Do you remember flipbooks? We used to make them at school. A sort of inexpensive way to do animation. Flipbooks are back with iStopMotion 1.9. And running it on the new Intel iMac and MacBook Pro feels like Christmas in January.

Kids will love this new feature, at school or at home. If you want to keep them excited, they need to be able to take their work with them. With Flipbook printing, they can print out their animation and take it home to show it to friends and family in an easy and inexpensive way.

What's new in iStopMotion 1.9

• Flipbook Printing - Print good old flipbooks from your animation.
• Universal Application - Runs natively on new iMac and MacBook Pro.

More Information...

2005 became 2006, Apple moves to Intel, and FotoMagico users will update to Boinx FotoMagico 1.5 (free for all current license holders). Impress your audience with 10 new, gorgeous transitions, run it natively the new Intel iMac or MacBook Pro as a Universal Application, use your favorite songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store in live presentations and make your slideshow match the length of your music track.

What's new in 1.5

• Transitions
  Gorgeous transitions in full quality.
• Universal Application
  Runs natively on new iMac and MacBook Pro.
• Present on any screen
  If you have two displays connected, choose on which to run the show on.
• Adjust slides to Audio
  Have a set of slides match the length of a song.
• iTunes Music Store
  Use songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store for live slideshows.

Check out the new version. Available now and as a free update for currently registered users.

Thanks to all our beta testers. There will soon be a page recognising your contribution - after we return from Macworld...

Yesterday, we release iStopMotion Version 1.9 and FotoMagico Version 1.5. Come and see both at the Macworld Booth.

This is what the booth looked like yesterday morning, before people started to come in:

And this is what the booth looked like most of the time during the day:

Vera has got some pictures and a brief report in German from her first day in London at BETT over on her weblog.

With Apple finally announcing Macs with Intel (with a very cool ad, btw) it is time to take stock and present a scorecard of where we stand regarding Intel support. Fortunately, we are doing Cocoa apps and were on Xcode from the beginning. Here is the current scorecard:

To be announced new versions running natively:

• iStopMotion 1.9: Available later today.
• FotoMagico 1.5: Available later today.

Both these apps are Universal Binaries available as a free update to current license holders. We need to do some Quality Assurance as soon as we have a final Intel machine, but you will be able to download them later today.

Currently shipping versions running with Rosetta:

• Mouseposé 1.2: works.
• iVeZeen 2.1: works.
• MiracleSight: Doesn't work. Apparently, plug ins of an application running on Intel natively also must be Intel code.

These apps will be brought forward to native support as soon as resources permit.

Here is some more information on versions that may be installed on your machine:

• iStopMotion 1.8.4: Works with Rosetta, but free update to 1.9 recommended.
• FotoMagico 1.2.6: Does not work with Rosetta on our test machine. Free update to FotoMagico 1.5 recommended.

Looking back, it was quite easy to reach this point. Michael did a lot of the work (which mostly consisted of reconfiguring the Xcode projects to use gcc 4 and a cleaner project layout) at WWDC in June and Achim and Peter used the opportunity at an Apple developers kitchen to get most of the rest of the work done. Turns out it was good planning to have the Universal Binaries available for Macworld.

Sometimes we feel like we are on top of a mountain in the sunset. (Actually this picture was taken yesterday on top of Twin Peaks.)

We had to stuff a lot of technology (and boxes with YoYos) into the 1 sqm booth. More about the features of the "Boinx High Tech Booth" later on this weblog. Let's just say for now that the neighbours were impressed... Now the booth is ready for action.

BTW, Werner is blogging this in German.

This year's collector's item: The Boinx YoYo. Come and get yours at the Boinx Software Booth on the Special Interest Pavilion.