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We released Breevy 2.00 today, which includes support for program and website launching:

We've got a lot of cool stuff we plan on implementing into Breevy in the near future, so stay tuned.

For the past few weeks we've been working on a really cool app called Breevy:

In a nutshell, Breevy lets you abbreviate words and phrases... so, for example, instead of typing Hello, your order shipped today via UPS and you should receive it in 2-3 days, with Breevy you could just type yost (or whatever you'd like to define as an abbreviation for the phrase) and it'll be replaced for you automatically, saving you quite a few keystrokes -- in our example, 4 vs. 77 keystrokes.

You can check out the full announcement on our forums and you can download Breevy here.

Let us know what you think.

Screencasting seems to be becoming more and more popular lately among software developers, and for good reason. It's a great way to showcase your software to a potential user; for those who don't like text, a short little video showing the software in action is perfect.

So after trying a bunch of different screencasting apps, I found BB FlashBack Express (free) to be the best, in my opinion of course. There are plenty of other alternatives out there, too. Wikipedia has a long list of programs you can try out here.

Making the screencast didn't take as long as I expected... I was able to showcase all of IcyScreen's features in under 3 minutes. And the .SWF file that was produced by BB FlashBack is under 600KB. Cool!

You can check out the screencast here.

After a month of development, IcyScreen 3.00 was released yesterday.

There are so many changes and improvements in this release... there's no way we could've made the new version anything less than 3.00. You really have to check it out to see all of it's awesomeness. The changelog lists all of the improvements, but the jist of it is, IcyScreen gets:

• Support for taking a screenshot of just the active window.
• Greatly improved timestamp/format code support -- one improvement being you can now put a timestamp/format code anywhere in the screenshot file name and directory
• Improved global-setting file handling, to make managing settings for multiple users a lot easier
• Faster upload speeds, as well as improvements made to the e-mailing code
• Support for automatic setting-file reloading; if the setting file has been modified since it was last loaded, IcyScreen will reload it and use it automatically; this functionality can of course be disabled, but it makes central management a lot easier.

... plus a whole lot more. Download it, see for yourself, and let us know what you think.

Just to let everyone know, AutoScreen is now known as IcyScreen.

Not only does the new name look cooler (by the by, if you're wondering what the "Icy" is supposed to mean... think "I see") but it's also more unique and it'll make finding the program easier.

Of course, if you've already purchased AutoScreen you can still use IcyScreen. They're both exactly the same products right now, it's just that from now on we'll only be developing it under the IcyScreen name.