A huge small update for FotoMagico: Version 1.2.4 offers huge speed improvements with very smooth pan & zoom and new HD/H.264 Export. More Information...

Be also sure to get the high res demo slideshow if you have a big screen and a fast machine. It is worth it!

What was supposed to be a minor update turned into a very substantial learning experience. The team got many new insights into Mac OS X threads and OpenGL. So, it took a while to get out of the door. Now we can focus on the next major release...

French magazine Vous et Votre Mac reviews FotoMagico in Issue #7: "FotoMagico est un véritable logiciel multimédia grâce auquel vous créerez de très beaux diaporamas, à la frontière de l'animation et de la vidéo." The article also serves as a short tutorial.

Steffen Tröger of Go!Le Go! released a new brickfilm called "in deep ROYAL water" which is " on a true story out of minifigs fairyland... It contains heavy stunts and some things may appear "bigger" as they are..." (Brickfilms). The movie was made in few hours per week over a three month period.

It is still quite complicated to publish podcasts. So. I've written up a tutorial on how to do it with a .Mac account so that people might be able to figure it out.

By the way, you can also use iVeZeen to record video podcasts.

Ususally, we don't compare iStopMotion to competing products. But if other people do it, it is much more credible. Found on the weblog "I Kill Spies": "Boinx iStopMotion is a super slick way to make stop motion animation extremely easily. [...] Much much sexier than Stop Motion Pro, which needed a Windows machine."

Boinx Software was invited to attend the vendor fair at the ADE Summer Institute in San Jose, CA. this week. I took the opportunity to meet with Apple ADEs and talk to them about strategies for using technology in the classroom. It was a fantastic and energising crowd (Technorati: ade2005). The vendor fair was an exciting event with many ADEs stopping by to express their enthusiasm about iStopMotion and FotoMagico. They were doing a number of interesting projects and I got to be able to help one group to get up a podcast.

Schoolzone, "The School Support Site" has awarded a 5 star rating to the iStopMotion website. Schoolzone is the UK's most active teacher community, with over 80,000 registered users, 2300 fully-profiled teacher consultants and thousands of online users.

Here is a cool idea for Apple Marketing: Even if they don't flat out offer Mac OS X for any Intel PC, they could use a time limited version of the Universal Binary System that runs on every Intel PC hardware to let people test drive it to lure them over.

In its May/June 2005 issue, the Kleper Report on Digital Publishing takes a look at FotoMagico: "FotoMagico is a sophisticated slideshow application that incorporates many features not found elsewhere." The report also briefly mentions Mouseposé and iVeZeen.