way to speed it up.

I won’t bother typing out why I think the new Dock is worse than the old (been done to death on the blogs), but suffice to say I ran this preference setter almost immediately after installing Leopard.

Anyways, those are some first thoughts on user-end things. As I dig deeper into the new APIs I’ll post more.

Like last year, a big list of Mac software developers are teaming up to do MacSanta discounts again this year.

Be sure to grab that RSS feed for the daily specials.

• ~/Library/Application Support/Billable/*
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.clickablebliss.Billable.plist

If you ever want to backup/restore Billable these are the files you are interested in.

Also, as for Leopard compatibility, the current version works pretty good though I do have a bug fix that will be out real soon (probably later today) to fix the drag and drop token Leopard bug.

If you spot any other Leopard issues let me know. Thanks.

• Fixed a migration issue some people were experiencing when upgrading from 1.0 to 1.2.
• Fixed a bug where starting a timer on one service while another timer was running was not stopping the previous timer as the dialogue said it would.
• The message field in the edit invoice sheet no longer continuously updates the stored value as you type. Every change caused the PDF cache to be evaluated and cleared which was slow on older machines and is not really something that we need to do.
• Editing the invoice number format by dragging and dropping tokens now works under Leopard.

Download: http://media.clickablebliss.com/downloads/billable/Billable_1.2.3b1.dmg

I’ll probably post this as a live release in the next few days. If you have been suffering from any of these issues or just want to help test, please do so and let me know if you have any problems. Thanks!

If you want to re-migrate from the database as it was in 1.1.2 follow these instructions:

• Make sure Billable is not running.
• Go to the Application Support folder:

/Users/[you]/Library/Application Support/Billable/

• Rename the current Billable.sqlite to something like Billable-old.sqlite.
• Copy the file in the folder Backup named “MigrationBackupSchema7To8.sqlite” to the parent folder and name it “Billable.sqlite”
• Download the new build and install it:

http://media.clickablebliss.com/downloads/billable/Billable_1.2.2.dmg

• Run the new build. It will ask to migrate your data, let it and then check the results to see if it fixed the issue.

I’m really sorry to see this bug make it into the public release. I’m very serious when it comes to the user’s data (as this isn’t a simple bookmark file or anything ornamental). In fact the bug isn’t really in the migration code at all, but the result of a feature I added that I have to now re-engineer. Anyways I’m sorry if this bug has effected you. Please let me know if you need anymore help.

• Create pre-addressed emails with PDF invoices attached via a single button click.
• Invoice quantities of items and have Billable calculate the total.
• Choose dates using a new visual calendar popup.
• Integrate your custom workflow needs via AppleScript.
• Write verbose service descriptions in the new per-service note field.
• Mark invoices as due on receipt rather than a specific day.
• Experience faster PDF viewing, easier service editing and more!

A What’s New in 1.2 screencast (~ 5 min) is also online in case you want a more guided tour.

• Small: 640x480 (5.1 MB)
• Large: 1024x768 (8.3 MB)

As always, feedback is very welcome and help me define what to do next. Send it in early and often.

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[BUGFIX] You can now edit a client icon on Leopard without Billable crashing.

[BUGFIX] The sidebar now collapses at 95 instead of 80 to fix the drawing bug seen when you had a long list of clients in the sidebar (w/ scroller present) and tried to resize the sourcelist.

[BUGFIX] Keyboard navigation for service and invoice panels are now working again.

[BUGFIX] Keyboard navigation for radio button section in Preferences > Defaults now works.

[BUGFIX] Improved the timer wherein when you press start/stop it will first try to make the start/stop button the firstResponder. By doing this edits you may have typed in but have not set (because you didn’t press enter or leave the field) will be set before the timer actually starts.

[BUGFIX] We now do a better job of suppressing the flashing of the “PDF Rep out of date message when the application is about to automatically rebuild it for you (ie: row selection and Paid in Full stamp).

[NEW] There is a new button on the invoice pane that will let you quickly open up the PDF in Preview.app.

Download: Billable 1.2b2
Bug Reports and Feedback: http://clickablebliss.com/contact