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iShowU v1.x
Requires OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)

and a reasonably fast (G4, 1.4Ghz minimum) machine

iShowU 1.78
1.78 (26 May 2010)
    Fixes
    • Minor internal change to fix some QT encoding issues.
iShowU 1.77
1.77 (09 May 2010)
    Fixes
    • Fixed bug in the SSL initialization that could cause a crash at startup.
    • iShowU now checks to see if an update is in progress before recording (and prompts if one is, so you don't have an update appear mid recording).
    • Modification to the System audio playthrough. Fixes a bug on some systems and speeds it up considerably.
    • Updated various translations.
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iShowU 1.76
1.76 (26 November 2009)
    Changes
    • iShowU now checks to see if an update is in progress before recording (and prompts if one is, so you don't have an update appear mid recording).
    • Modification to the System audio playthrough. Fixes a bug on some systems and speeds it up considerably.
    • Updated various translations.
iShowU 1.75
1.75 (23 September 2009)
    Changes
    • Upgraded the Sparkle framework (for Software updates).
    • Corrected a number of memory leaks.
    • Fixed a bug causing crashes with "screen configuration changes" (such as repositioning the dock).
    • Now built on 10.6
iShowU 1.74
1.74 (07 September 2009)
    Changes
    • Another Snow Leopard update (fixes Soundflower install problems)
iShowU 1.73
1.73 (03 September 2009)
    Changes
    • Now more resilient when using multiple graphics cards.
    • Screensaver and Energy Saving now disabled during recording (no settings are changed).
    • If "Enable support for assistive devices" is disabled, and mouse animations are requested, you are now prompted to enable the required support in Universal Access, or disable mouse animations.
    • Fixed up the UI so that the "Slow capture rate when not moving mouse" and "Show capture guide when recording" labels are much shorter, reducing the possibility of clicking on these by mistake.
    • Fixed a bug whereby the mouse animations wouldn't show up if you were not recording the mouse.
    • Updated Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and French localizations (thanks to Michael Krekin, Roland Leroux, Koichi Matsumoto and He Yunxuan).
iShowU 1.72
1.72 (14 July 2009)
    Changes
    • Added the ability to have the recording auto stop after X seconds, minutes or hours.
    • Updated references to help and documentation.
    • Updated support request (ticketing) app.
    • A couple of internal fixes.
iShowU 1.71
1.71 (19 May 2009)
    Changes
    • Fixed issue with banding under GMA950.
iShowU 1.70
1.70 (16 May 2009)
    Changes
    • Added better support ticket integration.
    • Code inserted to try to work around sgAudio notification crash.
    • Changed the wording of the registration dialog to indicate that iShowU won't remove the green text from videos that have already been made.
    • Fixed a bug where pressing Pause then stopping recording would result in weird pause state.
iShowU 1.69
1.69 (24 November 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed issue whereby if you attempted to overwrite a named take, the original file would still exist (it's now removed).
    • Fixed a problem that could caused named takes to not work correctly.
    • Fixes to event taps.
    • Updated registration system.
    • Updated Spanish localization.
    • Updated French localization.
iShowU 1.68
1.68 (04 August 2008)
    Changes
    • Added the ability to name takes (an optional feature you can turn on in preferences).
    • Updated Japanese localization
iShowU 1.67
1.67 (01 July 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed the bug causing recording to crash (if audio was enabled) on 10.4.x systems.
    • Fixed a bug whereby the countdown timer would sometimes appear in the final recording.
    • Fixed a bug that would cause the program to crash when opening preferences
    • Fixed a memory leak
    • New Simplified Chinese localization
    • Updated Russian localization
    • Updated German localization
iShowU 1.66
1.66 (07 May 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed bug whereby presets were not automatically loaded.
    • Fixed jerky recording when under load (Apple Intermediate, recording World of Warcraft).
    • The above fix may also resolve issues customers have had recording using H264.
    • A number of other minor bugfixes.
iShowU 1.65
1.65 (05 May 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed jerky recording when under load (Apple Intermediate, recording World of Warcraft).
    • The above fix may also resolve issues customers have had recording using H264.
iShowU 1.64
1.64 (16 April 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed problems with pause where after repeated pauses recording might stop (didn't happen all the time).
    • Fixed issue whereby the grab would become faster after pause (if you never paused while recording you'd never notice this).
    • When paused you can now move the capture rectangle about.
    • Mono option put back in as some people are using the single two channel mic input to record two tracks of audio and balance it later. It's now in Preferences not part of each preset.
    • Fixed bug whereby presets were still reset if you answered "No" to the "Do you want to reset" question.
    • Fixed a possible crash bug.
iShowU 1.63
1.63 (14 April 2008)
    Changes
    • Updated the Chinese localization.
iShowU 1.62
1.62 (08 April 2008)
    Changes
    • Fixed screen flicker when recording other OpenGL applications (as long as follow mouse is off).
    • YouTube preset now uses H264 for encoding.
iShowU 1.61
1.61 (08 April 2008)
    Noteworthy changes
    • You now have the option to record left and right click animations in the video.
    • The entire capture pipeline is a few percent faster now.
    • High performance capture is now the default. GMA950s (Intel MacBook and Mac Mini get a performance boost).
    Changes
    • Cursors from Photoshop and MS Word 08 are now shown correctly. The fixes applied here will probably make a number of other problematic cases now work as well.
    • The frame rates as reported are now calculated as moving averages.
    • Fixed issues switching display resolutions, or performing fast user switching.
    • The digitizer rectangle now shows in all spaces (under Leopard) if it's enabled.
    • The capture guide now longer appears in recorded video (hurrah!).
    • Capture guide now reflects the recording speed (so it jumps across the screen if you're at 5fps and is nice and smooth if you're at 30fps).
    • Fixed jagged edges when using GMA950.
    • Fixed high performance mode for GMA950. It's *significantly* quicker than older builds now, for this type of GPU.
    • High performance capture is now the default. Previous issues with the GMA950 (MacBook/Mini) and dual displays have been resolved.
    • Preferences modified - options to flush grab and select high performance have been removed.
    • Fixed messed up H264 encoding.
    • Frames are no longer quantized to duration boundaries (was causing dropped frames).
    • Fixed the "sound disappears after a while" bug, when Record System Audio is enabled.
    • Completely reworked timing system. It is now possible to record the iShowU menu itself (this was impossible using the previous method of frame timing, due to technical reasons).
    • You can now choose to use an alternate method to capture the mouse cursor. This can be set in Preferences.
    • Performance improvements for machines using the Intel GMA 950 chipset (older Mac Mini and Macbooks).
    • You can choose if you want mouse clicks on all the time, or only if you're holding down certain special keys (shift, alt/option etc). See preferences.
    • The "mono" option has been removed (now all microphone audio is automatically recorded as mono). The system audio track remains Stereo.
    • Soundflower updated to the official version 1.3.1. This should fix problems installing Soundflower on some hardware (notably PPC). This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
    • The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
    • Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
    • Some minor bug fixes
iShowU 1.60
1.60 (25 March 2008)
    Noteworthy changes
    • You now have the option to record left and right clicks in the video.
    Changes
    • You can now choose to use an alternate method to capture the mouse cursor. This can be set in Preferences.
    • Performance improvements for machines using the Intel GMA 950 chipset (older Mac Mini and Macbooks).
    • You can choose if you want mouse clicks on all the time, or only if you're holding down certain special keys (shift, alt/option etc). See preferences.
    • The "mono" option has been removed (now all microphone audio is automatically recorded as mono). The system audio track remains Stereo.
    • Soundflower updated to the official version 1.3.1. This should fix problems installing soundflower on some hardware (notably PPC). This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
    • The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
    • Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
    • Some minor bug fixes
iShowU 1.59
1.59 (10 March 2008)
    Changes
    • Soundflower updated to the official version 1.3.1. This should fix problems installing soundflower on some hardware (notably PPC). This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
    • The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
    • Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
iShowU 1.58
1.58 (28 February 2008)
    Changes
    • Soundflower updated to version 1.3 (with a fix). There was a bug in the driver which prevented it from working on PPC systems (it worked fine if you had an Intel machine), this has now been fixed. This version will sit in test for a little while to ensure that it works for everyone.
iShowU 1.57
1.57 (16 February 2008)
    Changes
    • Soundflower updated to version 1.3. This time I even copied the right Soundflower.kext (the 1.3 version) into the bundle, so that it does install 1.3 and not 1.2.
iShowU 1.56
1.56 (09 February 2008)
    Changes
    • Soundflower updated to version 1.3. This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
    • The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
    • Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
iShowU 1.55
1.55 (04 January 2008)
    Fixes
    • Fixed a memory leak that could cause a crash after 10+ hours of recording.
    • Fixed incorrect audio (left/right) balance when "Record system audio" is enabled.
    Changes
    • Reworked all presets. Most now use Apple Animation (generally better for performance), added a preset for WoW that uses Apple Intermediate (if available) or Apple Animation with a slightly reduced frame rate if AIC isn't present. Presets are now included for iMovie HD, iMovie and YouTube / Blip.TV. If the FCP uncompressed codecs are present, then presets are created for these as well. Note: The new presets will only appear for new users. If you want you can reset your existing presets (see the Edit menu), but this will erase your existing presets.
    • Sorting for descriptors is now case insensitive (generally makes more sense).
    • Default microphone and system audio volumes are now 100%.
iShowU 1.54
1.54 (30 November 2007)
    Fixes
    • Fixed the registration "ask for help" feature.
    Changes
    • Auto updating mechanisms updated.
iShowU 1.53
1.53 (24 November 2007)
    Fixes
    • Fixed the issue causing iShowU to fail to load on 10.4.8 or earlier. Was due to a project build issue switching from Tiger to Leopard. No code changes were made.
iShowU 1.52
1.52 (12 November 2007)
    Changes
    • Added the ability to specify a custom scaling size for captured video.
iShowU 1.51
1.51 (05 November 2007)
    Changes
    • Fixed bug whereby hitting the shortcut to record again would corrupt an existing recording if one was in progress.
    • Fixed a bug whereby some older migrated preferences wouldn't work (which would cause other things in the UI to fail silently).