Previous releases:

Release 15

1. •I’ve fixed a bug with subordinate current stations where the slack times were computed incorrectly.
   

2. •I’ve added a tinted section underneath the curve on the Month view to distinguish the tides better.
   

3. •I’ve implemented a way to reset a saved station when the station’s name has been changed in the harmonics data files.
   

4. •I’ve added many more U.S. subordinate current stations (about 2,000 of them). I took them off the NOAA website, but they are of dubious accuracy as NOAA is in the process of remeasuring all the current reference stations, and the subordinate stations depend on these updates. NOAA expects this job to be done in 20 years or so...
   

Release 14 is primarily for Leopard (10.5) compatibility:

1. •The texture on windows is gone. It didn’t look good in the Leopard black.
   

2. •The date pickers on the month and text views work correctly again, and the views update now instead of reporting back errors.
   

3. •The fade-out/fade-in transition on the day view is gone. It left visual artifacts (black blotches) when running on MacBooks.
   

4. •The new moon and full moon symbols were all wrong on Leopard. Somehow the font I used was no longer the right font. I switched fonts for the full moon symbol, and drew my own new moon symbol.
   

On the non-Leopard compatibility side:

1. •Rhumb line distances have been added to the Find By Distance dialog.
   

2. •Changes on the month view were made to speed up the display on older PowerPC machines.
   

3. •Changes were made to the day view to make the dates display centered.
   

Release 13:

1. •A spinning beachball of death when changing the text view layout has been fixed.
   

2. •The text view now highlights today's date in blue and scrolls it to the center of the text view.
   

3. •Date pickers for the text and calendar views now work correctly when today's date is at the end of the month but the station's time zone sets the date to the next month.
   

4. •Month names are now displayed on the calendar.
   

5. •A crash when quickly and repeatedly changing the date on either the calendar or the text views has been fixed.
   

6. •Anchor Aid now adjusts the anchor rode scope to account for the height of the anchor fitting above the water.
   

7. •Opening Mr. Tides from MacENC or GPSNavX now displays the Find By Distance dialog instead of opening the closest station. This way the user can select the station they want to open.
   

Release 12:

1. •  My home-grown astronomical routines have been replaced by the Skycal code from XTIDE. Now the times for the moon and the sun are much more accurate, especially for high-latitude stations around the solstices and equinoxes. In addition, days when the sun or the moon is either never above the horizon or always above the horizon are displayed correctly.
   

2. •  The shape of the moon display on the day view now reflects whether the moon is waxing or waning.
   

Release 11:

1. • The calendar can be set to display text only.
   

2. • Anchor Aid, a new feature, has been added. This will tell you if it’s safe to anchor at a tide station based upon your vessel’s draft, the depth of water under your boat, and the current tide. It will also tell you how much scope you’ll need, based upon the high tide.
   

3. • Documents now auto-save themselves so changing views doesn’t trigger a save notification. I’ve also improved the way new stations find their locations, eliminating one unnecessary dialog box.
   

4. • Window positions are now saved and restored.
   

5. • Fixed a problem with multiple Growl notifications being displayed.
   

6. • Changed Growl to use localized languages.
   

7. • Fixed a problem when the system’s date format wasn’t what I expected.
   

8. • Fixed maps where station dots wouldn’t appear.
   

9. • Stations with periods in their names now save correctly. Before, the file name would be truncated at the period.
   

Release 10:

1. • Curves for the Day view can be either filled or a simple line
   

2. • The distance dialog has been updated. There is now a search button, the latitude and longitude can be formatted in different ways, and the various fields now update their values continuously so the search can use them without you having to tab out of the field.
   

3. • Preferences now has a way to specify the format of the latitude and longitude, either as decimal degrees, degrees and decimal minutes, or the full degrees, minutes and seconds.
   

4. • Exporting to iCal no longer causes a nil object exception to occur the second time the export is run.
   

5. • The Month and Text date pickers now set their time zones to the station time zone, so you don't get odd effects like selecting a month and having the previous month appear instead.
   

6. • Clicking on a cell in the Month view at certain times would send the wrong date to the Day view. This has been fixed.
   

7. • Printing now has captions for the station name, and printing the day view has the summary printed below the curve.
   

8. • Station loading is faster on older PPC machines.
   

9. • Map loading is faster on older PPC machines, as is zooming the map.
   

10. • Mr. Tides is now in French!
    

Release 9:

1. • Fixed a bug where viewing the calendar for a subordinate station would hang the application if there was only one tide in any day. The application got lost trying to figure out what the tides should be in that case.
   

2. • Fixed a bug where selecting a new date for the Day view of a station in a different time zone could result in the Day view being off by a day.
   

3. • Using MacENC or GPSNavX to find a station no longer open all stations that are at or near that location (which can happen if there are two or more stations at the same latitude and longitude), it only opens the first station in the list.
   

4. • Fixed a bug where the current value in the Day view would be displayed when it shouldn't have been, after clicking on a day in the Calendar view.
   

Release 8:

1. • Added Growl notifications for tide events. Requires the Growl notification engine.
   

2. • Corrected the maps for the Carolinas and Chesapeake Bay. I put part of North Carolina into the wrong map...oops.
   

3. • Fixed a bug that would cause an rare out-of-bounds exception while finding the tide values.
   

Release 7:

1. • Found a way to fix the problem with user-specified short time formats that don't include the time in the format I assumed. I simply change the format to what I want :)
   

2. • Fixed a bug with the sun times where the sun was only up for a few hours on the equinox.
   

Release 6:

1. • Fixed a bug with the start of DST where launching the Mr. Tides 3 on the day that DST starts would have the time of the day view starting at 11pm the day before, and end at 11pm that night. Now the time starts at midnight as it should.
   

2. • Partially addressed an issue when the user changes the short time format in the International Preference inside System Preferences. The hours for the day view would become corrupted if the short date was changed. My fix is not permanent, I simply used the long date format to find the hours. Problems will still occur, as I use the short date format in quite a few places. The "fix" is to reset the short time format to be hours:minutes. I'm still looking into how to fix this permanently.
   

3. • Updated the help files, adding a troubleshooting page as well as an iCal export page.
   

4. • Added the ability to directly export the map's stations to Google Earth. Unfortunately I can't get Google Earth to talk to Mr. Tides 3, so the route is one-way right now but it does complement the maps, to see the stations in Google Earth.
   

5. • Also added the ability to have an open station show it's location in Google Earth, instead of the entire map.