Linkinus Blog

As most of you know, the new Linkinus 1.3 will soon be released to the world. Boasting tons of new features and numerous bug fixes, this is one of the biggest releases we have ever put out. We want to walk through some of the new changes coming in a series we are calling “The Road to 1.3″. Without further ado, here is the first post in the series.

Linkinus gets a facelift. 

The first thing most of you will notice is our new user interface. Optimized with Leopard in mind, we have worked extremely hard to make your experience with Linkinus seamlessly integrate with the rest of Mac OS X. Drawing all the similar concepts you are used from applications like Apple Mail, iTunes, and Finder, we feel you will feel quite comfortable when using the new user interface. In the next article we will be discussing all the new UI elements in further, until then just know that you are in for a treat.

Performance enhancements

We know how important it is that your IRC client take the least possible amount of resources, so we have worked extensively on reducing resource footprint while increasing speed and reliability. You will be delighted at the response you get from this new version.

Multitasking to the max. 

I think most of us have experienced this scenario before, you are on multiple IRC networks in the same channel or in similar channels on the same network and you want to keep on top of what is happening in both. Right now, you are flipping back and forth when you see the new message badge; how clumsy is that? What if you could combine multiple chat windows and view the chats at the same time? With Linkinus 1.3’s Combined View this is possible. Simple select multiple channels or queries and they are automatically combined into a single interface. More on this in a later article as well.

All your logs are belong to us. 

New in 1.3 is a plain-text logging option for supreme compatibility and readability. To maximize the benefit of your logs, we’ve added Spotlight integration and indexing so you can search for any piece of text in your IRC logs via an interface you are already familiar with. Since Apple just got it right with Spotlight, we’ve removed our half-baked log viewer.

Autocompletion, the way you wanted it. 

One of the most user-requested features is the improved autocompletion feature. You can now use tab to cycle through nicknames, channels, and commands and use the spacebar to accept your choice. This is a little change, but makes a huge difference!

You won’t believe how much more we’ve packed into this thing! 

There are many more features in the upcoming version, in the next few days you will see more in this series of articles with in-depth looks at all the majors. We can’t wait to unleash this amazing revision of your favorite IRC client, stay tuned.