Updating to 2010 Edition

December 03, 2010

If you have received your 2010 edition recently, you might discover that it does not run successfully with Watchtower Library for Mac. So far as initial tests can tell, it does not run with Wine; that includes later versions. Until the problem is resolved, you can perform a little workaround to update your 2009 edition with 2010’s information. Instructions follow.

Starting assumption: you have installed Watchtower Library for Mac and installed the 2009 edition.

Locate the rs_data folder

This folder is where Watchtower Library editions store all the books, magazines, brochures, etc. You can find it if you start at your home folder. This is the folder represented by a little house, not your Macintosh HD folder. Then navigate to

Library
	Application Support
		Watchtower Library
			drive_c
				Program Files
					Watchtower
						Watchtower Library 2009
							E

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RSS Feeds

May 14, 2010

RSS feeds are now available at this site. You can use these to automatically track news, posts and comments. There are three feeds:

• Watchtower Library for Mac News
• Watchtower Library for Mac Posts
• Watchtower Library for Mac Comments

Just click then drag the links to a feed-reader, such as Apple Mail or Safari. For example, you can click a feed link then drag the address (at the lefthand corner of the address bar) to your Safari bookmarks bar. Safari will then keep you up-to-date.

This will help me to keep track of your questions without my checking manually every day. It will also help you keep track of answers.

Cloud Platform

May 13, 2010

Watchtower Library for Mac website has a new host as of today. It lives on Heroku, a Rails cloud platform with storage pulling from Amazon’s Web Storage service. Oops, I’m having a geek moment. In English, I mean that the website should respond faster no matter where you are in the world. The old service ran out of Dallas. The new “cloud” platform serves from multi-data centres depending on which continent your browser requests originate from. Oops again. Slipping back to geek speak.

There is another new feature of the site: it has multi-language capability. The website detects which language you are using and adapts its content accordingly. A number of brothers and sisters are helping me to complete the necessary translations. There is not that much content to translate. In due course, you should find the site appearing in your native tongue.