WineBottler | 1.5.31

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WineBottlerWineBottler 1.5.31 contains the last development build of Wine.app, as the wine project is going into codefreeze to finally release another stable version. This is a very good development because the last stable version (Wine 1.4.1) is getting very dated.

With everything set up, I plan to continue to serve development builds of Wine alongside the new stable.

For WineBottler 1.5.31 we did some cleanup and bug-fixing. Especially programs, that need encryption perform better, as ntlm_auth (client mode) is working now.

As usually, you can download the new WineBottler over at winebottler.kronenberg.org.

Enjoy
Mike

WineBottler | 1.5.30, now with Codesigning support

WineBottlerOne of the features I needed lately was the ability to codesign my WineBottler apps. It is a requirement to pass OS X's Gatekeeper in default settings – not all users are able or/and comfortable with lowering their security settings, which is absolutely OK in these days.
All you have to do to codesign your Apps generated by WineBottler, is to enter your Apple Developer ID (you find your Developer ID in Keychain's "My Certificates" – look out for "Mac Developer: YOUR NAME (XXXXXXX)". Now enter "Mac Developer: YOUR NAME (XXXXXXX)" in the corresponding field of WineBottler's advanced tab, and it will digitally sign your app as a final step. Done.

Documentation & Tech Specs
I finally got around to write down a very short and preliminary Documentation for WineBottler: It explains all the advanced settings in short words. The Tech Specs contain some notes about how a WineBottler App-bundle is structured and how my builds of Wine.app are made, as well as all the included dependencies.

WineBottler - Advanced

As usually, you can download the new WineBottler over at winebottler.kronenberg.org.

Enjoy
Mike

WineBottler | 1.5.29

WineBottlerFirst I'd like to shout out a loud "Thank you!" to all the supporters over the last years, especially the last month. You made me not drop the ball... and here I stand now, not with one new version of WineBottler, but with two 🙂

I happily raise the curtain for:

WineBottler 1.4.1
I showed of a very early version of it once. One of the main features is, that it hides X11 by writing a custom xinitrc for every bottled app. This way, every app has it's custom X11 environment, with icon and menu. You can cmd-tab between the apps like with every other app. Additionally, there is a tool-menu with the most important tools like filemanager, configuration and winetricks.

WineBottler 1.5.29
But somebody pushed me to adapt it to Wine 1.5.29 because of the new Mac driver. So here we are... pushing WineBottler 1.4.1 to obsoleteness in the very same post. What is the Mac driver, you ask? It's the replacement of X11 in Wine for the Mac, which is great news, as X11 is an optional install on OS X now. I did not yet add the menus I normally have in the bottled Apps, as this will force me to break the "non patched wine" policy I had for years now. But we will see, how this evolves.

WineBottler_1_5_29

Update your current version of WineBottler and Wine.app by downloading the new versions from winebottler.kronenberg.org
As 1.4.1 is still the stable version, you manually have to download 1.5.29. 1.5.x have their of appcast for future updates.

I'm currently revamping the WineBottler website, please be patient with me, if something is not in its place during the next days.

enjoy
Mike

rhetoris public betatest

After a development-stop of over a year, I'm happy to finally announce the public beta of rhetoris.
rhetoris is a light RSS/ATOM reader.
Find out first about the new Q, Darwine or ies4osx builds.

The key features are:

  • speaks the headlines
  • polls the news regularly – You are informed, when it happens
  • the searchable database - You can store news over years and conveniently access it fast by full-text search
  • iTunes integration - Your music fades for headlines
  • Growl integration
  • customizable settings for voices and colors of feeds, to give you a real overview of what happens
  • pauses if You're away

Hope You find it usefull – at least the news-junkies 😉

grab Your copy for testing at www.kronenberg.org/rhetoris

Mike

RPN Calculator Widget for OS X

Did I really say the whole nine miles? Here is the Dashboard widget for OS X :).

enjoy, Mike