BikeBlog

Looking for a way to record and share your biking adventures? Try BikeBlog! BikeBlog allows you to define all the routes you commonly bike on, and easily blog about every ride you do. It helps keep track of how long you were biking, how far you went, and what you did and saw. And when you're all done, publish your BikeBlog to your .Mac account, or your hard drive.

Click here to see what a published BikeBlog looks like

A Note About Keychain Requests
I've gotten a few questions about why BikeBlog requests access to the user's keychain when it first starts up. When BikeBlog starts,
it access the .Mac System Preference to ascertain whether or not there's a valid .Mac account available. BikeBlog needs to know this
so that it can properly enable or disable the option to publish to your .Mac account.

The BikeBlog application itself never has direct access to your .Mac password. By using Apple's official .Mac interaction framework,
the system handles all the authentication. Rest assured, BikeBlog isn't stealing your .Mac password, and BikeBlog never stores
that password anywhere.

By giving BikeBlog permission to always access your keychain information, you won't have to deal with this request more than once.

Have you found a bug in BikeBlog? Report it to me, please.
Or do you just have a suggestion to make BikeBlog better? I like to hear those too.

Interested in BikeBlog? Download it now and give it a try!

BikeBlog 1.1 (4/22/2005, 2.3 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.4.x (should work with 10.3.x, but no longer actively tested)
What's new:
- The entries table is now sortable, and this order also sets order in published file.
- Added extra option to application preferences to warn before over-writing files.
- Added extra option to application preferences to not write stat info if value is 0 (ie: Max speed=0, don't print anything).
- Explicitly set ISO Latin-1 in the HTML file, and encode high-characters with '&' equivalents (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/latin1.html). (Lolof S.)
- Units (miles, KM) are based on user settings in International system pref.
- Number formatting (thousands and decimal separators) obeys user settings in International system pref
- Added toolbar icon for "Edit Entry"
- Made doc settings into a sheet, not a drawer, so they work better with smaller screens
- Fixed bug where routes that are left with no name behave badly when publish/preview is selected. Blank names revert back to a unique "New Route" name.
- Fixed bug where deleting a route that is assigned to one or more entries would leave that route name in that entry.
- Fixed bug where when adding a new route, that route is assigned to the first entry in the document.
- Fixed bug that allowed more than one route to have the same name.
- Fixed bug where changes in one open document would make other open documents think they had been updated as well.

BikeBlog 1.0.4 (6/24/2005, 1.6 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x
What's new:
- Added Report Bug and Send Suggestion items to "Help" menu. (Thomas S.)
- Added "Visit Web Page" item to "Help" menu. (Thomas S.)
- When a new version of BikeBlog is found, a list of what's new is displayed in the dialog box.
- Allow users to create new folders when chosing local publish directory.
- Editing an entry now sets the entry window title to the entry title.
- Fixed bug where subsiquent publishing to local disk may have reported an error copying the default image. (Thomas S.)
- Fixed bug where changing route name in doc settings will change any "No Route" entries to use the new name.
- Fixed bug where deleting an entry that was being edited wouldn't behave as expected.
- Fixed bug where choosing to edit an entry while editing another entry would replace data being edited with data from the entry selected to edit.

BikeBlog 1.0.3 (6/16/2005, 2.2 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x
What's new:
- Changed the document window behavior so 1024x768 screens can fully see the Document Settings drawer.
- Added web page to "About" box. (Thomas S.)
- Added auto-update checking and downloading. (Thomas S.)
- Fixed bug where route names that were changed wouldn't be updated in entries for that route.

BikeBlog 1.0.2 (5/6/2005, 1.3 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x
What's new:
- Fixed a bug where route pictures couldn't be added in OS X 10.4 the first time the application preferences was opened. Subsequent attempts would work. (Bill W.)
- Changed the default publishing directories for .Mac and local publishing from /Sites to /Sites/BikeBlog. (Bill W.)

BikeBlog 1.0.1 (5/3/2005, 1.6 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x
What's new:
- Fixed a bug where pictures couldn't be set for routes when running under OS X 10.4. (Thanks to Bill W. for reporting this one).
- Fixed bugs that could allow default "No Route" to be accidentally changed.
- When adding a route, it's now clearer that a new route was actually added, and the route name is highlighted for easier naming on creation.

BikeBlog 1.0 (5/1/2005, 1.1 megs)

System Requirements: OS X 10.3 to 10.3.9

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