What's new in Mach Desktop 3.0.6
Nov 1, 2023
- Fixes an issue that may have caused the app to crash when removing/adding additional monitors/displays
New in Mach Desktop 3.0.5 (Nov 16, 2020)
- Application is now a Universal Binary
- New App Icon
- Updated User Interface
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 3.0.4 (Oct 31, 2019)
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 3.0.3 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Improved Stability and Performance
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 3.0.2 (Sep 30, 2018)
- Increased Weather Widget Accuracy for Users in the United States
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 3.0.1 (Sep 18, 2018)
- Updated User Interface
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 3.0 (Jun 25, 2018)
- All new completely redesigned Themes
- All Themes are now pre-rendered Videos using no more than 5% CPU per display (no more included Quartz compositions that rely on heavily CPU/GPU usage, however you can still load your own Quartz Compositions if you would like)
- New Widgets, including Custom Text Widget
- Improved dynamics: Closing/opening Laptop lid, better wake/sleep support, improved awareness when you’re switching Display resolution, etc.
- Preserve original Aspect Ratio in Themes
- Widgets up to 75% faster than previous Desklets
- Desklets renamed to Widgets
- Lots of other polish, refinements, and bug fixes
New in Mach Desktop 2.9.1 (Nov 22, 2017)
- Our Local Weather data provider recently changed how weather data was retrieved; all Weather functions are fully functional with this update.
New in Mach Desktop 2.9.0 (Jul 3, 2017)
- Added the ability to load your own GIF files as wallpaper (GPU accelerated)
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 2.8.0 (Nov 22, 2016)
- Added Touch Bar Support; choose Themes straight from the Touch Bar
- macOS 10.9 or later is now required
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 2.7.2 (Oct 17, 2015)
- Fixed an issue that prevented Weather Desklets from displaying properly
- Various other bug fixes
New in Mach Desktop 2.7.1 (Sep 29, 2015)
New in Mach Desktop 2.6.5 (Dec 16, 2014)
- Added 10 Advanced New Desklets; 5 Weather Desklets and 5 Clock Desklets
- New Weather Desklets include: "12 Hour Vertical Panel,” “5 Day Vertical Panel,” “12 Hour Horizontal Panel,” “5 Day Horizontal Panel,” and “Summary 5 Day Outlook”
- New Clock Desklets include: “Modern,” “Metal,” “Antique,” “Office,” and “Digital”
- Revamped Existing Analog Clock, 12 Hour, and 5 Day Desklets
- New Icon
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 2.05 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Updated for next major OS X release
- Added White and Black Menu Bar Icons
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 2.03 (May 22, 2014)
- Improved Stability
- Various performance enhancements
New in Mach Desktop 2.02 (Apr 14, 2014)
- Fixed an issue that may have caused Weather Desklets not to update or disappear
- All Weather Desklets should now update correctly; every 10-15 minutes
- Enabling Dynamic Wallpaper for a given display no longer sends Desklets to the back
- Replaced Chart Desklets with Graphical Forecast Desklets (Forecasted Temperature, Humidity, Wind, and Pressure)
- Improved 10.9 Compatibility
- Increased Stability
- Various other bug fixes and performance enhancements
New in Mach Desktop 2.01 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Improved Stability
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 2.0 (Sep 7, 2013)
- Completely re-written from the ground up to provide better security, performance, and increased ease of use
- Quartz Compositions and Quicktime Videos have been unified into a coherent graphical chooser, making it easier than ever to choose Themes
- 25+ Brand new 3D (Quartz) Compositions take advantage of Retina displays
- Desklets re-written from the ground up
- New Video foundation plays even the most demanding videos while consuming very little CPU
- New Desklet Manager makes it easy to add Desklets to the Desktop with a single click
- Sandboxed
New in Mach Desktop 1.09 (Oct 17, 2012)
- Increased Reliability when loading Quartz Compositions
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.08 (Sep 5, 2012)
- Improved compatibility with OS X Mountain Lion
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.07 (Nov 18, 2011)
- All videos now in stunning 1080p
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.06 (Aug 30, 2011)
- Replaced Widgets with Desklets: An exciting new kind of utility that lets you run Shell commands, images, and text files on your Desktop
- Option now available to set the system wallpaper to black (to provide a better Mission Control experience with Lion)
- Revamped "Futuristic Modern" composition to provide more room for Desklets
- Improved Lion compatibility
- New Icon
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.05 (Jun 15, 2011)
- Added Futuristic Modern Quartz composition
- Added Fonts Quartz composition
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.04 (Jun 1, 2011)
- Added 1 Lion video
- Added 2 White Tiger videos
- Added 2 Waterfall videos
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.03 (Apr 7, 2011)
- Added 5 Aquarium Quicktime videos
- Added 1 Fireplace Quicktime video
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 1.01 (Feb 8, 2011)
- Improved memory usage by up to 50%
New in Mach Desktop 0.74 (Oct 22, 2010)
- Added the ability to load custom Widgets on the Desktop
- Added one new Quartz composition: Snow Leopard
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 0.70 Beta (Jan 15, 2010)
- All quartz compositions now install by default in the user's composition repository (/Library/Compositions/).
- Quartz compositions can now be browsed graphically.
- Each media type now has its own preference pane.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.68 Beta (Dec 22, 2009)
- Added two new Quartz compositions: Snowman and Spectrum.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.67 Beta (Nov 20, 2009)
- Added three new Quartz compositions: Image Hose, Stix, and Arabesque.
- Minor bug fixed relating to widgets.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.66 Beta (Nov 6, 2009)
- Added two new Quartz compositions: Fall and Moving Shapes.
- Added one new Quicktime movie: Roller Coaster.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.65 Beta (Oct 10, 2009)
- Replaced Desktop Utilities with Desktop Widgets; several Dashboard widgets can now be run on the desktop.
- Wigets include: Business, Calculator, ESPN, Movies, Stickies, Stocks, Translation, and Weather.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.64 Beta (Oct 2, 2009)
- Added Snow Leopard compatibility
- Added 64-bit support
- Added a Reload menu item to the Mach Desktop menu bar icon
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application
New in Mach Desktop 0.62 Beta (Aug 7, 2009)
- Added two new Quicktime movies: Aquarium and Eiffel Tower.
- Added one new Quartz Composition: Wall.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.61 Beta (Jul 17, 2009)
- Added two new Quicktime movies: Tropical Paradise and Yosemite National Park.
- Added two new Quartz Compositions: Travelator and Grid.
- Fixed the default Quartz composition, Earth and Sun, so the earth simply rotates instead of rotating when the mouse moves.
- Removed the Gulf of Mexico Quicktime movie.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.60 Beta (Jun 10, 2009)
- Added dual monitor support; Mach Desktop will now automatically detect whether you have one or two displays and adjust itself accordingly.
- Improved Quartz Composition performance, now capped at 30 frames per second.
- Removed "Full Screen" and "Custom Position" options.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.59 Beta (May 21, 2009)
- Added a new built-in Quicktime movies feature, still retaining support for a user-chosen Quicktime movie.
- Added four built-in Quicktime movies to choose from: "Clearwater Beach", "Gulf of Mexico", "Cresent Lake Park", and "Downtown Clearwater."
- Added two new Quartz Compositions; "Spotlight" and "Defocus".
- All Desktop Utilities are now HUD utility windows by default.
- Fixed a bug where Mach Desktop would crash on opening.
- Fixed other various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.58 Beta (Mar 22, 2009)
- Added the ability customize input parameters in Quartz Compositions.
- Added the option to automatically start Mach Desktop on login/startup.
- Dropped Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Support.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.57 Beta (Mar 22, 2009)
- Added one new built-in Quartz composition: Caterpillar.
- This will be the last version to support 10.4 "Tiger", after this version all future versions will be 10.5 "Leopard" only.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.56 Beta (Mar 6, 2009)
- Added five new built-in Quartz compositions: Shadowed Earth, Image TV, Flying Star, Blob, and Mitosis.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.55 Beta (Feb 19, 2009)
- Added eight new built-in Quartz compositions: White Dwarf, Continental Drift, Bandwidth, Abstract Spheres, Rotating Gears, Security (requires iSight or USB camera), Static, and Moving Apple.
New in Mach Desktop 0.54 Beta (Feb 13, 2009)
- Added three new built-in Quartz compositions: Explosion, Super Nova, and Light Speed.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.53 Beta (Jan 22, 2009)
- Added a new built in Quartz Composition, "Mouse Trails".
- Buttons on Desktop Utilities now behave properly.
- Fixed various minor bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.52 Beta (Jan 16, 2009)
- QuickTime movies now loop by default.
- Much improved Quicktime movie motion rate and volume.
- Web Pages now reload automatically every 30 minutes.
- Improved web page stability.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.51 Beta (Jan 8, 2009)
- Added a Clock Desktop Utility.
- Minor interface enhancements.
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.
New in Mach Desktop 0.50 Beta (Jan 5, 2009)
- Fixed various bugs throughout the application.