This is just a quick note to announce that my second iPhone app, Big Picture, has just been approved by Apple. This is a simple but elegant client for boston.com’s The Big Picture blog. To learn more about the app, follow the link.
With the release of Firefox 3.5 earlier this week, the discussion around HTML5 and its native support for video and audio tags suddenly gained speed. One of the major issues around these new features is the lack of proper video codecs that can be used. Apple’s Safari supports H.264, but Firefox and other open source browsers can’t, due to licensing problems. Their adopted open source format, OGG, seems like the way to go, but it’s not that easy to generate, especially if you are on a Mac.
Yesterday, John Gruber from Daring Fireball published a lengthy post about possible solutions for OGG conversion on Mac, and his suggestion was to use Jan Gerber’s excellent ffmpeg2theora. I thought I would spend some time and build a simple GUI wrapper for this tool so it would be more easily adopted by Mac users. Today I am releasing an early beta version of Oggifier, a simple GUI wrapper around ffmpeg2theora.
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that Apple has finally approved Movie Genie yesterday night and it is now available on the iTunes Store. Contrary to what I expected, the approval process was painless, and Apple did a very good job of reviewing the app for possible defects.
I hope that people will enjoy this first app, I am very excited to be building on this platform. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to email me or leave your thoughts here.
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but I do have a good excuse this time. Last month, I decided to finally start learning Objective-C and getting into iPhone & Mac development. Being a Mac user for 18 years now, developing on the platform has been one of my dreams.
Today, I am happy to announce my first iPhone app, Movie Genie - a mobile IMDb client. It’s open for beta testing at this point, and I welcome everyone interested in trying it out and giving feedback.
I just found out about this Django application called django-rosetta that uses the Google AJAX Language API to suggest translations for translatable strings in your project. Even more interesting is the admin-like interface it creates to enter translations directly from a browser - and it doesn’t need any database tables, everything is directly written to translation files. I didn’t try it out yet, but if it works as advertised, it could become one of my default applications.
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