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Hey guys. With the release of 1.3 we want to make sure everyone knows about it. Please show your support by letting others know you use Linkinus by using iusethis. Thanks guys!

This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! This is a free upgrade to all 1.x users, enjoy! For those of you who would like to view the release notes, you can see them here. 

The update is available to our current users via the “Check for Updates…” menu item, or you can download it from our website.

Reminder:  Please check back soon for a more in-depth review of the new features brought to you in 1.3 in our Road to 1.3 series.

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.

It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve given any news about Linkinus development, so here goes:

Linkinus 1.3 is coming together quite nicely. It brings to the table a GUI redesign, a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as some of the most requested features ever.

To name a few, it is now possible to:

• Automatically reconnect to servers after being disconnected
• Select multiple channels/queries for simultaneous viewing
• Cycle through auto-completions using the tab key repeatedly
• Right-click a nickname in the channel view and be presented with a context menu

On a related note, the Agent/UI architecture is still present, and we have worked around the bug faced by Logitech drivers’ users.
To keep you waiting a bit longer, here is a partial screenshot of the revamped user interface. As you can see, one of the goals was Leopard integration, but it is still Tiger compatible (of course!).

Linkinus 1.3 will be a free upgrade to all 1.x full-license holders.

- nl

Dear All,
I’m happy to announce the release of Linkinus 1.2.2.
All users are encouraged to update and a list of new features and bugfixes can be found in the Notes section.
 - nl 

Linkinus 1.2.1 has just been released.

It adds message encryption support, improved Leopard integration, better sounds. It also adds /omsg and /onotice support, fixes a couple of CTCP, introduces new tooltips and a new Keyboard preference pane.

Please note that this 1.2.1 version is *not* part of the Linkinus 1.1-only free licenses.

We hope that you will enjoy this new release. As always, comments and suggestions go to the development site!

Hey

As Jago pointed out, there has not been a public Linkinus update in nearly 3 months. Betatesters however have enjoyed many a nightly Linkinus build.

With Leopard coming soon, I feel it is time to stop testing and publicly update Linkinus. Version 1.1 already worked fine on Leopard seeds but a few visual glitches remained that needed to be fixed.

I am therefore glad to announce that Linkinus 1.2 will be available on this website and all over the Web tomorrow Thursday, October 25.

It will be a free update to everybody. I hope this post clears things up for many users who want to update to Leopard on the very day it is released (October 26) and were not sure if Linkinus and Leopard would shake hands.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated, so please do not hesitate to drop me an email anytime.

Cheers!

Nicolas

Hello again!

It’s always nice to have an  excuse to write something, and this time, it’s because our good friends at MacZOT are featuring Linkinus tomorrow (8/10/2007) at the amazing price of $12.99/license! These are full, 1.x licenses, as well, so for those of you who have 1.1.x licenses (the free ones,) this is a great opportunity to buy into the pure IRC ecstasy* that is Linkinus. Remember, though, that the sale will only last 24 hours, so be quick about it!

In other news, a user asked me today if localized versions of Linkinus were on their way. The answer is yes! Starting with 1.1.1, Linkinus is fully localizable. At this moment in time, we have English and French localizations, with the possibility of Italian, German, Arabic, and Swedish coming in the next release. If you’d like to localize Linkinus into your language, please, feel free to email us at support@linkinus.com with the language you’d like to translate Linkinus into!

Anyway, be sure take advantage of the MacZOT sale to save yourself some $$$!

*may be a lie

Hey People!

I thought I’d drop by with an update on what’s been going down in the Linkinus Camp.

Work on 1.1.1 continues, and it’s shaping up to be a great release! In addition to fixing some serious bugs, it adds some nice new features that people have been asking for. For instance, nick coloring has been implemented, allowing Linkinus to assign a different color to each name in the chat window, to help you better follow the conversation. There’s much more planned, and you can view the progress of 1.1.1 at http://dev.linkinus.com.

Macheist is over, and it was an unqualified success! We gained over seven thousand (!!) new licensees, and gave out an additional six thousand free licenses!! That’s potentially over thirteen thousand new users! As I’m sure you can tell, we’re ecstatic. If you’re one of our new users, please, feel free to drop by our IRC channel and say Hello!

Ciao!

Hey guys!

Well, it’s been a crazy week so far at the Linkinus production farms. After negotiating with those zany folks at Macheist, we managed to squeeze our way into their new bundle at the very last minute. Everyone who now buys the MacHeist bundle gets a full license for Linkinus 1.x. Rejoice!

But that’s not all. How could we make ourselves look even more completely insane? Maybe… give away 20,000 copies of Linkinus 1.1 (and 1.1.x upgrades) for free? Yeah, that’d do it. So we did it. Now, remember, these free licenses are ONLY good for Linkinus 1.1 and 1.1.x upgrades. 1.2 will cost you $20. Still, I’d say it was a pretty schweet dealio. To get your license, just scroll to the bottom of the page page and give us your first and last name, and your email address, and it’ll be sent to you shortly.

If you’ve decided already that Linkinus is SO awesome that you simply MUST have all the upgrades until 2.0 (and who could blame you, really,) you can purchase a full license for $20, or pick it up as part of the MacHeist Bundle for $50! That will entitle you to upgrades until 2.0.

Peace out.