ChecksQuick(TM) 3.2 is now available

ChecksQuick 3.2 is now available for download. Here is what's new:

- Check amounts of up to 99,999.99 can now be used.

- A new dropdown button on each Payment Card allows users to quickly jump to a specific card.

New Check Layout Option:

- Landscape feeding of checks is now supported on left and right-feeding printers through the addition of a y-Offset adjustment. Previously, landscape feeding was only supported on center-feeding printers.

This is a free upgrade for licensed users. For licensed Mac users, ChecksQuick 3.2 should automatically open in its licensed state.

Licensed Windows users will likely have to enter their username and license codes, since the location of Preferences had to be changed to allow for compatibility with Windows 7. To use your old Layout files, you will need to move them from the root directory where they currently reside to a special folder that depends on which version of Windows you are using. Contact the author for assistence, if needed.

Second beta of ChecksQuick 3.2

A second beta of ChecksQuick 3.2 is now available for download. In addition to supporting non-center-feeding printers to feed checks in landscape orientation, beta 2 adds support for checks of greater than $9999.99. Not that I routinely write checks for more than that, but at least one ChecksQuick user had requested that feature. So here it is!

You can download beta 2 from the following links:

Mac OS X (From Tiger to Snow Leopard)

Windows (From 2000 to 7)

Please let me have your comments and/or suggestions.

ChecksQuick 3.2 beta now available

I finally started upgrading ChecksQuick(TM). A beta of Version 3.2 is now available. For all users, this version adds a y-Offset (in addition to the present x-Offset) so that checks can be fed in landscape orientation (shorter-side first) into printers that feed from the right or left side. Previously, landscape orientation was only supported on center-feeding printers.

This version also moves the preferences and check layout files for Windows users to avoid any incompatibility with Windows 7.

Download the beta from one of the following links:

ChecksQuick 3.2 beta for Mac OS X

ChecksQuick 3.2 beta for Windows

Released Patent Grabber 5.8!

Patent Grabber(TM) 5.8 is now available. This version adds full-text searching of EP-A applications (limited to 30 hits). It more importantly fixes the downloading issues with EP, PCT and International patent documents that had been caused by changes at the European Patent Office.

Downloading EP-A, PCT and pre-2002 EP-B temporarily broken

Those mischievous folks at the EPO have done it again! Minor changes to their coding has broken Patent Grabber's ability to download EP-A and PCT applications, as well as pre-2002 EP-B patents. The fix is trivial but tedious. A new version will be available shortly.

EPO servers appear to be back to normal!

The EPO's servers that Patent Grabber relies upon appear to be working normally again. Hopefully they will stay that way!

EPO confirms that Open Patent Services is experiencing problems

The European Patent Office has confirmed that their Open Patent Services (OPS) server is experiencing problems.

For Patent Grabber(TM) users, this will likely cause problems with downloading EP published applications, EP granted patents earlier than 1999, and INPADOC legal status summaries. It will also cause problems for the "Include family identifiers" option of the U.S. Patent Biblio spreadsheet. For reviewing search results, there will be problems with using the "Biblio" and "Family" radio buttons that are next to the search results field.

We will let you know when the issue has been resolved.