Small Tweaks in Poker Copilot Preferences

Showing Hand History Folders in Finder

In Mac OS X Lion, Finder doesn’t show the “Library” folder anymore(although there are several ways to access it). Some online poker rooms supported by Poker Copilot store their hand history files within Library, so to help you get to these files, I’ve added “Show in Finder” to Poker Copilot’s list of hand history folders:

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This will force the folder to appear in Finder.

 

Incomplete Language Packs

Some of Poker Copilot’s translations are quite incomplete. I think it may be jarring for some people to use half-translated software. So I’ve categorised several of the translation packs as “incomplete”. They are currently Spanish (Spain), Russian, Polish. Portuguese (Portugal), and Portuguese (Brazil). From the next update, Poker Copilot won’t use any of these translations until I mark them as complete. However you can override this:

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This is a temporary preference, which I’ll remove once all the translations are complete enough.

 

Buy Poker Copilot via Bank Transfer

In some European countries, bank transfers are a popular way to buy electronically. Until now you couldn’t buy Poker Copilot with a bank transfer, except on an informal basis. Now it is available as a purchase option for everybody:

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Our reliable, professional, successful e-commerce partner is FastSpring and they just added this new option.

 

Improvement to Appearance of HUD Popup

When you click on a player’s HUD panel in Poker Copilot, you see a popup panel that shows all the stats for that player. I’ve tweaked this to be more compact, and to use the statistic colour-coding. The left-hand side is how it is currently; the right-hand side is how it will appear in the next Poker Copilot update:

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Besides the colour-coding, the text is in a slightly smaller font and the line spacing is smaller.

If you want to try this out already, you can download an unofficial update that includes the new-look popup: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.102_rc9.dmg

 

Improvement for Poker Copilot Translators

If you are one of the volunteer Poker Copilot translators, then you’ll appreciate this new feature:

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Now you can see your translations immediately in Poker Copilot without needing to wait for the next release. The workflow goes like this:

1) Make some modifications to the Google Docs translation spreadsheet for your language:

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2) Wait a few minutes for Google Docs  to make the updates visible here.

3) In Poker Copilot, from the Tools menu, select “Download Language Pack Updates”. They’ll be fetched live from Google Docs:

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4) Restart Poker Copilot

Now you’ll see the updates directly in Poker Copilot:

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You can get hold of an unofficial early release of Poker Copilot already with this feature here: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.102_rc8.dmg

 

 

 

Coming in the Next Update: HUD Layout has an extra row of stats

An extra row of stats. You can now show up to 16 stats at once:

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Pre-emptive comment: “That’s nice, Steve, but what we really need are more stats, not just more room to show the stats that are already there”. I hear ya. I’ll be looking at some stats soon.

Unofficial Poker Copilot Update for Ongame Network

Ongame Network updated their Mac OS X software two days ago. This new software doesn’t work with the current Poker Copilot release. So I’ve made some adjustments to fix these problems.

But this is more than just a fix. Finally, Poker Copilot’s HUD works with Ongame Network, although for now, only with BetFair:

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Download this unofficial update here. Feedback welcome.

Please let me know what other Ongame Network Mac software you use so I can add Poker Copilot HUD support.

 

Reason I Like My Mac #17,823

I read up on the new features in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) some months ago but I still encounter pleasant surprises:

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Yes, Lion, “Duplicate and Revert” is actually exactly what I want. Nice.

 

Updated Poker Copilot Demo Video

In preparation for Poker Copilot 3, I’ve updated the demo video. This needed to be done – many of the HUD improvements weren’t there.

I’ve noticed that for many people, Poker Copilot’s HUD is _the_ reason to use Poker Copilot. So the demo focuses on the HUD.