Enso Update: Performance and Internationalization

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Today we released another Enso update, our fourth since Enso was first released.

Although we’re raring to add some of the new features we have planned, we decided to focus on fixing bugs for this patch. Our thanks goes out to all those who took the time to submit detailed bug reports when Enso misbehaved.

The biggest fix was a series of performance improvements. If you were having trouble with Enso mysteriously slowing down your system, you shouldn’t any more. The bug affected Photoshop, Visual Studio, and Google Talk, among others.

Among the other changes:

• We have fixed several bugs that could cause Enso to crash in rare cases.
• A bug that caused Learn As Open… to fail in certain circumstances has been fixed.
• The Caps Lock mode (if on) is automatically turned off when Enso is started.
• We’ve added two new commands, Open Search and Open Run. Try them out today!

Finally, I’m proud to say we have improved international support: Enso understands where you are and changes some commands’ behaviors appropriately. The Google command now requests Google results in your language, and the Calculate command now follows your locale settings for decimal points — that is, if you have European locale settings, Calculate will accept European style number formatting, with commas for decimal points.

If everything has been working as it should, your copy of Enso should already have updated itself with the new bug fixes and features. How can you tell whether you’ve got them yet or not? We added a feature for that, too: use the “help” command and look for the “Enso Build” number in the upper-left corner of the Help screen. This patch is build number 2109, so if you see 2109, you are up to date.

Thanks for using Enso, everybody!

Please note: Since January 15, 2008, all Enso products have been free. To get the latest version of Enso, free of charge, see the main Enso page.

Enso is a brilliant piece of software. Kudos to you all for building it.

I have both a Mac and a PC and had been hunting forever for a PC equivalent of Quicksilver. Now I’m crossing my fingers for Enso to come to the Mac. Its fast and its slim, two things Quicksilver can’t say.

I’m with you. Apart from my notebook I have an old Mac mini and runnig quicksilver on it is a pain

I love Enso! I’m using it on my PC at work. At home we have nothing but Macs, so I can’t wait for the Mac version.

Excellent! This fixes the problems I was having with Delphi. I’m hoping this is the same issue that causes my machine to crawl along if I’ve had Enso open all day.

A most excellent piece of software. I too use it at work, as that’s the only place I have to use Windows (boo!) until I learn to program Macs well enough to work with them. ;)

Enso just keeps getting better and better!

Using a laptop touch pad is a pain. Having Enso has pretty much made my touch pad obsolete.

The new commands open run and open search are not listed in the help yet!

open run is below open run service helper for me, so I need to type open run then press down. Start + R is easier… ;)

I’m happy to report, however, that this update seems to fix every issue I had with Enso, meaning I can now use it on my wonderful computer at work… :D

Thank you, Humanized Guys! (And gals?)

I’ve tried Launcher for a while. However the idea is wonderful, I had an issue, which I think can stop this product from its breakthrough. I have to hold Capslock down. Why is that?
It would be much more practical and less acrobatic to just press Capslock and type the Command - and enter.
However, your product, your choice. Good luck! Looking forward to a customizable Reader (or have I missed that)!

Erick, you can already do that. Use the “preferences” command and choose “sticky”. I guess we need to do more to make people aware that the option exists.

Drarok, if you don’t need “Run Service Helper”, you can always Unlearn it.

Derek, thanks for pointing out the missing Help content.

Erick, we haven’t released the customizable Reader yet, but we will.

First a little question:

(I just realized the wonderful of the live preview… awesome!)

You just can’t take a key from the keyboard and go away so what if I do need the caps lock key for its original purpose? and it is not a bit difficult to write enso commands with your little finger over the caps? so until an “enso key” (like the windows key) came with every keyboard (i do not doubt it will) wont be useful an enso voice command??

As you may see I am just getting here, I am writing while the trial downloads, so I am sure that you have already thought about my questions. I came here looking for a pagination pattern for web apps, and I never imagined to find such torrent of geniality… starting with the pagination, followed by enzo, the live preview… I wonder, how can you be so smart??

It is finishing the download, I’ll came back later to keep congratulating your work…

I am just amazed…

As I see from the tutorial, every question was answered…

And it is better than it seems… just perfect.

God bless you guys for such a wonderful piece of software.

I shall insist in the voice command, not only to invoke the quasimode, but for every command! wouldn’t be nice? I as a developer know how hard and possibly useless with actual speech recognition technology it can be, but you should give it a try… In your hands, it could be the next software revolution… If it is not yet…

See you soon…

Thanks again!

I am sorry about this three off topic posts, I just dont know where to put them ;)

Looking further the launcher I just keep amazed, but I came with two suggestions:

1) What if enso could play, stop and pause the winamp?
2) The MUTE command is missing!! how many times you should mute some loud inoportune sound in the office (I will let you define inoportune) the mute button doesn’t work, and when you are finally openning the volume control and looking for the silence check box it is too late?

Thanks again guys, feel free to move my off-topic, hope not to the trash ;)

I just watched (OK, part of) the Google presentation on Interfaces, got excited, and downloaded the trial Launcher! On initial examination, it works great, with one exception - it pins my CPU at 90-100% and keeps it there. It’s almost impossible to do anything else on the pc with Launcher loaded.

I tried exiting and re-starting, rebooting, etc., to no avail. My pc isn’t new, but it has an Athlon 1.92G processor with 500M of RAM running Windows XP Pro - I don’t see how Launcher could be usable by everyone else when it blows my pc away.

I’ve got Google desktop and a lot of other stuff resident in memory, but I would think this would be more of a memory than a CPU problem, right? Any suggestions?

Thanks.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU TURN OF CAPSLOCK NOW? PLEAES SOMEBODY TELLME HOW!!

Just kidding, ha ha.
Great product, I’m using the trial version, trying to get addicted so I’ll buy it in a month.
So far I’ve found the windows key set to sticky to be the best configuration personally.
I’ll keep playing with it!