Windows

We've just posted Life Balance 5.0.5 for Windows. We recommend that all of our Windows customers install the free update. It is a minor bug-fix release of Life Balance that will be beneficial to all our Windows customers.

Thanks to our intrepid set of volunteer testers, Life Balance 5.0.4 is now available for Mac OS X and Windows. The corresponding release of the new iPhone version of Life Balance will also be submitted today and will be available for download exclusively from the iPhone App Store. Typically, it takes about a week for Apple to approve updates. We will post another announcement with the list of changes for iPhone users when the new version appears on the iPhone App Store.

Both the Mac and Windows versions include a number of technical updates. On Mac, we've corrected a couple of problems with iCal sync, iPhone sync, and installation of the Palm conduit. On Windows we've fixed the behavior of conflict icons, corrected the order of events in the calendar views, and sped up iPhone sync dramatically.

On the Mac side, we've also added support for the Sparkle framework, which automatically downloads and installs updates to Life Balance.

Release notes

Download and enjoy!

(This article has been superceded. Now that version 4.1 and 3.5 have been released. Beta attachments have been deleted.)

Life Balance 4.1 and 3.5 are now final candidate builds. There were significant changes prior to making the final candidate builds. We would be grateful if you can take a moment to be sure that these final candidate builds are ready for release into the big wide world.

• As with any beta, you should be sure to have backups of your data in case anything goes wrong.
• You must be a web site member and be logged in to download the beta.
• The Palm edition of Life Balance will upgrade your data to a new format which is not compatible with previous versions. You must have backups of your Palm data in case you need to revert to a previous version of Life Balance.
• Beta builds are slower and larger than regular builds because they include extra code intended to catch and display various conditions and errors.
• Final candidate and release builds are optimized to be faster and smaller than beta builds.
• These final candidate builds have a strict expiration date of September 1, 2008.

We have a new public beta of Life Balance for your perusal. This version includes significant new features and fixes since beta 2, but please take note:

• As with any beta, you should be sure to have backups of your data in case anything goes wrong.
• You must be a web site member and be logged in to download the beta.
• The Palm edition of Life Balance will upgrade your data to a new format which is not compatible with previous versions. You must have backups of your Palm data in case you need to revert to a previous version of Life Balance.
• Beta builds are slower and larger than regular builds because they include extra code intended to catch and display various conditions and errors.
• These beta builds have a strict expiration date of September 1, 2008.

If you want to know how to protect your Life Balance data files from prying eyes, we wrote up a knowledgebase article based on a recent reply to a customer in the support center. This article captures some useful links on the topic of file security for Windows.

If you know of other techniques, please share them in the comments.

Normally, when you install Life Balance on Windows, and you later acquire a Palm device, you can use the "Install Palm Software..." menu item to install the Palm conduit.

It is possible to run into circumstances where the conduit still doesn't show up in the HotSync Manager.

Most of the time, you can solve that easily by restarting the Hotsync Manager or restarting the Windows computer. It can even be necessary to do a clean install of the Palm Desktop software if you have migrated from one Palm OS device to another.