What's New

New to 3.0.5

• Fixed issue with expiration if non-appstore versions of MoonMenu were installed previously. Sorry!

• Better defaults to expand whole window on first run.

• Fixed GMT offset with lunar quarter times.

New to 3.0.4

• Time zone preference is now in sync with the clock for all settings.

• Added "Run at Login" menu item under the "Gear" menu that can be checked on and off.

• Fixed calculations which failed after recent arithmetic rollover. Whoops!

• MoonMenu is now Intel only. And requires at least Mac OS X 10.5.

New to 3.0.3

• Fixed problems with Time Zones and Quarter Times.

• Fixed problems with Time Zones and time since full moon.

New to 3.0.2

• Fixed problem with Sunrise/Sunset times on Mac OS X 10.6.

• Added automatic update check to make transition to new versions easier.

New to 3.0.1

• Made disclosing portions of the MoonMenu window a little bit faster.

• Added a little more space for AM/PM. Sometimes they'd get cut off.

• Added better informative text if MoonMenu is not in /Applications.

• Added logic to detect when MoonMenu.app is moved while it is running. This is bad. So now the user has the opportunity to quit.

• Added version number to About Box. (Imagine that!)

• Added note about the current assumed status of daylight savings time.

• Fixed problem with some time zones and quarter time reporting with respect to latitude and longitude.

• Fixed pretty big memory leak that would happen every time the moon was clicked. Sorry about that.

• Warnings now come to the front of other windows so they don't get lost.

New to 3.0.0

• Completely rewritten in Cocoa using all of the great features of Mac OS X.

• Beautiful moon images at really high resolutions that are scaled on the fly for the menubar and in the new control window.

• New collapsable window.

• New control to scrub through all phases of a lunation.

• New clean installation method.

• Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

New to 2.0.3

9 and X:

• Fixed problem with text in some windows.

• Fixed registration problem.

X only:

• Fixed font metrics for Mac OS X 10.2 in some dialogs and windows.

• Fixed problem with "Launch Application..." menu item under some 10.2 systems.

• Fixed problem with Moon dissappearing from the menubar during registration reminder.

New to 2.0.2

9 and X:

• The phases in the menu are now sorted chronologically.

• Moon pictures are now synchronized better with actual phase.

• Added warning about Date & Time Settings Fidelity.

• Changed Latitude and Longitude to be consistent with majority of web sites: South and West are Negative.

• Added UI defining South & West Latitudes.

• Fixed problem with South & West Latitudes and Longitudes. (They should be negative.)

• Removed check-mark from the "Get" menu in the Settings Panel of the application.

• The definitions panel now contains a styled, scrolling text box that can hold more text.

• Removed "X" from Classic Window title.

X only:

• Dramatically improved rendering of Moon in the Menubar on Mac OS X with Aqua Rendering.

• A startup item is now available in the "Login" system preference.

• Menu preferences now update immediately in Mac OS X.

• The phase icons in the menu are now correct for users below the equator who are also running Mac OS X.

• Fixed a compatibility problem with the soon to be released Mac OS X 10.2.

• Added a "Launch MoonMenu Application" menu item to the system menu. Be sure the most recent MoonMenu application is present in the Applications Folder under Mac OS X for best results.

• Moved MoonMenu to a background only application. It can even be quit with ProcessViewer.

• Added "Upgrade" progress indicator window for the four seconds it takes to uninstall version 2.0 and 2.0.1.

• Added "Upgrade" logic to MoonMenu Application that will automatically uninstall previous versions on Mac OS X.

• Added warning about low antialiasing of text threshold.

• Fractional time zones, like 9.5, are now possible. Previously, all numbers had to be Integers.

New to 2.0.1

• Fixes a problem with preference synchronization between menu and application in MacOS 9.

New to 2.0

• The MoonMenu™ menu is now compatible with MacOSX!

• The MoonMenu™ application is now compatible with Mac OS X!

• Added sun rise/set, twilight rise/set and moon rise/set calcualtions to the application and the menu.

• MoonMenu™ is now aware of Latitude and Longitude and there will be many calculations based on these values in future versions. The first of these are the rise and set times.

• The Phase buttons in the MoonMenu™ application now respect time zone settings.