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A newsletter subscription is now available in the Support section.

All Flash slideshows were removed from the website and replaced with JQuery based animations.

The website is now fully compatible with iPod, iPhone and the iPad.

You probably noticed that my website went offline from 25 November 2009 until 1 December 2009.

Attribute Changer got such an enormous success that the assigned traffic limit was reached or passed in the last few months. But in November, the traffic exploded in such a way that the limit already got passed on 23 November 2009 and I needed to limit the access to the website.

Attribute Changer development and hosting cost me lot of money and I would be very thankful if you consider donating to the project to keep it alive.

Since 10 years, Attribute Changer's popularity is growing constantly and the program is still free and will remain free in the future.

To be able to offer Attribute Changer, I spent lot of my free time in the last years. Beside this, I have to pay the webhosting including the download traffic that isn't very low due to the success of the program. Microsoft Windows licenses aren't free either, nor are new Delphi licences for the development environment.

If you like Attribute Changer or find it useful, I would be very happy if you consider donating to the project.

You can find the Donation button on the Download page.

Attribute Changer celebrates its 10 year birthday in 2009.

I still remember the development history of Attribute Changer. In fact, I needed a basic tool to change attributes on files and folders and I couldn’t find anything on the net, at least nothing suited for my problem.

I decided therefore to develop a tool myself and as soon it got finished, my friends told me it was worth to put on the Internet back in 1999. Not being developed in mind to be published, a help file was added, a minor bug fixed and a one-page website uploaded to a free web hosting company.

At the beginning, about 30 visitors per month were counted on my website and I was really proud. Over the years, more and more features were added to Attribute Changer and the tool was localized to other languages, making it more and more popular.

Currently, an average of 7000 visitors per month hit the website and I want to thank all the contributors and users worldwide for the ongoing success of Attribute Changer.

The petges.lu website has a new home. Please update your bookmarks if you were referring the old webplaza.pt.lu/rpetges location.

Attribute Changer news : Attribute Changer 6.10 development progresses well and a first preview version has been sent out to the translators to get some feedback. There is still some work to do but most of the new features already work .... and no, there is still no 64-bit support for Attribute Changer for the same reasons I explained in an earlier blog entry :

• Borland Delphi, the used development environment doesn't exist in a 64-bit version.
• Lazarus, a Delphi clone is not yet ready for Attribute Changer development ... some key functions are still missing.
• I don't own a 64-bit machine, my 20" Apple iMac is only 2 years old and I'm not ready to spend 1.500 EUR for a new machine.

Once a year, I try to redesign my website and the result of my efforts are now put online. The site is created and managed with Rapidweaver, a web design software exclusively made for the Mac.

The Blocks and Carousel plugins from Yourhead software are used on the new site for better visual appearance and navigation experience.

Attribute Changer news : A new version is currently in development and finally delivers a long requested feature ... changing the date and time stamp of pictures (DateTime EXIF field). There were some design changes in the GUI planned for version 6.0, but due to the massive changes, I decided to postphone them until this release.

I registered a new domain and this website is now accessible using http://www.petges.lu or the well known http://www.petges.com

Some progress has been made to Attribute Changer but my priorities are still in real life. Computing has become a minor task and I think it won't change in the near future.

Several european computing magazines asked for permission to distribute Attribute Changer on CD's with their printed magazines ... Many thanks to contribute to the success of Attribute Changer !

Apple news : Apple released a back ported beta release of their Dashcode development environment for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) . With this tool, you can develop and debug Dashboard widgets in an XCode like environment.

All you need is a free ADC (Apple Developer Connection) membership to get it for free. The final release will be included in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Well, I'm still alive but there isn't enough room for the moment to do some development on Attribute Changer, at least not enough to make it progress faster.

By the way, I bought an 20" Apple iMac with an Intel processor and migrated everything from Windows XP to Mac OS X and I'm really enjoying this operating system ... no more tweaking the registry, no fear to connect to the internet, fun with iLife .... it simply works.

To continue Attribute Changer development, I purchased Parallels Desktop virtualization software and configured a virtual machine in host only mode to prevent access to the Internet. In the meantime, I also dropped my old Delphi 5 development platform for Attribute Changer in favor of Turbo Delphi Explorer Edition which can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.turboexplorer.com



This website is made on an iMac with RapidWeaver. More information can be found at http://www.realmacsoftware.com