Posted by on under bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock | 
Apologies for being so silent over the past weeks. There are no real excuses, other than being totally swamped with various work on all fronts that we've been doing... and hopefully you'll be able to see them soon.
Now, what's new?
Installer 4.0b8 is out (it's been ready for a while and even included in the last PwnageTool but we were holding off to releasing it publically). Among notable features is the switch to libcurl from the stock Foundation URL loading classes, which means more lightweight CPU and memory footprint and, more importantly, resumable file transfers. The new beta also features a plethora of little fixes which we won't extensively list here. Enjoy. We'll be pushing out a 4.0 release soonish...
The featured page you see when you launch Installer is actually automatically generated based on the popularity of the packages (based on the number of installations across the board), so it's nothing like the "old" featured page that listed a set of pre-defined products. It will eventually have some "sponsored" products, but they will be easily distinguishable visually and we'll try to keep the amount of these to the minimum - no more than 3.
Community Sources are updated as well to reflect the change in the modmyi.com domain name and to remove some outdated sources that shown promise but actually never delivered anything.
Kate update been out for a while, and we're finally at adding new features to it - so look for a non-bugfix release in the near future.
If you're a software publisher and would like to be hosted in Installer - please
let us know and we'll do all the work for creating proper install scripts and hosting on our server (which has a few spare terabytes of bandwidth).
Moreover, thank you for staying with us and supporting us along the way - it couldn't been done without you!
Tagi: bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock
Posted by on under bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock |
Apologies for being so silent over the past weeks. There are no real excuses, other than being totally swamped with various work on all fronts that we've been doing... and hopefully you'll be able to see them soon.
Now, what's new?
Installer 4.0b8 is out (it's been ready for a while and even included in the last PwnageTool but we were holding off to releasing it publically). Among notable features is the switch to libcurl from the stock Foundation URL loading classes, which means more lightweight CPU and memory footprint and, more importantly, resumable file transfers. The new beta also features a plethora of little fixes which we won't extensively list here. Enjoy. We'll be pushing out a 4.0 release soonish...
The featured page you see when you launch Installer is actually automatically generated based on the popularity of the packages (based on the number of installations across the board), so it's nothing like the "old" featured page that listed a set of pre-defined products. It will eventually have some "sponsored" products, but they will be easily distinguishable visually and we'll try to keep the amount of these to the minimum - no more than 3.
Community Sources are updated as well to reflect the change in the modmyi.com domain name and to remove some outdated sources that shown promise but actually never delivered anything.
Kate update been out for a while, and we're finally at adding new features to it - so look for a non-bugfix release in the near future.
If you're a software publisher and would like to be hosted in Installer - please
let us know and we'll do all the work for creating proper install scripts and hosting on our server (which has a few spare terabytes of bandwidth).
Moreover, thank you for staying with us and supporting us along the way - it couldn't been done without you!
Tagi: bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock
Posted by on under tool barn, free t shirts, northern tool, interview article, www tools, poker game, rsquo, internet retailers, tool king, 1890s, power tool, riverboat, hand tools, power tools, goat, gems, price compar, nbsp, domain name, earth |
Price comparison websites are not new by any means however www.Tools.com is the first I know that was specifically built for power tools, hand tools and accessories. There is a large selection of participating internet retailers such as Northern Tool, Amazon, Tool Barn, Tool King, Ohio Power Tool, CPO sites, and several others. The site claims over 90,000 tools from 500 brands. Since the site is still fairly new the reviews haven’t gotten filled in on many of the products yet (only 125 total thus far) but I am pretty confident over time these will be a really good resource for unbiased reviews. Perhaps they should give away Free T-shirts when you write 5 reviews like www.ToolCritic.com.
If you want to learn more about the back story for Tools.com there is a great interview article on www.ToolSnob.com. Here are just a few gems that you will find in the full post on ToolSnob:
How on earth did you manage to score that URL?
There are two stories. One is that we won it on a riverboat poker game from Mr. Tools in the late 1890s. The second one is that our partners owned the domain name and approached us with it.
If Tools.com was an animal, which one would it be and why?
A goat. Because their needs are so simple but they give so much - just like Tools.com. You know?
Tagi: tool barn, free t shirts, northern tool, interview article, www tools, poker game, rsquo, internet retailers, tool king, 1890s, power tool, riverboat, hand tools, power tools, goat, gems, price compar, nbsp, domain name, earth
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