Vista Testing

For those early adopters getting ready for Windows Vista, I wanted to let you know that we have begun our compatability testing with Vista and so far everything works well. The only issue that we have noticed is that dragging and dropping files from Windows Explorer does not work well. However this should be fixed either in a future version of Java or a future version of Vista. The core functionality of zsCompare and zsDuplicateHunter do work well though. More updates as we expand our testing.

Program Updates

Hello All,
I just wanted to update everyone on what is happening right now at Zizasoft. We are currently working on reducing the memory usage for zsCompare and zsDuplicateHunter so that those of you who want to compare very large directories and search hundreds of Gigabytes of files can do so easily. This new functionality should lead to products in several related areas. Stay tuned for details!

Current Status of projects

I just realized that it has been awhile since I posted and I wanted to keep everyone up to date on what's going on at Zizasoft.

We are currently working on the next release of zsCompare and zsDuplicateHunter.

The main new functionality for zsCompare is the comparison of executable files so that smaller patch files can be created. Patching executables is a great way for developers to update remote users who do not have fast internet connections.

For zsDuplicateHunter we are working on ways to allow arbitrarily large duplicate hunts. We will also be issuing version 2.31 of zsDuplicateHunter in the near future which fixes some of the obscure errors which people have reported. None of these errors occur frequently, but we constantly strive to make our programs completely error free.

zsDuplicateHunter 2.30 release

Just in case anyone missed the press release, I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that the new version of zsDuplicateHunter version 2.30 is available now having been released July 11th. You can download the latest version from http://www.zizasoft.com/products/zsDuplicateHunter/download.shtml.

I would like to thank our beta testers one more time for all of their great work on the program.

ZsDuplicateHunter beta 3

The third beta of zsDuplicateHunter was released yesterday (7/7/2006). This beta is complete, and we plan to release the full version on Tuesday July 11th unless any complications arise.

I would like to thank all of our beta testers for their help testing zsDuplicateHunter. Your feedback has been invaluable!

zsCompare 3.03 released

I would like to let everyone know that zsCompare version 3.03 was released today. It has two new key features:

1. You can control how much memory is allocated to zsCompare from within zsCompare. To do this, simply use the Adjust Available Memory menu item within the Help menu.
2. You can now filter the files to be compared during directory comparison based on when the files were last modified. This is available in the Standard and Professional versions only.
   

There are also several minor bug fixes in this version.

For a complete list of changes, see: http://www.zizasoft.com/products/zsCompare/history.shtml. You can download the latest version from: http://www.zizasoft.com/products/zsCompare/download.shtml.

zsDuplicateHunter beta 2

We just released zsDuplicateHunter beta 2 to our beta test team. We have gotten some excellent feedback from our beta test team and we have added several new features based on that feedback.

Here is a sampling of some the changes between beta 1 and beta 2.

1. Added a progress dialog when saving HTML and XML reports. Also, fixed to avoid out of memory errors when saving reports.
2. Added the ability to control how the remaining time to complete the duplicate hunt is calculated.
3. Added the ability to control the priority of the duplicate hunt.
4. Added the ability to hide the descriptions of each deletion method.
5. Added the ability to modify the maximum amount of memory which will be used by zsDuplicateHunter.
6. Added the ability to filter files to be searched based on the date that they were last modified. This functionality is only available in the Professional and Enterprise Editions of zsDuplicateHunter.

Based on beta feedback we are also looking into a mechanism to allow arbitrarily large duplicate hunts.