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• May 1, 2008
• JBidwatcher 2.0beta3

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JBidwatcher, reviewed in the November 2004 MacWorld, has received a 4 mouse product rating from the Macintosh experts at Macworld.
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JBidwatcher 2.0 beta 2

Visible 2.0 features include:

• A tab menu in the menu bar for configuring your tabs
• An activity and log viewer (rudimentary right now)
• A parameter for both running on a USB drive, and multiple users
• A light freshening of the UI through new icons and other small changes
• Links to related web tools (forums, for example)
• Platform-specific features (Installer on Windows, new UI library on OS X)
• There's a 'Test Login' button on the eBay configuration tab!
• A clear indicator of current login status in the toolbar
• A thumbnail column
• Indian Rupee support
• Much better parsing, including fixes for most major current problems

A few of the things fixed since the first alpha:

• Per-item events should be preserved between runs
• Comments and 'valid' status should be preserved between runs
• Always focus on the text field when for the 'Add Auction' dialog
• A better icon indicating there was a problem loading an item
• Recognize 'button' tags as input tags, improving login consistency
• Thumbnails are being loaded
• 'Report Bug' goes to the Lighthouse page now
• The eBay server menu is back
• better non-English character support
• preserving the currency of items correctly between runs
• remembering snipes between runs
• retrieving and displaying shipping and location information
• recognize deleted items versus items that we're having network trouble loading
• recognizing the latest 'image not present' thumbnail
• fixing the 'Buy' operation
• supporting Indian Rupees
• preserve last bid and last bid quantity between runs
• visibly sort tables correctly on first display so the rows aren't in an inconsistent state
• sped up 'shut down' for large auction collections
• fix column headers which had been broken by a well-intentioned fix for Vista

Under the hood:

• I've added a database where all auction information is stored
• There's scripting support, waiting to be used
• The source code has been heavily refactored for easier development
• If you set 'logging.remote' to 'true' in the advanced config, it'll report exceptions to my server directly.

Things that are still not quite right:

• No UI for enabling exception logging to my server (for debugging)
• Minimum bids on Dutch/Power Auction listings are off a little
• The Custom Columns popup menu sometimes doesn't pop up (especially after an upgrade)
• Log viewing doesn't refresh
• Sniping repeatedly retries if the bid is below what eBay accepts
• Deleting a large number of items at once might raise a higher CPU load than usual
• Vista's column headers look terrible