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Brandsonic Web for Mac and Big Sur

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You may have seen that I recently tweeted the Big Sur icon for Brandsonic Web for Mac. As I mentioned in the tweet, it was created by /u/1Gigabite on Reddit. I'd like to thank them for taking the time to make this icon for me. It's far better than anything I could do myself. This is the official Big Sur icon. This icon will only be used as the Big Sur icon for Brandsonic Web for Mac. It will not be replacing the current Brandsonic Web logo. I plan to release a version with the new icon included. However, for now, I have released a download of the ICNS file so that you can change the icon if you are on Big Sur. You can get it below.  I don't know if the current release of Brandsonic Web for Mac works on Big Sur, and I don't currently have a way to test it myself. I don't have a Mac capable of running Big Sur, officially or unofficially. I also have no way of testing it on the new Apple Silicon Macs. I plan to release a Universal binary version of Brandsonic Web for M

Brandsonic Web for Mac 0.10

Brandsonic Web for Mac 0.10 is the biggest release of Brandsonic Web for Mac yet. It's so big that I felt that it was time to bump the version number to 0.10. This is the first Brandsonic Web for Mac release in over 3 years. It includes major new features like the the ability to change the home page and search provider in the new preferences window. You can now choose Bing or DuckDuckGo as your search provider instead of Google. The default is still Google. I plan to add more search providers in the future.  This is also one of the most tested versions of Brandsonic Web for Mac. I tested it on 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.13 and 10.14. There is an issue on older macOS versions. You won't be able to visit some sites because of SSL issues. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do about this.  I removed Google+ from Quick Sites because it was shut down last year. I added DuckDuckGo to Quick Sites in the search engine section. This is the first change to Quick Sites since its introduct

Update on Brandsonic Web

It has been over 2 years since that last release of Brandsonic Web for iOS. My life has been pretty crazy the last two years. School keeps me very busy and I simply haven't had the time to devote to Brandsonic Web. As you may have seen on Twitter, I took and completed the 100 Days of Swift challenge last month. My ultimate goal was to a rewrite Brandsonic Web mobile for iOS in Swift. I have started work on this and it's coming along rather nicely. However it's not ready for release and I don't know when it will be. I plan to release a new version of Brandsonic Web for iOS with a fix for the "The operation couldn’t be completed" bug and official iOS 12 support. I will be testing this release over the next few days to make sure I was fixed the problem. If all goes well I hope to release this update soon. I am still using Xcode 10.1 on High Sierra as I don't have a Mac capable of running Mojave or Catalina officially. This is why I can't add official