New Beta of Unread for macOS Adds Dock Icon Options, Fullscreen Image Improvements, Handoff Support, and More

A new beta version of Unread for macOS is available via TestFlight. You can join the Unread for macOS beta now if you have not already done so.

Important Reminder: With this update the ⌘M keyboard shortcut minimizes the current window. It no longer toggles the read/unread status of the currently selected article. I described the rationale for this change in a blog post a couple weeks ago. Going forward ⌘⇧U will be the keyboard shortcut for marking the current article read or unread.

Dock Icon Options

This build adds the ability the choose an alternate icon to appear in the dock for Unread while it is running. To choose an alternate icon, open the Settings window and select the Dock Icon pane. This functionality will require a subscription to Unread’s premium features when Unread for macOS is released.

Fullscreen Image Improvements

When viewing an image fullscreen, Unread will retrieve and display a higher resolution version of that image when one is found in a link around that image:

<a href="image-highresolution.jpeg"><img src="image-lowresolution.jpeg"></a>

Unread will also retrieve and display a higher resolution version of that image when available in a srcset attribute:

<img srcset="image-lowresolution.jpeg 2000w, image-highresolution.jpeg 4000w">

When image caching is enabled, Unread will cache the version shown in the article ahead of time. When a higher resolution version is available for viewing fullscreen, that higher resolution version is not cached ahead of time.

When viewing an image fullscreen, Unread now shows a progress indicator if and when it is retrieving a higher resolution version of that image. It also fades in the higher resolution version of the image nicely.

When showing an image fullscreen, a context menu is available letting you save the image, copy the image, copy a link to the image, or share the image. Commands in that context menu operate on the higher resolution version of the image when it is being shown fullscreen.

Handoff

This build adds handoff support. If you have an article open on one device, you can easily open that article on the other device. This also works for most article lists.

Using handoff between a Mac and iPhone or iPad requires that the iPhone or iPad be running Unread 3.8 or later.

Additional Improvements

• This update fixes formatting bugs in Engadget articles. These fixes will apply to Engadget articles downloaded after installing this update.
• There is now better visual feedback after clicking an article action toolbar button.
• When there are article action errors, the Article Actions settings pane will state this and provide a button for opening the Article Action Errors window.
• This build fixes bugs that caused duplicate images from some articles from The Verge when syncing with Feedly.
• This build fixes a bug that would cause copying or saving an image to fail under some circumstances.
• This build fixes a crash that would sometimes occur when opening the app via the widget.

You can join the Unread for macOS beta now if you have not already done so.