Ok, I know, we just released 2.2.0, but this is a really cool update. What’s new? Well possibly the greatest enhancement to QuickTunes performance wise. You know, one of the downsides to QuickTunes was that it had to poll iTunes every second to find out when a song changed. Not anymore. After a friendly tip from a email, I know use a Distributed Notification from iTunes. Now what does this mean for the user. Well, it means that QuickTunes processor usage in idle time goes from about 5-15% to 0%. Yep! That’s right, 0. Really really incredible. We’ve also got some visual enhancement as well as. Here is the list of updates as well as the link to QuickTunes.

• The Open Floating Window menu item now changes it’s text and function based on whether the window is open or not.


• Default hotkey for Play/Pause changed to control-command-space to resolve conflict with Spotlight.


• Now receives notifications from iTunes for song changes (instead of polling).


• Reduces idle CPU usage to 0% (Major enhancement in performance).


• Added other icons to QuickTunes menu for visual improvement.


• Other minor enhancements in performance.


• Minor bug fixes.