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  • We have not been stranded on an asteroid

    I was looking at the site the other week and realized that it’d been a while since I posted anything “meaningful”.

    So, what has SWB as a company been doing? It seems that days and weeks have flown by!

    First, I’ve hired two new support staff. Feel free to email Brandon and Dave and welcome them aboard (yes, I know, I’m a little late in this announcement). They will be taking over from [...]

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  • Server Migration Complete

    Well, it appears that the migration completed just fine!

    Gotta say – I’m impressed with slicehost/rackspace. Brilliant support during the entire process. Great communication of what was going to happen, and to top it all off – the migration proceeded without a hitch (and was 100% automated apart from me having to verify that it worked OK).

    Great stuff!

    Back to the code ….

  • Server Migration

    Our hosting provider is migrating their datacenter. As a result, we need to move our server (and associated services). This will mean a slight period of downtime within the next 8 hours.

    We have a rollback plan in place, so if it goes “pear-shapped” we’ll switch back to the existing servers and re-attempt the migration once those issues are resolved.

    Of course; we can hope “that it just works” :)

    See you on the other side!

  • OCP, Fixed iShowU HD "can't stop recording"

    I’m happy to report that we’ve found and fixed the problem with iShowU HD whereby you could not stop recording. That’s now available as the latest 2.2.5 beta, which at the time of writing is build number 1282.

    We’ve also updated the One Click Publishing pages. You can now share links to any video using the ShareIt bar below each video recording. The “share / embed” method of the flash player [...]

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  • iShowU HD - Fixed Frame durations & ProRes

    This week I’ve been attacking a few lingering bugs in the Lion side of things. I’m now quite happy where things are at. Recording seems to be working very well, and in addition I even managed to get ProRes working.

    Beginning on Monday I’ll be testing the HD version here on both Lion and Snow Leopard, with a release coming Monday afternoon NZ time. Thanks you to those who sent in crash reports… it is [...]

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