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Synergy - 1.2

iTunes menubar control, hotkeys, cover art downloads

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 1.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.2
Release Date:	2004-08-28
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.2):	2,151
Downloads (all versions):	165,201
Price:	$5.00

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Product Description:

Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. Synergy can display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu. Synergy is only $5 (USD).

Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar. It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers (automatically downloaded by Synergy, or embedded in the tracks by iTunes) and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.

An online tour is available to take you through Synergy's features.

What's new in this version:

[Feature] Total overhaul of the button set system. Prior versions embedded button sets within the Synergy package. Version 1.2 embeds only two sets, "Safari" and "Safari Aqua", and for other sets looks in "~/Library/Application Support/Synergy/Button Sets/" (for the current user only) and "/Library/Application Support/Synergy/Button Sets/" (for all users on the machine). This means users can easily add, remove or rename sets. The sets themselves are package folders with an extension of "synergyButtons". Users can double-click on a set in the Finder and Synergy will automatically switch to that button set and copy it into "~/Library/Application Support/Synergy/Button Sets/", if possible. (Note that the user must run Synergy 1.2 once before this functionality will take effect, so as to register the file extension with Mac OS X Launch Services.) In the future, no more button sets will be added to the Synergy bundle itself; rather they will be distributed as separate, downloadable package(s).
[Feature] Additional choice (1) in the "Show recently played songs" section of the Global Menu.
[Feature] New button sets: "TigerBlue", "TigerGrey", "TigerWhite" by Henning Kanemann; "Fish" by The Fishman; "Hark" by Hark; "Panther" by Piotr Gajos; and "TigerHand Aqua" and "TigerHand Graphite" by Chris Messina.
[Feature] Internal optimizations and speed enhancements.
[Enhancement] Improvements to installation scripts allowing for more fine grained selection of what is installed/uninstalled.
[Enhancement] If automatic version checking is turned on, Synergy only shows one reminder per version (instead of showing a reminder on each launch).
[Bugfix] Fixed long-standing, but functional, mislabelling of the notifications used to communicate between the Synergy background application and the Synergy preference pane.
[Bugfix] Fixed error in installer script that was preventing login items from being updated for those users who chose to start Synergy at login.
[Bugfix] Fixed issued with the Revert and Defaults buttons in the preferences (changes were correctly modified on disk and/or in memory, but were not visually reflected in the preview of the Synergy menu bar buttons inside the Menu Bar tab of the preferences).
[Bugfix] Conducted extensive audit of entire codebase (32,000 lines) and found and fixed multiple memory leaks.
[Note] Trimmed download size by replacing embedded documentation with a link to the Synergy website; the material in the embedded documentation has always been and continues to be available online.
[Note] Qualified for use on Mac OS X 10.3.5.
[Note] Built using the latest version of Apple's Xcode tools (1.5).

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Wincent, very unfair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Version: 4.1.1b, 10/22/2009 05:16PM PST

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I've purchased Synergy with 'free updates for a lifetime!' (your terms) long time ago. I don't see why I should pay for a version with no new features. 3.4 and 3.5 never worked flawlessly and now I have to pay for 4.0? No thanks. Good bye, I switch to Tune•Instructor (it's FREEE). A disappointed customer

Snow Leopard ONLY!!! - Version: 4.1, 10/6/2009 07:16PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

RussA--2008

The description says it is for 10.5 and later. The program will in actuality require 10.6 or later. Please fix this.

Uncool - Version: 4.0.1, 9/10/2009 10:18AM PST