I have made a new release of Kapow that changes the interface somewhat, while also adding the ability to make printed reports of your data that can also be used as invoices.

I have made some improvements to the interface of Kapow. The largest visual change is that the projects are now listed in a sidebar. Because of this, you can now group related projects by dragging and dropping them on top of each other. I have also made adding and removing sessions and projects a lot more obvious by adding buttons for those purposes. Also, you can run two or more timers at the same time if necessary.

For several months now I’ve been trying to recreate a bug reported in the Mac version of Kapow, and I finally found it today. The problem was that I had been manually setting the column widths, but the version of Qt I included was ignoring that and not showing anything other then the last column. The fix was to let Qt resize the columns to the width of the contents instead. There is now a new release that fixes this bug. Enjoy!

Upon request I added a note column to Kapow, so that you can see what different sessions were for. While I was working on it, I decided to also make use of some of the features of Qt’s MVC implementation and allow for inline editing. This is a small release, but enjoy.

A few days ago, I finished writing two programs and put them online. The first program, FocusWriter, is a fullscreen word processor that I intend to use to write my NaNoWriMo novel this year—I got tired of using OpenOffice.org and wanted something somewhat different. The second program, Kapow Punch Clock, is a simple punch clock I wrote by request, and figured that other people could use as well.

There are a few more features that I intend to add to FocusWriter, including wordcount based goals. That’s a feature intended mostly for NaNoWriMo. However, I already have NovProg, so I might not get around to it for a little while. I have thought about some form of integration between the two programs, but I haven’t figured out a good interface for it just yet.

Of course, I’m still busy with a couple of other projects that I was working on before getting sidetracked by FocusWriter and Kapow. One of them, a recipe manager, is already usable, and I hope to have it completed and online before the Christmas season begins and completely distracts me.