Wow — what a month! 45,000 copies of Hyperspaces have been downloaded (that’s version 1.0.3 alone!), and from what I can tell, people love it. It has had great reviews on sites such as Smoking Apples and MacStories, and the feedback via Twitter has been really encouraging.

This post has a dual purpose:

  1. To announce the release of Hyperspaces 1.0.4; and
  2. To give a small preview of what’s coming in Hyperspaces 1.1.

Hyperspaces 1.0.4

This is primarily a bug fix release, but it’s a good one! There are lots of great fixes in here for users who are running Leopard — I know version 1.0.3 was a bit of a bumpy ride for you guys. Snow Leopard users should find that everything is a little smoother. The full release notes are available at the Hyperspaces release notes page, and you can download the new version by checking for updates within the app, or by downloading it directly.

What’s coming in Hyperspaces 1.1?

I’m not big on talking about features in upcoming releases — it generally leads to people getting too enthusiastic and wanting things before they are ready. On the flipside, it’s important to me that you guys know what you’re getting when you decide to buy a license.

Hyperspaces 1.1 is going to deliver some great new features and improve how you customize your spaces:

I speak your language

Localizing to different languages is a priority for version 1.1 — I’ve had lots of great offers to translate Hyperspaces to all sorts of languages I should take the time to learn.

Apply customizations across multiple spaces

You can now select more than one space at a time when you’re setting up your spaces. It works like the Finder — command-​click will select individual spaces, shift-​click will select the spaces in between whatever the previous and current selections are. This is worth the price of admission on it’s own — I often wanted to change the font I was using on my spaces and didn’t because it was just too much work. Now it’s as easy as pie!

Here’s a video showing the new behaviour in action:

Set customizations for every screen of every space

This has been the number one request since I first released a preview of Hyperspaces. Being able to set a different desktop image for every screen within each of your spaces means that you’re really only limited by how many desktop images you have. It works a lot like the system’s desktop picture preferences — a new window will pop up on each of your displays allowing you to setup your customisations. Here’s a quick video of that window:

“Ooer! When can I download it?”, you ask

There’s no release date yet. My goal is before the end of March, but I’m not committing to a date until I’m sure I can deliver. Everything you see in the videos above works as advertised, but things are bound to change — I’ll keep posting teasers to @thecocoabots on Twitter, so make sure you’re following if you want to stay up to date.