Today we are releasing updates to Boom – the volume booster and Mac equalizer app, and Voila – the Mac screen capture and recording tool. The updates mainly improve the apps’ quality by way of defect fixes and some improvements in the features. Let’s go through the changes we have made to these Mac apps.

Boom volume booster and Mac equalizer app: Some Boom customers running Mac OS10.7.1 to 10.7.3 experienced some missing UI elements. A quick fix was to update their OS to 10.7.4 or to the latest version and this would have automatically fixed it for them. However, we have now fixed this in Boom v1.7 for those who are yet to update their Mac OS X to the latest version. In addition to this, all Boom lovers would get the following 6 new system-wide Mac equalizers to enjoy with your music/video play:
1. Acoustics
2. Classical
3. Electronic
4. Jazz
5. Pop
6. Rock

Voila Mac screen capture app: This all-in-one screen capture and screen recording app for Mac now sports some new options and defect fixes. Below you’ll find few highlights and you can visit the Voila v3.4 Release Notes for complete change log:

1. Voila Helper: The menu bar icon now enables you to screen-capture or screen-record even after you have quit Voila from your Dock. Voila Helper is an option for you to turn on or off from the Preferences; however, the first time you quit Voila it puts up a prompt on whether to run the app in the background via a menu bar icon presence.

Please note, Voila Helper will run only when you have quit the app while it was running from Dock. Quitting Voila app from menu bar icon will not enable Voila Helper to run and you need to re-launch Voila to perform your screen capture or for other image editing needs.

2. Pause/Resume option during screen recording: This is a new addition to the screen recording feature and this option is provided in the status menu. When you start a screen recording, the ‘Pause Recording’ option gets enabled. You can pause the recording based on your needs and the pause recording option changes its status to ‘Resume Recording’. Any action that you perform on your screen when you have paused the recording will not be recorded till you continue recording by clicking the ‘Resume Recording’ option.

3. Voila audio recording component: This is a separate audio recording component that needs to be downloaded and installed on your system. It is a new component that we have built to improve Voila’s audio recording capabilities from the system. When you start a new video recording, you will be prompted to download and install this Voila audio component. Once installed, ‘VoilaDevice’ would get listed under the Sound Output devices in System Preferences. This is a one-time action and you can un-install this audio component from the Voila Preferences –> Video Recording tab.

4. Other improvements and fixes: Tag auto-completion feature helps to find better matches of tags by providing a drop-down list that was added earlier to other image or video files. Postbox mail client support has been added for you to mail the images/videos directly from the Voila app (go to Voila Preferences–>Export–>Default mailing client drop-down to choose this option). We have fixed defects related to error while saving video with USB device selected as audio input, and also the YouTube login authentication problem is now solved.

These are free updates for all the existing customers. Mac App Store users will get a notification badge on the Mac App Store icon. Hit the ‘Updates’ section on the Mac App Store and download the app updates for free. Non Mac App Store version users would get an update notification prompt (if not, click the ‘Check for Updates’ option manually) to download the free update.

We thank our wonderful customers who provide their support, feedback, suggestions to improve our Mac apps and we don’t forget our Beta users as well. Hope you like the new updates and if you are a first-time visitor to the Global Delight site, you can try Boom volume booster and Voila Mac screen capture for free.

~Guruprasad

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Voila today has completed three years of delighting every Mac user by being the most comprehensive and yet simple screen capture software ever. We thank all our Voila users who helped us in making the app better every time with their suggestions and feedback. For the coming year, we have more exciting updates up our sleeves for Voila.

Now since this is a special occasion, it calls for some special treat too. Thus as a special offer, Voila will be available for just $9.99 on the App Store! That’s a whooping 67% off! So what are you waiting for? Rush to the App Store and grab your copy of Voila today! This offer will be available only till the 10th of January, 2012.

And don’t forget to check out this cool new Voila video:

-Vaishnavi

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It may be a little soon to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving, but it is never too early to get into the holiday mood. Thus, as a special holiday surprise, we have a great offer for you! With every purchase of Voila Mac Screen Capture Software, you will receive a copy of Boom Volume Booster App absolutely free! Now isn’t that just music to your ears?

This offer is only available on the Global Delight Online Store. We would have loved to offer it on the Mac App Store as well, but we have no freedom to do that there

So how does this offer work?

Just visit our Global Delight Online Store, select the kind of Voila license you want to buy i.e., a Single User License, a Home Pack, or a Family Pack, hit the Add to Cart button, complete the purchase process and you will receive an email with your Voila code aaaand a Boom Single User license code! Now doesn’t that make for a great holiday gift? So what are you waiting for? Grab your copy of Voila today! The offer ends on 30th of November, 2011.

Voila is a comprehensive Screen Capturing and Editing Software that lets you capture still shots and videos off your desktop. Not just that, you can also edit and annotate your still shots with Callouts, Text, Filters, Arrows and more to make them more meaningful. With the recent update, we have supported additional email clients such as Sparrow, Sparrow Lite and Outlook. More details about this update can be found on our post entitled, ‘Voila v3.1.1- With New Email Client Support, Copy URL and Fixes‘.

Boom Volume Booster and System-wide Equalizer is a Macworld 2011 Best of Show Winner. It is a simple and easy-to-use app that boosts the audio on your Mac with just a click. It also includes a gorgeous-looking 10-band graphic equalizer with pre-determined presets along with an option to create new presets. Boom also lets you boost an individual or a bunch of audio and video files which can also be synced to your iPhone/iPod touch. Check out the latest update of Boom

-Vaishnavi

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Voila v3.1.1 is finally out and is available on the Mac App Store or the Online Store for just $29.99! This is a free update to the existing users of Voila v3.x. This update not only features a few cool additions that will make your Voila experience even more fantastic, but also a fix, although temporary, to the 3ivx issue.

In one of our previous posts entitled, The Lion Video-recording Crash and the Fix , we spoke at length of how the legacy code, 3ivxVideoCodec present in QuickTime has a few compatibility issues with Mac OS X Lion, causing applications that use the QuickTime framework for screen-recording, to crash. In this update, while we still wait the creators of the 3ivx to provide a fix, we have gone ahead and provided an Error message that comes up when you launch the app. This message will inform you about the presence of the 3ivx component and how to move it for uninterrupted screen-recording on your Mac OS Lion with Voila.

New Email Clients:

In this update we have also provided support to more email clients such as Outlook, Sparrow and Sparrow Lite along with Apple Mail and Entourage. Thus you can now enjoy the flexibility of sharing your Voila captures directly from within the app, through an email client of your choice. You can set it in the Preferences tab of the app. With this, Voila allows you to create, enhance, organize and share your entire work without even leaving the app!

Copy URL:

Another interesting addition and the most requested feature, was the ability to obtain the URL after a file has been uploaded via FTP, SFTP, Flickr or YouTube. Earlier, the URL of only the last uploaded file was copied to the Clipboard, which would be lost the minute some other matter was placed there. Thus now Voila saves the URL for each file uploaded on the FTP/SFTP server, Flickr or YouTube in the Info panel of the app. Thus you can copy the URL and paste/embed it in other places.

With this update we have been able to take Voila a step ahead as a one-stop shop for all your screen capturing, editing and sharing needs. Most of the updates that we provide is a result of users’ feedback and this has helped us in improving the app, so that we can make it more useful to you.

On the Mac App Store:

As we have pointed it out earlier, the Mac App Store is a great platform for listing of apps both for the developers as well as the users. There are usually two thinking processes that happen here. You decide to buy an app either because you have been looking for something like it or you heard/read about it from somewhere. In both the cases, the user reviews on the Mac App Store always adds on to the credibility of the app. But there the review process is not two-way. Most of the developers have the same grouch. There is absolutely no opportunity to clarify a particular user’s question or complaint on the Mac App Store! Most of these complaints could arise from either a genuine issue or the user has not understood the functionality of the app. In both cases, users give it a low rating without a proper explanation. This adversely affects the ranking of an otherwise top-rated app, which could have been a life-saving solution for a genuine user.

Since we developers cannot ask for more details about your query on the Mac App Store, you could try approaching us directly. The contact information is provided on the Mac App Store for you to get in touch with us. Most of us also have an active forum and a support contact. So do make use of these tools.

This reminds me of the often used Spider-Man quote, “With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.” Use it wisely.

-Vaishnavi

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