Posted December 10th, 2010 @ 09:14am by Erik J. Barzeski
Still set for an early January 2011 release, Analyzr is coming along quite nicely.
Within the next few weeks we'll have the website finished (it's started as a Photoshop document at this point), we'll figure out what we want to do with our licensing scheme, we'll set up our FastSpring store, we'll set up an LLC, and we'll ship the darn thing.
Feedback from testers continues to be really positive. A few have found bugs (all fixed, and there have only really been about three) and many have written to say specifically how awesome they think the app is and how glad they are that someone's doing something for Mac owners.
We're going to put a good amount of energy into converting Windows owners, too. After all, for many pros their computer is simply a "device." They don't care about the underlying OS so much as they care about the software they run on it. Safari and Mail will cover 90% or so of their "non-video-analysis" time, and Analyzr will cost several hundred dollars less than the "other" software for Windows.
Posted December 9th, 2010 @ 09:00am by Erik J. Barzeski
The Sand Trap .com is switching to the Huddler platform next week. Wednesday is our target date.
I expect that the road will be bumpy. There are a LOT of things I don't like about the forum software they've got, BUT they're willing to listen and my odds of getting a feature through are about a thousand times higher with Huddler than with vBulletin.
Additionally, Huddler is going to take over any and all advertising concerns, so that I can focus simply on the "community" as they call it. Definitely looking forward to that.
Posted December 8th, 2010 @ 08:57am by Erik J. Barzeski
It's the dead of winter and I've not made much progress on my PGA learning stuff. We're trying to get Analyzr shipping ASAP (still on target for early January, 2011), and that's taking up an inordinate amount of time. Also, The Sand Trap is converting to Huddler next week, so that is taking up time as well.
Perhaps I'll be able to study in February and March and take a trip south in early April. But otherwise, I worry that I might not finish out level 1 until early next winter. It wouldn't be a terrible thing - I'm in no real rush to finish out the PGA certification process. We're still going to be in Erie in a few years and I'm pretty well known as an instructor already, largely thanks to working with Dave and helping him to produce videos for YouTube, running The Sand Trap, working at Golf Evolution schools and on the forum, and sharing a few thoughts now and then on a few other sites.
Posted December 7th, 2010 @ 06:11pm by Erik J. Barzeski
A Mac application we're building includes the ability to download YouTube videos, and though we've previously written our own Objective-C code to do this, we're thinking of using this python script, youtube-dl to handle a lot of the process.
I believe we'd rip out (or modify) the script to simply take in a YouTube URL and to spit back out the download URL - perhaps via an NSTask - but I'm not sure. The goal is to be able to update more easily in the future when YouTube changes its URLs or HTML format as they seem to do every few months. We'd also want to get the title of the movie as well, but that shouldn't be all that difficult.
The problem is that once you hack it, it is going to take time to re-hack each subsequent version. Is the true solution to let the script download the movie and just import it immediately?
A distant alternative may be to find some way to use the JavaScript/HTML code found within the YouTube5 extension (which also works on Vimeo videos) ((xar -xf blah.safariextz spits out everything as individual resources.)), but there may be obvious licensing and copyright issues with that, so… probably not.
Posted December 6th, 2010 @ 05:11pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Oooooh, awesome! I'm thinking that one of these and of course one of these at a minimum. And since I'll likely find a way to acquire those, those who love me might want to look at this or this in the 17" x 22" sizes... 😉
Very cool, anyway. Even if I don't have the wall space (or the need) for any of them.
Come to think of it, I still have a number of Think Different posters framed up somewhere… along with the original Apple poster from 2004 showing the runner with an iPod on her hip. Hmmm…
Posted December 3rd, 2010 @ 05:58pm by Erik J. Barzeski
A friend of mine likes his iPhone. Loves it, really. Wants to use it all the time.
Unfortunately, he has terrible cell reception in his house. He gets good reception when he's out.
Simple question, hopefully with a simple answer: is there a solution out there that will give him VOIP calling and answering of phone calls when he's connected to a WiFi network and regular cell phone usage when he's out?
I'm currently well behind on my reading - a perpetual state. I'd love to stop watching TV and use an hour or two each evening to read, but I don't just sit on the couch during TV time, I'm typically watching TV, talking to Carey, working on the computer, emailing, Facebooking, talking on the forums, eating, etc.
About the only one of those things I can do while reading is eating, and I don't do that very often. Plus, I genuinely like a few shows and wouldn't give them up.
And Microsoft estimates it took 10,000 man days of labor to create ((There's no truth to the rumor that Apple responded by saying "Yeah, but engineers as smart as ours could do it in 500.))? That's over 27 years.
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