System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.2 or later
• Mac OS X 10.3 or later for iPhoto or QuickTime image sources
• An Internet connection for access to flickr or Google Images

• Now compatible with Leopard.
• Newly found images now "zoom" into place.
• Image sources can now be designated as "filler".
• Saving mosaics as very large images is now handled more gracefully.
• Handling of EPS images is improved.

• Folder image sources no longer reset when a mosaic project is re-opened.
• Symbolic links are now handled correctly by Folder image sources.
• Searching for flickr photos that match all of the given tags now works correctly.
• Google images sources are working again when running on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
• Google images sources now load correctly when a mosaic project is re-opened.
• QuickTime image sources now behave better.
• No longer crashing when using red-, green- or bluescale colors with a Glyphs image source.
• No longer crashing when getting the count of matching photos from flickr.
• No longer crashing when an invalid image is chosen as the original.
• No longer crashing when double-clicking the hand-picked image source.
• No longer crashing at some point after editing an image source.
• No longer crashing on quit when there is an unsaved Glyphs image source.
• No longer crashing when clicking in the menu bar when no windows are open.
• Many memory leaks were fixed.

• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.

• Google image sources are now working again.
• Certain QuickTime movies no longer cause log files to fill up disk space.

• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.

• Improved user interface.
• MacOSaiX is now universal and will run on Intel-based Macs.
• Yahoo's flickr photo-sharing service can now be searched for images.
• Mosaics can now be viewed full screen.
• A new kiosk mode is available.
• Added display options for the background of mosaics.
• Brought back and improved the puzzle piece tile shapes.
• The image crop limit can now be disabled.
• Autosaving can now be disabled.
• Mosaics can now be saved as PNG files.
• The resolution can now be set when saving as an JPEG, PNG or TIFF file.
• Mosaics can now be saved as web pages:
• A pop-up window follows the mouse and shows image detail.
• Live links to flickr images.
• The size of the Google and flickr disk caches can now be customized.

• The original image and tile shapes controls no longer disable once a mosaic has started.
• The tile shapes and image source sheets are no longer the wrong size.
• Tiles are no longer black sometimes after opening a saved mosaic or removing an image source.

• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.

• Images for tiles con now be hand picked.
• You can now fade between the original image the mosaic both on screen and in exported images.
• Selecting one or more image sources now highlights the tiles using images from those sources.
• Images that will be cropped more than a certain amount can now be filtered out.

• Choosing an iPhoto album or keyword by clicking on the radio buttons now works correctly.
• Fixed crash when using iPhoto image sources.
• Fixed display problem when zooming.
• Fixed memory leak in image cache.

• Puzzle piece tiles
• The quality measurement in the status bar

• The original image and tile shapes controls disable once a mosaic has started.
• The tile shapes and image source sheets can be the wrong size.
• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.
• After opening a saved mosaic or removing an image source some tiles may be black. Resizing the window causes the tiles to be drawn correctly.

• Integrated crash reporter
• New preference to choose whether or not mosaics start once an image source has been added

• Auto-save is now disabled during exporting to avoid conflict that causes export to fail.
• Intermittent crash when "Each image may appear" setting was not "once" or "any number of times".
• Documents saved after removing an image source can now be opened successfully.

• Puzzle piece tiles
• Manually choosing which image to use for a tile
• The quality measurement in the status bar

• The original image and tile shapes controls disable once a mosaic has started.
• The tile shapes and image source sheets can be the wrong size.
• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.
• After opening a saved mosaic or removing an image source some tiles may be black. Resizing the window causes the tiles to be drawn correctly.

• iPhoto integration
• Glyphs image source is back

• Google color space option now works correctly
• Tile shapes and image source sheets now resize correctly
• Various crashing bugs

• Puzzle piece tiles
• Manually choosing which image to use for a tile
• The quality measurement in the status bar

• The original image and tile shapes controls disable once a mosaic has started.
• The tile shapes and image source sheets can be the wrong size.
• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.
• After opening a saved mosaic or removing an image source some tiles may be black. Resizing the window causes the tiles to be drawn correctly.

• Simplified user interface
• Saving works again
• Saved mosaics are now in XML format
• Google Image Search is back!
• Support for most features of Google's advanced image search
• Google images are now cached locally for better performance
• Local image files no longer need to have a file extension to be found
• Mosaics can now be up to 200x200 tiles.
• Images can now be used an exact number of times (once, twice, etc.)
• Changing the number of tiles no longer takes forever
• MacOSaiX now checks for updates at launch (can be disabled in prefs)
• Image sources can now be removed from a mosaic
• Improved status messages
• Zooming works again
• The size of tiles is now shown (3x5, 4x6, etc.)

• Puzzle piece tiles
• Glyph image source
• Manually choosing which image to use for a tile
• The quality measurement in the status bar

• The original image and tile shapes controls disable once a mosaic has started.
• The tile shapes and image source sheets can be the wrong size.
• Hiding the status bar is not working.
• Zooming the window causes it to jump around.
• After opening a saved mosaic or removing an image source some tiles may be black. Resizing the window causes the tiles to be drawn correctly.
• The Google Image Search sometimes using the wrong color space, e.g. "Grayscale" instead of "Color".

• Mosaics can now be up to 100x100 tiles.
• Images can now be used multiple times as determined by a user setting. Tiles can be clicked on to show their unique neighborhood.
• Images can now be pulled from QuickTime movies.
• Improved thread management which allows mosaics to run faster.

• Changing the tile settings when the neighborhood size is large is really slow. If you want to use a lot of tiles turn the neighborhood size to 1 before increasing the tile count and set it back afterwards.
• The user interface becomes very slugish when using a QuickTime image source.
• Saving, preferences and removal of image sources are disabled.
• The Google and glyph image sources are not available.
• The editor is not working.
• The quality measurement in the status bar is always 0%.
• The first click on a tile does not show its neighboring tiles. Clicking the same tile a second time shows the neighbors.

• Under Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2), MacOSaiX no longer crashes on reaching the last image in a local image source.

• The code that determines what glyphs in a font are valid is now consistent. Previously, certain glyphs were initially considered valid but then failed to load during export or re-opening a document, resulting in black/empty squares in the mosaic image.
• The OK and Cancel buttons are now functional when adding a Google term in the prefences window.
• A rare bug in parsing results from Google Images has been fixed.
• If an image (from any kind of image source) can not be loaded during matching, a crash no longer occurs.
• Changing the format of an exported image now properly sets the extension of the file name.