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v2.1b1 (September 5 2011): - new design to be firewall friendly. Simply add the aparedir helper application located in the helper folder to the allowed applications in the Firewall) - fix an issue with firewall detection on non Lion systems To run this new version simply drop the AirPrintActivator folder in the Applications folder and run it. Grab your copy from the main AirPrintActivator 2 page. Quick note about the new release of AirPrint Activator 2.0b16. This new release changes the following: v2.0b16 (August 13 2011): - newly compiled under XCode 4.1.1 - added a new warning window that let you know if the OSX Firewall is on and what consequence this might have on APA2 If AirPrint Activator is working fine for you then no need to upgrade. If you do upgrade from a previous v2.0bX release simple run the new version, turn AirPrint OFF and then back ON again. That is it. You can download the latest copy in the main page of AirPrint Activator V2.0. I was checking if the new Nuance voices part of OSX Lion where still unavailable… to my surprise the Karen voice started downloading… Is Apple preparing for the release of Lion soon… maybe as soon as tomorrow… as some have speculated based on the new Apple Store 2.0 large download size… This would be another possible sign of the imminent launch of OSX Lion! Here is a sample of the voice reading the text above this line: karen fiona Here are two samples for the French Canadian voices: julie felix Last week-end I discovered that one of my prefered feature of Lion beta is now gone from the latest Preview 3 beta. I can’t tell for sure if the feature was removed in Preview 3 or if it was removed in Preview 2… but one thing for sure… it is gone and I already miss it. The feature I am talking about was allowing you to connect to a remote Mac via Screen Sharing and be offered the option of connecting to a new virtual display:
This was allowing me to test Xcode while my wife would surf the web on the new iMac. Now I can’t anymore. I hope that Apple will bring the feature back in a next Preview release… or to find a way to re-enable the now disabled feature. I will miss you Screen Sharing connect to a virtual display! UPDATE 2: Just to clarify something. Some site are wrongfully reporting that those voices where added by Apple in Lion’s preview 3. This is not true. The voice samples where there with the 1st preview. I did NOT discovered the voices. Those where found way back when Preview 1 was released. What I discovered today is that that those voice samples where in fact the same voices that Nuance used to sell in their RealSpeak product. Those voices are NOT actually usable just yet in Lion. You get an error message when Lion is trying to install them. They are most likely missing either from the installation package or missing from Apple’s update servers. I hope this clarifies things up a bit. UPDATE 1: Apparently the RealSpeak application is now called Vocalizer. You can find it here! Thank you Örjan for pointing this out! You will find a demo of the voice and I must say that they sound identical to the Apple’s voice demo in Lion! —— Here is something I discovered while listening to the new voices sample in OSX Lion. They are a perfect match to those that used to be part of Nuance RealSpeak Solo product… Now, the thing is that Nuance RealSpeak Solo is no more to be found on their web sites… how strange is that.
You can still find samples of the various voices at sites like the following. The voice samples in Lion sound a bit better than the older samples from Nuance… but one can easily link the two together. You can also still get some live samples from Nuance by registering an account at the following link: http://212.8.184.250/tts/demo_login.jsp
I don’t know if the links above will stay up very long but have a try while it last! This is more proof that Apple is certainly licensing Nuance products to use in the next OSX Lion. There is still a chance that they will pull it out before the GM release… The new voices in Lion still don’t install properly (as of Preview 3)… Apple might have wanted to delay the distribution of those voices or they simply have not completed to cross all T and dot all i in the contract. Here is a small update to AirPrint Activator. This new version fix a bug with long printer names that would exceed the maximum Bonjour name length resulting in a failure to advertise the printers. As usual you can grab a copy from the main AirPrint Activator page. Short post about the release of AirPrint Activator (APA) v2.0b13.
What is new in this release?
That is it for now! I just released a new version of AirPrint Activator (APA). This new release add a new advanced setting that allow users to only share local printers (like APA v2.0b1 to v2.0b9 did). This allow users to stop the advertisement of non locally shared printers.
This new version also changes how the local hostname is validated against the advertised printer record. This should help fix some of the issues reported by a few users. Last, I moved some code around to make it cleaner. You can grab a copy of this new version by going on the main APA v2 page right here. For suport head over the forum.
It’s only been a day since I released v2.0b9 but I fixed an important limitation present in that (and all previous) version… so here is the improved APA v2.0b10. This new version resolve an issue that some of you might have encountered where a printer with a long name will refuse to be shared… If the name of the printer is too long (more that 63 characters after adding the AirPrint prefix) it would fail to be advertise. This is not the case anymore. I now truncate the name to fit within the limit of Bonjour service advertisement. You can grab a copy of this new version by going on the main APA v2 page right here. I also revamped the main page a bit to focus on the strong points of the application! For suport head over the forum. |
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