Many people love TaskBlaze. But admittedly, there are some headaches. Those who use the old Beta version know it’s got some bugs. Although it looks simple, there’s a lot of coding that went into building it.
Default Skin
Well, I’ve been burning the midnight oil on the latest version. It fixes a lot of bugs and introduces new features too. I am tidying up a few things and then will post a beta in a few days.
Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come:
- Post what you are doing to Twitter – Feeling social? You can now Tweet what you are doing via TaskBlaze! When you start a new task, your you can set it so your task-tweet automatically gets posted to Twitter. Integration with Facebook and other services on the way.
- New Timer Engine – I rebuilt the timing engine so it is much more reliable, easier to understand, and more bulletproof.
- Improved skinning – Those of you who like customizing TaskBlaze can now go hog wild. Skinning is now “folder based.” That means pop your skin into a folder and pick it from a dropdown. You can have as many different skins as you want.
Left4Dead Smoker Skin
- No more textbox clutter – Want to see your skin? The Textboxes now hide to display your task, tags and other relevant info.
- Font color picker – Choose the color of the fonts displayed in Taskblaze.
- 30 Second Throbber - What’s a throbber? In the case of TaskBlaze, it is a ‘blink’ of your main button to catch your attention and remind you to stay on task. Many wanted this feature. It’s in the new beta.
- Display optimized for older PCs – There was a display headache with older PCs where Taskblaze would look funky. This newly optimized display works for those PCs.
- Send to a friend – Many of you indicated you wanted an easier way to share the pleasures of TaskBlaze. Now with the click of a button, TaskBlaze will create you an email that you can customize and send the download link to your friends.
Blueblazin’ Skin
I am especially thrilled with the Twitter posting abilities of the new version. Where Twitter asks “What are you doing now”. With TaskBlaze you can tell people really what you are doing and track it at the same time. 
So check the blog in a few days and I’ll have a new Beta ready for download.
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thanks, i already awaitet it comes back. it’s one of my favourite tools. nice you share it with others, i don’t want to miss it.
i musing ti now for the first time and must say it looks for the first very simple and useful, first steps i made were easy.
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