What's new in Hocus Focus (formerly Houdini) 1.3
Jan 3, 2016
- Improvements:
- Added a grace period of a few seconds when changing profiles to avoid immediate hiding of windows when cycling through profiles
- Fixes an issue that could cause the "Choose Application" window to appear on versions of OS X using non-English languages
New in Hocus Focus (formerly Houdini) 1.2 (Jun 6, 2015)
- Additions:
- Hocus Focus will now detect mouse scroll events which occur in out-of-focus windows and will reset that applications timer accordingly. This should fix those annoying cases where browser windows disappear out from under you because they didn’t have primary focus.
- Improvements:
- Hiding of Finder windows should now be much more reliable!
- There’s been a number of fixes to the profile editing page, which should save it’s changes more reliably and generally behave better.
- Various other bug fixes and UI improvements.
New in Hocus Focus (formerly Houdini) 1.1 (Dec 31, 2014)
- Additions:
- Introducing Focus Mode! Focus Mode is a new profile that only allows you to have one application on screen at a time. It’s great for when you need to get your head down and really focus. Remember: you can quickly switch between profiles using the hotkey: ⌘\
- The Preferences and Profile Editor window have had a complete UI overhaul.
- The Profile Editor now offers the option to enable “hide on loss of focus” behaviour by default.
- Added an “Activity Log” setting to enable flat file logging. This is useful if you’re experiencing strange behaviour and need to contact support. Generally you want to leave this disabled.
- Improvements:
- Hocus Focus will now identify and ignore full screen applications.
- Hocus Focus will now leave an application visible if it currently has control over the system menu bar.
- Applications are now hidden in a more orderly fashion (trust a British developer to ask everyone to form an orderly queue).
- Blacklisted a number of core processes to avoid Hocus Focus hiding things it shouldn’t and generally causing mischief.
- Fixed a number of issues which could cause applications to render their circular progress views incorrectly in the application list view.
New in Hocus Focus (formerly Houdini) 1.0.1 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Fixes an issue which could cause the application window to become unresponsive.