Black Friday and price change

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Not so often in the history of iCaching I have done promotions. Actually only once on the 10th anniversary. But this time I make an exception; with all the higher cost for living and energy, I give a 35% discount on iCaching for a week, starting now!

And even bigger news: I also never changed the price tier of iCaching. The only price fluctuations throughout the years have come from Apple changing the prices because of exchange rates. However with the current expensive dollar (for us Europeans), I think it is time to choose a lower price tier. So after the Black Friday promotion I will also lower the normal price around 20%.

Note: the price of iCaching is a perpetual license, not a subscription. So pay once, enjoy forever.

Tell your friends, enjoy iCaching!

New: Czech localisation

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The biggest new thing in the latest iCaching version is the addition of Czech localisation. Geocaching is pretty big in the Czech Republic and I got several request for this locale. So now finally its there 😉

iCaching now supports 5 languages: English, Dutch, French, German and Czech.

Hereby a big thank you for my translators; Richard, Ange and Joerg!

Raising minimum macOS version

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It’s never nice to abandon an old macOS version. But from time to time, I have to do that. This is the only way to be able to use Apples latest APIs and techniques.

The version that I will drop from iCaching 10.4 is macOS 10.12 (Sierra). The good news is that all Macs that can run macOS 10.12 can also run macOS 10.13 (High Sierra). So if you want to have the latest iCaching, you can update your OS and you’re good. Moreover: everyone should always try to keep up with the latest possible macOS update for their machine to get the latest features, fixes and more importantly: the latest security updates.

So this time it should not hurt anyone 😉

Export to GGZ and macOS Monterey 12.3

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Recently Apple released the latest update of macOS Monterey version 12.3. Since that version Apple removed the build in Python support. Unfortunately exporting geocaches to GGZ relies on a Python script that converts the GPX files to a GGZ file. This means that export to GGZ is not working anymore from this macOS update.

I looked for a short time solution (manually installing Python), but that did not work out. So I am now rewriting the export and replicate the steps that happened within the Python script in native (Swift) application code.

As you can imagine, that is not a few hours task, but quite big. So while I work on that, please don’t update to this latest macOS version if you rely on GGZ files in your workflow. I will update this article when the fixed update of iCaching goes out.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: The version (10.2.1) with a fixed GGZ implementation is live