Cadent Computing Inc.

On July 17, 2015, at 8:45am EST, the provider who hosts the Cadent web site as well as syncing services experienced what they called a "catastrophic hardware failure”.  They were not able to recover the lost sites/systems from backups.  Their summary: "We are now classifying this as a complete data loss.”  Certainly not news anyone wants to hear.

I had occasionally taken snapshots of the entire system, but as it is several gigabytes of data, I did not do this very often.  I basically was trusting that the provider was doing daily backups which would work so I was very lax in these snapshots.

This weekend, I rebuilt the site from the last snapshot I had.  It was from Oct. 15, 2014!!!  The web site has not changed at all since then so there was no loss there.  It has taken awhile to get the security certificate (SSL certificate) properly re-installed.  As such, many customers have seen communication errors and other such problems.  As of this writing, the certificate seems to be working, but I have seen the occasional failure possibly due to residual caching.  

The latest version of Cadent wineCellar does work fine with Apple's latest OS release: Mountain Lion (10.8).  There is one exception: installing a new copy of wineCellar once you have upgraded to Mountain Lion from the installer you get from our web site will be blocked by Gatekeeper.  Installing from the Mac App Store will work fine.

The workaround is to temporarily tell Gatekeeper to let you run applications from anywhere.  You will find this setting under the Security & Privacy system preference.  Once you have successfully run wineCellar once, you can return this setting back to where you would like it.

Cadent is doing market research on its latest endeavour and needs your help.  If you are an app developer (mobile, desktop, or web), please click on the link below to be taken to our market research survey and you will be entered to win an iPad (3rd generation).  The survey will end on July 15, 2012 at which time we will be making the draw.

• Cadent DaaS Survey.

Version 1.15 of wineCellar for the iPhone/iPad is now available on the Apple App Store.  This update addresses this issue:

• Under iOS 5, tapping the label field would leave the app stuck on either the camera or photo album panes.

Cadent wineCellar for both Mac and Windows has been updated to version 2.19. 

The following enhancement has been made:

theLocBox for both Mac and Windows has been updated to version 1.2. 

Version 1.9 of wineCellar for the iPhone/iPad is now available on the Apple App Store.  This update addresses these issues:

• Label field did not work for iPad 2. Now it works the same as iPhone 4..
• Importing very large photos to iPad (via camera connector) would cause a problem with syncing: server would fail the sync due to photo being too big. iPad now "shrinks" photo to a more reasonable size.

Cadent wineCellar for both Mac and Windows has been updated to version 2.16. 

The following enhancements have been made:

• A Preference pane has been added.  It currently only has the controls for List Tab management.
• The Preference pane allows your to controls the layout of the list on the List Tab.  You can alter the order of the columns as well as hide columns you do not want to see.
• The Print Columns option has been removed from the View menu.  The columns being displayed on the List Tab are what get printed.
• The Preference settings for the List Tab are persistent and loaded each time wineCellar is launched.  The width of the columns is also stored.  Note: the sort order is not stored due to a graphics issue we are still looking into.

The following bugs have been addressed in this release:

Cadent wineCellar for both Mac and Windows has been updated to version 2.14.  The following issue has been addressed:

• In version 2.12, a bug was introduced whereby some wine entries appear to be deleted, but show up again when wineCellar is re-launched.

Cadent is proud to announce that Cadent wineCellar 2.12 (Mac Version) is now available on the Apple App Store!  Priced the same as the current "licensed" version at $24.99US, the App Store version has all the same features.

You can sync any of the Cadent wineCellar apps with the Cadent Cloud for the purpose of keeping them all in sync with each other.  Currently, there are 5 variations of Cadent wineCellar:

• Mac Version (licensed).
• Mac Version (App Store).
• Windows Version (licensed).
• iOS Version (App Store, iPhone and iPad universal).
• Cadent Cloud web site.