We're pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.3 of iPartition, which is a bug fix release for users of iPartition 3.1.2.

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You'll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select "Check for Updates…" in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you'll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the "Reset Password" button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

It is our intention to discontinue all official support for OS X 10.3 in the near future. When this happens, while we will not intentionally break our products on that platform, if it is not possible (even via CDMaker) to use them we will not consider this to be a bug and instead will ask customers to upgrade to a newer release of Mac OS X. Additionally the system requirements on our website will be updated to reflect this change.

We welcome feedback from any affected customers on this issue, though we do note that the reason for dropping 10.3 support is that it is a significant extra testing and maintenance burden and we believe that relatively few customers will be adversely affected by the change.

Note that, of course, anyone already using our software on a system with 10.3 will be able to continue to use the versions that they are presently using; the change will only apply to new releases.

We're pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.2 of iPartition.

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You'll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select "Check for Updates…" in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you'll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the "Reset Password" button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.9 of iDefrag.

This is a bug fix release. For full release notes, see the iDefrag news page. You'll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select "Check for Updates…" in the iDefrag menu.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you'll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the "Reset Password" button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

Those of you attending WWDC next week may spot a couple of our developers wandering around. Feel free to say hello; we’re quite an approachable bunch.

We often see claims on the Internet that fragmentation isn’t a problem on Mac OS X. We don’t believe that (and indeed, we use iDefrag here ourselves), but past experience suggests that our attempts to refute it are simply labelled as partisan and biased by the highly vocal anti-defragmentation camp.

Anyway, one of our customers today sent us a link to a screenshot showing 6,171 fragments in his swapfile, with the consequent effect on system performance that such a thing implies.

There’s no doubt that HFS+ is better than some other filesystems at avoiding fragmentation, but it certainly isn’t immune. Ironically even SSDs, where you would expect the uniform access time to render fragmentation a problem of the past, still have various problems caused by exactly the same issue¹.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.8 of iDefrag.

This is a bug fix release. For full release notes, see the iDefrag news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iDefrag menu.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.7 of iDefrag.

This is a bug fix release. For full release notes, see the iDefrag news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iDefrag menu.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.1 of iPartition.

This release comes with tentative French localisation. Please report any problems you find. We know that there are a couple of things that are still in English. Many thanks to Ronald Leroux for helping us with the translation.

It also comes with a few other bug fixes. For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

Previous visitors to our website will now notice that we have overhauled our payment process to provide a better user experience for our customers.

We also now accept American Express, though presently only for GBP transactions; if you attempt to put through an AMEX payment in some other currency, the site will convert it to GBP before billing the card—it will show you the converted amounts and alert you to the fact that it has done this.

As part of this change, the way we take payments has changed completely; while we have tested the new pages extensively, it is just possible that there may be one or two teething problems still to iron out, so if that happens please contact us to let us know and we should be able to help.