Interarchy 10 upgrade8/26/2023 ![]() Keyboard Maestro 2 introduced many new Macro Triggers (such as Application, Time of Day, and so on), Macro Groups to allow easy control over when macros are active, and many new actions.ĭevelopment of Keyboard Maestro competed for resources with development of Interarchy until the latter was sold to lead developer Matthew Drayton in early 2007. ![]() Our aim was to resolve the outstanding issues with Keyboard Maestro and release 2.0 as soon as possible, which we did in September 2004. On Jthe deal was struck and Stairways Software acquired all the rights to Keyboard Maestro. When we learned that Michael was considering abandoning the application we offered to purchase it from him to ensure that we would not lose this valuable tool, as well as to continue the fine tradition that he had started. Keyboard Maestro languished for over a year as Michael found that he did not have the time or energy to continue development.Īround May 2004, we contacted Michael as a concerned user to query the long delay in the eagerly awaited 2.0 release. After that, life and work got in the way. The first beta of 2.0 was released in early 2003 and development continued until the 2.0b6 beta released in May 2003. Incorporating an impressively powerful hot key macro facility, as well as Application and Clipboard Switching facilities, it rapidly became an indispensable tool for many Mac OS X users, including us here at Stairways Software.ĭevelopment continued on version 1 through the end of 2002, and then work began on version 2. You can see the full set a bit larger on the Nolobe Blog here.īy the way, Nolobe (makers of Interarchy) are having an awesome Fire Sale right now, which is worth checking out.Following on the success of Application Switcher for Classic Mac OS, Michael Kamprath wrote Keyboard Maestro for Mac OS X and released it in early 2002. Matthew was awesome to work with, and we were both very happy with how the icons turned out. In the end we settled with the current, beautiful yet unassuming icon for the application, and with a few revisions and emails back and forth we arrived at an equally satisfying set of supporting icons for the application itself. And how about a cabinet resembling a Mac Pro? ![]() I did mockups of a thin-edge ‘full black’ cabinet and a pure aluminium one. I won’t bore you too much with the process of all the icons, but some of the concepts of the application icon are interesting to see. Interarchy is a powerful and feature-rich application, and making the icons beautiful, but also appealing to the target user base is a great bonus. This makes the icons appear very modern and advanced, very much in line with what we wanted to represent with the Interarchy icons. It’s also the set of colors and materials we consider typical of Apple’s latest generation of hardware. I think this could be a great theme: not too outspoken like icons that are bright blue and black, but a subtle kind of consistency that gives the icons an extra quality when used together. While I am not a huge fan of outspoken themes in icons for an application, the stylistic direction Matthew envisioned of aluminium / silver, black, and perhaps subtle desaturated colors summoned beautiful visions of icons in my head. Changing the icon now would mean neglecting its long history and evolution. Matthew also expressed his desire to maintain the filing cabinet metaphor in the application icon, and I agreed. Like several other FTP clients, Interarchy has always been known and discerned by its icon. This was no small release, so it had to be worth it. Matthew contacted me with a request for new icons for the big upcoming version 10. Interarchy is a Mac app that’s almost as old as I am: it was first created in 1993 as one of the first FTP clients for the Mac, and in 2007 it was sold to its current owner and long-time developer of Interarchy, Matthew Drayton of Nolobe.
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