All three applications have received some fundamental changes to their looks and their inner workings. They are also all Universal Binary applications now, running natively on the new Intel-based Macs.

This page explains the upgrading procedure, what's new in version 3.0 and provides answers to some of the most important questions regarding the new version.
If you have further questions or need help with the upgrading process, email us at

The brushed metal look has been toned down to match the new iTunes interface - a polished, light grey instead of the harsher metal (if you want even less metal check out our extras page). Also, the info drawer on the side of the main window has been retired and replaced with the info view - a customizable web view that can be used in conjunction with the table or the cover view or on its own. The toolbar buttons have all gotten a little once-over too, to give the applications a cleaner look. The new version 3 applications all come with the following new features in common:

• Library-independent collections, so you can keep certain collections out of your library collection, like DVDs you rented or books you borrowed from the library.
• A links section that allows you to link anything to an entry: web pages, files, images, movies, Video_TS folders, screenshots, text, PDFs, programs and most important other Pedia entries.
  You can link between entries of the same Pedia so that for example all entries in a box set would link to each other. You can also link between programs, so "Harry Potter" the movie can be linked to "Harry Potter" the book in Bookpedia and "Harry Potter" the game in Gamepedia. Most types of links will open straight inside the Pedias again and those that the programs can't open, will launch in their appropiate viewer, such as a Video_TS with DVD Player.
• A new info view which replaces the info drawer. Very customizable, it comes with 14 different templates and allows for everybody to tailor the programs to fit their needs. We look foward to having many more on our extras page as the programs mature.
• Database statistics to provide you with some inside information about your database, like the number of movies you have by Spielberg or which CDs are the most popular ones to be borrowed. The statistics can also be included in the export.
• Collection count display, lets you see at a glance how many entries you have in all your different collections.
• Universal binary for Intel Macs.
• As well as many other refinements: Autofill in the table view, translucent cover display for the drag icon, updated widget, improved spotlight plugin, improved drag and drop...

In addition, each Pedia has received application specific feature additions, bug fixes and improvements. For a detailed list of each application's update list, check out the 'What's New?' page of the application. Because the inner workings of version 3 of the Pedias are completely different, the database needs to be updated before it can run with this new version. That means the actual data file for each Pedia application (the file by default located in User/Library/Application Support/[Name of the Pedia]) has to be updated. The program will do this automatically the first time you open version 3.

As a precaution and also in case you would like to go back to version 2.3, the program will create a backup of your current data folder named "Previous 2.0 ...pedia".
No, if you'd prefer to keep using the old 2.3 version of your Pedia, you may do so for as long as you like. However please be aware that at this point version 2 is NOT supported anymore. Once you have purchased the upgrade and are happy with the new program and have run it for several weeks you can remove the "Previous 2.0 ...pedia" folder. If you ever created any custom templates, make sure you have copied them to the new folder and updated them before deleting the folder.
On a related note, always remember to backup your important data including your Pedia data folder on a regular basis.
Because the Pedias all create a new database folder during the upgrade, the templates folder will also be new. The old templates folder is still there for you to access, in case you wrote any templates of your own or changed some of the existing ones. You can find the old templates folder in the folder called "Previous 2.0 [Name of the Pedia], which is located in User/Library/Application Support. The Pedia templates have all received new placeholders - instead of the old <--Name--> tag they now read [Key:Name]. This new format has the great advantage that the tags do not have to be hard-coded into the program like the old ones, meaning that if we forget to include a tag, the program can still display the field in the template because all it needs to look for now is '[Key:' and display whatever field it encounters afterwards.
And since all the Pedias run on a shared framework now this means that there is a lot less coding involved and a lot less worrying about whether all the tags have been included. The cover images (all those .jpg files that were flying around in your Pedia data folder before) have been moved to a dedicated folder now, imaginatively called 'Covers'. The folder is located inside your Pedia data folder alongside the other necessary files and folders (info.xml, templates folder, plug-ins folder).