Adds a continuous auto-save feature to your running applications

Oct 21, 2008 18:11 GMT  ·  By

SaveCircle, developed by Gabriel Nion, can easily add an auto-save feature to any Mac app you choose. The simple, transparent, and efficient freeware app has recently been updated to reduce the probability of preference file corruption, and to correct a few other errors.

SaveCircle is a very useful tool as it saves your progress while you're working with any Mac application. SaveCircle works non-stop, no matter the application you're currently using. For example, if you tell SaveCircle to "Apply auto save with: (tick) every frontmost application," it saves the document inside the window of your current choosing. This goes with every application. You can tick "this frontmost application" to give the auto save treatment to just one of the apps running at a certain time.

Don't misunderstand - It's not a backup utility. But, if you select a new text document and start writing without performing a single save until the countdown ends, without fail, SaveCircle will prompt you to choose the name and location for the first save. The app also supports Growl, while general preferences include the ability to enable a sound when countdown is over, choose sound effects, use the Mac OS-specific "poof" effect when detaching/attaching the countdown timer to an app, and more. You can also choose to log all your saves and then export them in either a Text file or a Microsoft Excel sheet.

You can choose to make SaveCircle transparent, so it doesn't get in your way when you're working on something else, but you can "poof" it as well, leaving only the timer visible just above the Finder icon. SaveCircle searches for updates at start, but you can also check for updates manually, following the preferences menu and clicking on the Update icon.

Note: SaveCircle doesn't work with applications that use other apps' save features.

New in SaveCircle 1.2...

· Probability of preference file corruption resolved. · Probability of crash on Log export with Excel format resolved. · English is now default language except on French systems. · Misspelled words corrected in English version. · Some Bugfixes.

SaveCircle is a Universal Binary and requires Tiger or higher to work. Use the link below to get the newly-updated SaveCircle right now.

Download SaveCircle 1.2 (Free).