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I've just released MondoMouse 1.4.2. This version makes two changes:

• MondoMouse will not make "choose application" windows appear anymore. This has been happening on Leopard systems, when MondoMouse works with certain applications (e.g. OmniGraffle Professional).
• If a window can't be resized, and "highlight windows being moved or resized" is turned on in MondoMouse preferences, the window will be highlighted in red to make it easier to tell what's going on. Thanks to Brian Cooke for suggesting this.

This upgrade is free to all registered users of MondoMouse. If you already have MondoMouse, the best way to get it is to use MondoMouse's "check for updates" button, or else just wait for MondoMouse to check automatically.

Otherwise, you can download the new version here.

• Download MondoMouse 1.4.2 (1.1MB)

According to numbers sent in by Sparkle, Leopard usage among people using my software has just passed 50%, just over 7 weeks after Leopard's release. The most recent numbers show 51.9% on 10.5 (49.7% on 10.5.1 and the rest still inexplicably sticking with 10.5). The plot below also shows a solid 40% sticking with 10.4.11 for now.

I'm waiting to see what sudden changes might occur after Christmas, or possibly after MacWorld next month. Either could mean a lot of new Macs replacing or supplementing old ones.

The latest numbers from Sparkle can always be found on the Sparkle Stats page, which is automatically updated every night.

Yesterday Atomic Bird was one of the featured developers at MacSanta. It went well. It was the first day of MacSanta and I was concerned that not many people would have heard about it yet. As it turned out, well, I don't release specific sales numbers but yesterday's MacSanta customers here at Atomic Bird came to more than 90% of the number of MacSanta customers last year. Last year of course MacSanta ran for about a week, with all developers listed every day. So I'd call MacSanta a smash success already, and it's still just December 2.

And it's still going

Although Atomic Bird isn't the daily featured developer, MacSanta deals continue for the rest of the month. You can find Atomic Bird on the participants list where everyone who's participated in MacSanta so far will be offering discounts all month. Just use coupon code MACSANTA07TEN. And of course there are new featured developers on the main MacSanta page every day in December.

The MacSanta promotion is back for a second year!

For the month of December, independent Mac software developers will be offering special deals on their software through the MacSanta web site at MacSantaDeals.com. Every day new developers will be featured, offering 20% off of their software for that day, using coupon code MACSANTA07 when purchasing. After their featured day they will continue to offer 10% off through the end of the month using coupon code MACSANTA07TEN.

Atomic Bird is featured December 1

We drew the very first day, so on Saturday December 1, all of our software will be 20% off with coupon code MACSANTA07. That code can be used in our web store, but be sure and visit the MacSantaDeals.com web site to see what else is available. After December 1 the coupon code MACSANTA07TEN can be used for the rest of the month.

Thanks

The MacSanta promotion is run by Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba, who does all the work on a volunteer basis. Most of the participants also volunteer to buy Paul a beer if we ever meet in person.

Last week I posted my first public SparklePlus data. Starting today, SparklePlus charts can be found on my Sparkle Stats page, updated nightly.

I've improved the charting system over the past couple of days to provide more detail than the charts in my previous blog post. Instead of just gathering up each week's data into a single value, the new plots include daily totals for the previous 60 days. Each day's numbers are a running average of the previous seven days, to smooth out daily variations into more comprehensible trends. I'm not sure that a seven-day running total is the best window, so I may experiment with longer or shorter windows and see what happens.

As of today Leopard has reached 45.6% of users, not quite a majority yet but closing in fast.