Tag: Chrome Extension

Todo.txt for Chrome – Unified supporter status

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Supporter features on Todo.txt for Android

Supporters of Todo.txt for Chrome can now also access supporter features in the Todo.txt Android app.

Most new subscriptions should be automatically synced with the server. For older subscribers, or if subscription doesn’t auto sync, please provider your order number on the Options screen.

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Provide order number to enable subscription sync

Once the order id has been provided, the subscription may show as ‘pending verification’. Once the server has verified the subscription (may take up to 24 hours), the subscription will show as ready to use on Android.

No additional action is required in the Android app. Sign-in using the same Dropbox/Google Drive account on Android, and the app will automatically enable all supporter features.

Privacy & data

To enable the unified supporter status, the extension uploads a secure, irreversible hash of your email address and provider name (Dropbox or Google Drive), along with your subscription order id to a secure server. When you login to the Todo.txt app with same email address and file provider on Android, the app will automatically sync your supporter status from the server, and provide full access to supporter features.

The email address is hashed inside the app before uploading to the server, so the server never sees the real email address, only its encrypted, salted hash. The privacy statement has been updated for these changes.

Please get in touch using the in-app feedback form if you have any queries about this change.

Other details
  • Supporter sync is only available to paying supporters. Syncing is not available for reward tokens.
  • There may be a delay of 24 hours after subscription before supporter features are available on the other app.
  • Supporter sync is only tested on official Chrome browser. It will probably not work if you are using another Chrome-based browser—Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, or others.
  • If you are a supporter but don’t see supporter access in the app, please contact me using the feedback form in the app where you joined as supporter.

ver 2020.814.9.4

Get Todo.txt for Android on the Play Store

Get Todo.txt for Chrome on the Chrome Web Store

AutoConvert Select—Kelvin, Quarts and more..

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New: Show both conversions with unit names for units with ambiguous names

Some unit names can represent different units, and conversion factors, depending on context. AutoConvert now converts these unit names as both their equivalent units. In such conversions, the assumed name of the original unit is shown under the conversion.

Units covered under this rule are:

  1. Gallons – converts as US gallon and Imperial gallon
  2. Quarts – converts as US quart and Imperial quart
  3. Ounce – converts as ounce (mass) and fluid ounce (volume)
  4. Ton – converts as US ton and Imperial ton
  5. Barrel – converts as US fluid barrel and US oil barrel

 

New Units

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Added support for converting temperatures to and from Kelvin.

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Added support for converting Quarts to both Imperial and US quart measures.

Update to app architecture

Updated the app architecture to fetch conversion rules and details from my server. Earlier these were packed inside the app code.

This change allows me to do small updates, including adding support for new units, currencies, etc, without needing to update the app. This may result in faster updates and changes in future.

Due to this change, the app will need to download the rules at least once on install, and on upgrade to the latest version. If this doesn’t work, please contact me using the feedback link in the app.

Bug fixes

  • Conversions to cm², m³, etc. didn’t display the exponent (2, 3, …) correctly. Fixed.
  • Conversions from in cu and in sq didn’t work. Fixed.
  • Time zone conversion used to pick up incorrect values when converting as time range. Fixed.
  • Light years now converts to both kilometres and miles

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That’s all, folks!

v. 2020.0820.0.52

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AutoConvert Select—Currency names and hectares

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New: Convert currencies from their common names

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AutoConvert now understands and converts common currency names, e.g. Dollar, Yen, Yuan, Rupee. In case of ambiguous names like the Dollar, similar conversion conditions apply as to their currency symbols ($).

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Alternate names and spellings are supported for some currencies, e.g. Ruble/Rouble and Yuan/Renminbi.

Other updateshectare

  • Added support for converting hectares.
  • Fixed a bug that affecting converted dates when converting time zone across dates.

That’s all, folks!

v. 2020.0725.0.51

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Todo.txt for Android & Chrome – Unified supporter status

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Unified supporter status is coming soon (experimental)

Unified supporter status will enable access to Supporter features on both Todo.txt apps—Chrome and Android—as long as you have an active supporter subscription on either one.

No action is required by you. Both apps will automatically sync the existing and new subscriptions.

Privacy & data

To enable the unified supporter status, the app uploads a secure, irreversible hash of your email address and provider name (Dropbox or Google Drive), along with your subscription order id to a secure server. When you login to the Todo.txt app with same email address and file provider on another platform, the app will automatically sync your supporter status from the server, and provide full access to supporter features.

The email address is hashed inside the app before uploading to the server, so the server never sees the real email address, only its encrypted hash. The privacy statement is updated for these changes.

Please do get in touch using the in-app feedback form if you have any queries about this change.

Other details
  • Supporter sync only works when using Dropbox or Google Drive for syncing because local file syncing is not supported in the Chrome extension.
  • Supporter sync is only available to paying supporters. Syncing is not available for reward tokens.
  • There may be a delay of 24 hours after subscription before supporter features are available on the other app.
  • Supporter sync is only tested on official Chrome browser. It will probably not work if you are using another Chrome-based browser—Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, or others.
  • If you are a supporter but don’t see supporter access in the app, please contact me using the feedback form in the app where you joined as supporter.

Experimentally enabled from v 2020.608.8.34 of the Chrome extension, and v 2020.0608.4.3 of the Android app.

Get Todo.txt for Android on the Play Store

Get Todo.txt for Chrome on the Chrome Web Store

AutoConvert Select—time range, European number format, system dark theme..

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New: Time conversion updates

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Time range conversion

AutoConvert now supports converting time zone for a range of time. Values in a time ranges may be separated by a dash or to. Each time value may also specify a different date.

Relative time

Time zone conversion also shows relative time from now, e.g. in an hour.

Time now

AutoConvert window always shows current time in all your time zones. For non-supporters, the time in current/home time zone is displayed.

Reorder your time zones

Reorder your time zones on the options page by dragging and dropping them to show in your preferred order.

 

New: Support for system dark mode

AutoConvert now supports system light and dark modes where supported by Chrome—currently on Windows and macOS. Extension window theming is only available to supporters at the moment.

 

New: Currency conversion upgrades

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European number formats

Currency conversion recognises European number format (comma as decimal marker, period as thousands separator) for conversion. Conversion of values when space is used as separator works only when decimal digits are also specified.

Scale large value names—trillions, billions, and millions

AutoConvert now automatically scales values specified in trillions, billions and millions to show the appropriate output value.

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Currency conversions are usually rounded to two decimal places. But if the converted value is less than 0.01, AutoConvert now shows as many digits as required to show a non-zero value.

Updates

  • Conversions to yard will now also show converted values in feet.
  • *F and *C will be converted as Fahrenheit and Celsius, respectively.
  • Two single quotes, '', will be converted as inches, not as feet.

Update to app architecture

Updated app architecture to support upcoming changes to Chrome extensions APIs. These changes also make the extension lighter, though they may adversely impact the speed of first conversion.

 

Bug fixes

  • Supporter subscription did not update sometimes. Fixed.
  • Changes to some settings did not apply till browser was restarted. Fixed.
  • Certain unit and currency conversions displayed incorrect decimal digits. Fixed.

 

That’s all, folks!

v. 2020.0511.0.50

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WordCounter for Chrome—App to extension migration

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New: WordCounter editor available in WordCounter Chrome extension

The WordCounter editor app is now available directly in the WordCounter chrome extension. Click on the extension button in the toolbar to open the editor. The editor is also available using they keyboard shortcut ‘Cmd/Ctrl + ​.‘, but this may require resetting if another extension is using this shortcut.

Key features of WordCounter editor:

  • Set word or character limit and it shows live count, including warning colour when close to the limit.
  • Optionally set a hard limit and the editor prevents typing beyond the word limit.
  • Markdown support
    • Write in markdown
    • Counts words in converted markdown, not base text
    • Use preview button (or ‘Cmd/Ctrl+r‘) to preview formatted markdown
  • Print content directly from editor

 

End of support for WordCounter Chrome app

Google has announced end of life for Chrome Apps. As a result the WordCounter Chrome app will not receive any more updates. It will stop working when Google ends support on your platform.

I request you to switch to the Chrome extension instead. The editor in WordCounter Chrome extension supports nearly all features1 of the app, and includes more useful features for word counts on the web.

WordCounter extension is available here.

  1. Chrome extensions do not have access to the computer’s file system. So the WordCounter extension cannot save files directly from the editor. ↩

AutoConvert Select—new app icon and updates

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New app icon

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New app icon for AutoConvert Select. The updated icon is used for both AutoConvert Select on Chrome and AutoConvert on Android

 

Updates

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  • Conversion to inch also shows converted value in feet-inches where relevant.
  • Converted currency values are displayed in locale specific formats
    • In India, number separators are placed for lakh and crore digits,
    • In certain European countries, period (.) is used as thousands separator and comma (,) as decimal separator.
  • Metric lengths in mm are never converted to thou, only to inch or higher. Conversion from thou is still supported.
  • When different parts of a dimension have different appropriate unit, both are displayed.

 

That’s all, folks!

v. 2020.0120.0.37

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AutoConvert Select supporter update—convert to multiple time zones and dark theme

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These updates are available to supporters only at the moment.

New: Convert to multiple time zone

AutoConvert can now convert time to multiple time zones, specially useful for distributed teams in multiple time zones. All time zone conversions will show in all additional time zones, apart from your local time.

Add up to four additional time zones on the options page. The custom time zones may be given a recognisable name, e.g. ‘Matt M, Houston‘.

Additionally, the extension window always shows current time in all your selected time zones.

 

Other updates

  • Unlimited conversions on text selection on webpages (max. 6 for non-supporters)
  • Extension window supports light and dark themes

 

That’s all, folks!

v. 2019.0711.0.36

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AutoConvert Select—Currency conversion updates

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Exchange rate link

Clicking on the exchange rate displayed in currency conversion now opens the live exchange rate on Google.

Full currency name

Full original currency name is displayed in the conversion. This is useful when converting from unfamiliar currencies, or when source currency can be ambiguous like ‘dollar‘.

Exchange rate update time

Hovering on the currency exchange rate in a conversion shows a tooltip indicating how long ago the rate was updated. The colour of the exchange rate text—green, amber or red—also indicates its freshness.

 

Other updates

  • Text in extension window is now pinned by default.
  • Added alternate currency abbreviations for some Scandinavian currencies:
    • Norwegian Krone: NKR and NOK
    • Danish Krone: DKR and DKK
    • Swedish Krone: SKR and SEK
    • Icelandic Krone: IKR and ISK

 

That’s all, folks!

v. 2019.0226.0.33

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AutoConvert Select – Become a supporter

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Premium supporter membership is now available in AutoConvert Select.

Becoming a supporter helps fund continued maintenance and development of the extension. It also helps me determine if there is a genuine value being delivered by AutoConvert, and direct focus on requests from supporting users.

There are three levels of supporter memberships available:

    1. Supporter ($0.99 / £0.79 / €0.89 / ₹ 60 – a month)
    2. Promoter ($4.99 / £3.49 / €3.99 / ₹ 299 – a month)
    3. Patron ($14.99 / £9.99 / €10.99 / ₹ 914 – a month)

Please pick a supporter level that reflects both your ability to pay, and how useful you find AutoConvert.

Features exclusive for premium supporters:

  1. Currency conversion,
    • Currency rates are also fetched 4x more frequently for premium supporters than trial users
  2. Custom target time zones (coming later), and
  3. Alternate target currency and time zones in extension window

All premium features are available to all premium supporters, irrespective of premium level chosen.

Features available to all users:

  1. Measurement unit conversion, and
  2. Time zone conversion to detected current time zone,
  3. Unlimited unit and time zone conversion from extension window

Free Trial

A free 5-day guest trial enables all premium features. The guest trial period starts when currency conversion is first enabled1.

A 30-day free trial period starts the first time you sign up for a premium supporter membership. This enables all premium features, including more frequent currency rates fetch. First payment is only charged at the end of this 30-day free trial period2.

Starting May 2019, 30-day free trial is no longer available.

The guest trial is now available for 10 days after installation. Currency conversion is available to all users during guest trial. After 10 days, a supporter subscription is required to enable supporter features, including currency conversion, multiple time zones, dark mode, and more…

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