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To celebrate the release of Quiet Read 1.7, Quiet Read will be available for 50% off, only $4.99 through Feb 17 and 18, on the App Store.

Quiet Read 1.7 has just been released. These are the most important changes:

1. Tags. Links can be tagged. Link lists can be filtered by tags. Tags should also be exposed to Spotlight
2. Undo/Redo.
3. Links can be dragged out to other applications.
4. Links can be dragged out to the Finder to create webloc files.
5. Better contextual menus.
6. Fixes a couple of bugs related to the favicons.

So, the main new feature is tagging. The tags are hidden by default, but you can show them by pressing Command+I:

Select a link to view its assigned tags, or to add some new ones. The links list can be filtered by tag:

Quiet Read is also available on the App Store.

On January 6th, Apple will launch the Mac App Store. Keep Your Word, Quiet Read and Share will be available on it.

What is the Mac App Store?

According to Apple, “the Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad”. It is a place, curated by Apple, where you will be able to find and download Mac apps.

You mentioned that your apps are going to be available on the App Store, didn’t you?

Yes, I did. Keep Your Word, Quiet Read and Share will be available on the App Store.

Does that mean that your apps will only be available on the App Store?

No, it does not. The three apps will still be available for purchase on bambooapps online store. And also, on the Mac App Store.

I purchased a copy of Keep Your Word/ Quiet Read Pro/ Share a couple of months ago. Can I download it from the App Store?

I am afraid you can not (unless you want to pay for it again). There is no way to “import” a license into the App Store. If you purchased a license on our online store, you will have to keep on using the app that is distributed outside Apple’s App Store.

So, does that mean that if I purchased an application on your website, I won’t be getting any more updates?

No. Here is the thing: don’t tell anyone, but there are two actual versions of each application, one will be available on the App Store, and the other one will be available outside the App Store. Both versions will be getting updates regularly, at the same time.

Are the features of both versions of your applications exactly the same?

Almost. All the applications available on the App Store have to be tested, and approved by Apple. We developers get a set of guidelines that we have to stick to. That means that a feature that might be available in the out-of-the-store version might not be available in the App Store version, for a given application. Usually, the most feature-rich version will be the one available outside the App Store.

And what about the pricing. Will it be the same?

Yes.

Ok, great, so what do I have to do now? Why are you telling me all this?

Well, that’s the good news. You don’t have to do anything special. Just keep on using the applications, you will still be getting regular updates. I just wanted to let you know that. Oh, and I also wanted to wish you a happy new year.

If you have any other concerns, please drop me a line.

One of Quiet Read’s most requested features is Dropbox syncing. Well, it’s not available at this moment, and I can’t honestly say if it will ever be.

However, Tomas Schlosser has found a way to use Dropbox as a repository for both the links and favicons.

Please, bear in mind that this setup is not officially supported by us, and that, as Tomas points out, very bad things can happen when changes to Quiet Read’s link list happen simultaneously in more than one machine. I am not even sure how Quiet Read would react to changes made in both directions.

So, insert here a bunch of disclaimers, I-told-you-not-to-do-it’s, and YMMV’s.

Quiet Read 1.6 is out.

What is new in Quiet Read 1.6?

New only in Quiet Read Pro:

1. An option, in the app preferences, to get a proper window and a dock icon instead of the icon in the menu bar.
2. New url shortening service: http://is.gd. trim.it is not supported anymore.
3. Swipe gesture to navigate between the Inbox and the Archive.

New in Quiet Read and Quiet Read Pro:

1. Search your links using Spotlight.
2. Russian localization.

Quiet Read 1.5 is out! Yay!

Here’s what’s new:

New in Quiet Read and Quiet Read Pro:

1. Links can be marked as read/not read.
2. Improved MobielMe sync.
3. Bugfixes. Some of those bugs were not relevant, some of them were.

New in Quiet Read Pro:

1. Archive. New links added to Quiet Read appear in the “Inbox” by default. Any link can be moved to a separate listing, called the “Archive”.
2. Send to Pinboard.

Grab your copy, and let us know what you think.

It’s summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere.

To celebrate the long days at the beach, the extreme heat, and the amazing sizes of Hong Kong’s mosquitoes, during August 3, 4 and 5, you can get a 50% off of all of our applications.

To get the discount, use this coupon code when purchasing Keep Your Word, Quiet Read Pro or Share in our online store: SUMMERSALE2010

It’s 6 am in Hong Kong, and I’ve already suffered another episode of my endless frustration with Subversion, and published Quiet Read 1.4.3

This update does not bring many exciting new features (unless you are a Quiet Read Pro user and are very excited by the new “Send to delicious”), but fixes some annoying bugs, and makes the app more solid and reliable.

To update Quiet Read, open the app’s preferences, go to the “General” panel, and click the “Check for updates now” button.

Quiet Read 1.4 should be navigating the Bits and Bites Sea any minute now.

What’s new in Quiet Read?

Favicons
This won’t make a huge difference in the way the application behaves, but it makes it a little bit prettier. And prettier is better.

But, if you don’t like pretty things, you can hide them in the application preferences.

Contextual menu
Control+click or right click a link, and you will get a contextual menu that will let you open, edit and delete the link.

Drag and drop to other applications
You can drag links to Safari, Firefox, TextEdit, Adium… to any application that supports it.

What’s new in Quiet Read Pro?

AppleScript
Yay! You can add links to Quiet Read Pro directly through AppleScript. For instance, to add the frontmost page in Safari:

tell application “Safari”
set theWindow to item 1 of windows
set theTab to item 1 of the tabs of theWindow
set theTitle to do JavaScript “document.title” in theTab
set theUrl to do JavaScript “document.location.href” in theTab
end tell

tell application “Quiet Read”
set theLink to make new link with properties {url:theTitle, title:theUrl}
end tell

Export to CSV
You can export all your links to a CSV file. Why would you do that? I don’t know…

Extended sorting options
By default, Quiet Read sorts your links by creation date, ascending. In English, that means, the oldest first, the newest last. You can change the sorting to creation date, descending (newest first), or sort by title or by url.

Email links
A convenient way to send your favourite Youtube cat videos to all your friends. Can you believe this, by the way?

Send links to ReadItLater/Instapaper automatically
Many of you asked for it, so here it is: you can send all incoming links to Read It Later and/or Instapaper automatically. You are welcome.

Multiple selection
This should not be a new feature, it should have been always there, but better late than never, don’t you think? Select multiple links, and perform actions over the selection.

And that’s all (for now). Thank you all for being there. Thank you for downloading Quiet Read, and thank you with cream on top if you purchased Quiet Read Pro. Oh, and add some cherries on top of that cream if you are one of the volunteers who translated the application.

Oh, and if you are not sure about what is that Pro and not Pro thing, check out our better and bigger support centre.