Jim Everett demoed FotoMagico on "Lab With Leo Laporte" Episode 104 in November. He showed how to create interesting and compelling high-definition slideshows with accompanying music, for display on large screen TVs, to engage and impress people.

Top European developers have banded together to offer a Mac software feast. “Give Good Food to Your Mac” is open to holiday shoppers for the next ten days. The more products you order, the steepert the discount. iStopMotion Home and FotoMagico Express are on the menu.

Wedding and sports photographer Ben Chen hosts two seminars "How to Capture 'Killer' Football, Basketball & Baseball Images" in January featuring FotoMagico:

• Saturday, January 5, 2008 - Imaging USA, Tampa , FL
• Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, CA

An article at the Apple Developer Connection tells the story of how FotoMagico was developed and what motivates Peter Baumgartner, the principal developer.

Apple has finally released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Boinx Software will provide updates of our products over the next couple of days to ensure full compatibility. Here is an overview of the current status and immediate action items:

• General Issues — All products using the built-in Kagi store (iStopMotion 2, FotoMagico 2 and Mouseposé 2) have an issue with printing and saving the receipt for your purchase. We will provide updates as soon as we receive a new module from Kagi. You can purchase licenses and you will receive an email with all relevant purchase data from Kagi.
• iStopMotion 1.x and 2.x — Both iStopMotion 1.10.3 and iStopMotion 2.0 already work nicely on Mac OS X Leopard. A maintenance release (2.0.1) resolving a few minor issues discovered after 2.0 will be out soon. If you are still using one of the FC versions of iStopMotion 2.0, this is the time to update to 2.0 final. Update: We have just identified a problem with printing flip books. Updates will follow.
• FotoMagico — FotoMagico 2.1.3 and up work nicely. If you are using any earlier version you need to update to version 2.1.3 before upgrading to Leopard.
• Mouseposé — Mouseposé 2.5.2 solves a cosmetic issue with the TalkThrough feature.
• iVeZeen — iVeZeen generally works great on Leopard. However, there's one caveat: When you record very short movies (only a few seconds long), it sometimes happens that the files end up being 2 GB large, even though the only should be a few MB. We never saw the problem when recording longer movies with more than 30 seconds. This seems to be a problem rooted in QuickTime and we are working with Apple to resolve it ASAP.

We have also released a number of Quartz Composer Patches. In general, Quartz Composer Patches developed for Tiger do not work on Leopard. This is due to good changes in the Programming Interface that make Quartz Composer Patches on Leopard much better.

• Line — The Line patch is no longer needed as Leopard now comes with an equivalent. Boinx Line 1.0 will remain Tiger only.
• SetStructureMember — SetStructureMember 1.0 is Tiger only. SetStructureMember 2.0 beta should work on Leopard and unless there are issue reports we will soon release it as final.

A big "Merci Beaucoup" to the readers of MacGeneration who voted FotoMagico "Best Creative Application 2007" at the MacGeneration Trophées.

Pierre Groleau of Application Systems Paris accepted the award on our behalf.