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FunkeeStory has now been renamed to Phone Journal, and i’m very pleased to announce the availability of Phone Journal 1.1 which can be downloaded here.

If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a new video demo of Phone Journal at the website. Check it out!

If you’re upgrading from FunkeeStory, please remember to disable the FunkeeStory conduit first before syncing with the new Phone Journal conduit. Phone Journal will automatically migrate your preferences and SMS data files from FunkeeStory.

Here’s a brief summary of changes between FunkeeStory 1.0.9 and Phone Journal 1.1.0.

- Renamed from FunkeeStory to Phone Journal, with a new icon.
- Leopard compatibility fixes.
- New Look - Revamped user interface to be more Leopard-like, even on Tiger.
- New - View statistics on messages used each month with customisable billing day.
- New - Automatic software version checking and installation (optional).
- New - Undo available when decoding and deleting messages.
- New - Added advanced option to delete duplicate messages.
- New - Delete messages.
- Message text searching revamped.
- Lots of bug fixes.

As always, Phone Journal development continues immediately after this release. Treo 600 and Verizon Treo 650 support is being developed right now, and iPhone development will immediately follow.

Right before I leave for WWDC tomorrow, here’s a new release of FunkeeStory for everyone to enjoy! As usual, this is a free upgrade for all users.

New and improved in FunkeeStory 1.0.9:

• Vastly improved handling of US mobile phone numbers.
• Redundant messages will no longer show up for received MMS from friends who also sent it to other recipients.
• Syncing multiple Treo’s to the same Mac improved - you no longer have to remember to set the handset profile first.
• Improved general handling of phone numbers.
• Contact name list is now sorted case-insensitively.
• Fixed bug with handling of contact names with less than 5 letters.

FunkeeStory - The BEST SMS/MMS backup/viewer for your Treo.

If you have the latest Palm Treo 755p, I would love to hear from you!

Being an independent developer, my resources (especially financial ones) are scarce so I can’t afford to buy every single Treo model in existence for testing. Although i’m quite sure FunkeeStory should continue to work with this latest Treo since I didn’t see Palm reporting any changes in its Messaging application, its much better to be sure!

So if you have a Treo 755p, please download FunkeeStory and give it a try on your Mac, and let me know the results by leaving a comment in this post, or sending me an email through the contact form.

Thanks!

FunkeeStory 1.0.8 has been released and is available at http://www.funkeemonk.com/FunkeeStory.dmg

This is a stability improvement release, and thus, I highly recommend it to everyone to download and upgrade. This is a free update for all users.

Changed in this release:
- Conduit stability improvements.
- Properly handles email addresses used as phone numbers for contacts.
- Further improved handling of phone numbers with formatting characters.

And the sprint to complete FunkeeStory 1.1 continues! This is a good time to thank the team behind Subversion. Without Subversion, I wouldn’t have been able to so easily switch between developing and releasing FunkeeStory 1.0.x and the new 1.1.x release. Thank you, all the wonderful people behind Subversion.

First of all, you must be wondering why there’s an “a” at the end of the version number. I need to confess, I did a slip-up in the original release of FunkeeStory 1.0.7, and that earlier release contained a bug that may cause redundant messages to appear in your Mac. Fortunately, I did manage to detect and fix it quickly, so less than 15 people worldwide have downloaded the release containing that bug. If you’re amongst one of those affected, I sincerely apologise to you - please contact me if you’re facing any problems at all because of that release and i’ll do my best to help.

That aside, FunkeeStory 1.0.7a has a number of changes from 1.0.6
- Much improved Address Book contact photo matching.
- Stability improvements in the conduit.
- Better handling of phone numbers with formatting characters like “-”.
- Redundant phone numbers in contact details are now merged.

I highly recommend upgrading to this release if you’re on an earlier version. As always, this update is free for all users.

With this release out, I will be continuing work on FunkeeStory 1.1 - which would be sold at its original price of $24.95. If you’ve always been interested in FunkeeStory, this is your last chance to buy FunkeeStory at its promotional price, so hurry!

I’d also like to thank all those that have supported the development of FunkeeStory by purchasing a license. Thank you. Without your support, I would not have managed to even survive these past 4 months, developing these new releases. Its with your support that I do not need to go out and look for a job somewhere writing code for The Man, instead, I work for you - my faithful users.