Larry Klug, FotoMagico Expert, posts his first show created with FotoMagico 2 beta. The pictures were taken on Friday, January 12th and Saturday, January 13th in northern California, some of them at Suzanne Ciani's studio. You can clearly see one of the new features which is the logo in the lower left corner which is visible throughout the slideshow. Suzanne's music, such as the soundtrack for this slideshow called "Ocean Avenue", is available from iTunes.

Scott Gilbertson picks FotoMagico as his topic for MacMonth at Wired's Monkey Bytes blog:

"Today's Mac software gem is FotoMagico from Boinx Software which is designed to help you transform a slideshow from boring monotony to entertaining masterpiece. FotoMagico goes far beyond the limited slideshow offerings of something like iPhoto to help you create slideshows your friends might actually sit through."

Just before we are off to San Francisco, here is the first public beta of FotoMagico. Highlights of FotoMagico 2:

• Create standalone slideshows
• Make Screensavers
• Brand your slideshows with a watermark

Boinx Software is proud to be a sponsor of Animadness 2007. The competition begins at 11:59PM EST on Friday, February 23, 2007. Register now.

We do not have a booth this year, but Oliver will be giving a short seminar at the Digitial Photography Experience entitled "How to tell a story - From Photo to Slideshow" each day of the exhibition (Jan 9th to Jan 12th) at 1pm. I created a category for the Macworld 2007 posts, so if there is anything interesting to report, you will find it there.

2006 ends as a very successful year for Boinx Software. We finally got iStopMotion into the Apple Retail stores and managed to grow our US business by almost 60% compared to 2005. Worldwide the growth was almost 50%. For 2007 we have great ambitions. Starting at Macworld in January where Oliver will be giving a 45 minute seminar on how to make great slide shows each day at The Digital Photography Experience. At the same time, at BETT in London, iStopMotion will be featured prominently at the Create at BETT booth. In March, we will exhibit with a small booth at PMA 07 in Las Vegas. We could almost stay there because just four weeks later, at NAB, we will have the biggest booth in company history and hope to make a big impression on the pros. Plans for 2007 also include major new versions for our apps, a pro HD setup for iStopMotion, great new stuff with Quartz Composer and more. Of course we will keep you updated through Boinx Chronicles and the Newsletter we send out roughly monthly. We hope 2006 was as good to you as it was to us and wish you all the best for 2007. Oliver Breidenbach for the Boinx Software Team.

Alex Amelines, Senior Animator, NOWWASHYOURHANDS UNITEDKINGDOM DESIGNCOMPANY