Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on January 12th, 2005

ZDNet: “With podcasting on track to follow in blogging’s footsteps, multimedia-casting won’t be far behind”

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 22nd, 2004

Today, we’re happy to announce our newest product – Slipstream. Slipstream is the first and best way to send audio from any application directly to remote speakers attached to Apple’s renowned AirPort Express device. With Slipstream, audio from any application can be sent to remote speakers. Users longing to send audio from applications like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player need look no further than Slipstream. With the introduction of Slipstream, the AirPort Express won’t just be for iTunes any more.

Slipstream is due out in early 2005. Learn more on the Slipstream web page or read the full press release for today here.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on December 22nd, 2004

PacificTech: The Graphing Calculator Story

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 21st, 2004

It’s been a big year and we’ve got big plans for the future. For now, however, we’d like to wish everyone happy holidays and a happy new year. We also thought we’d do a little year-end wrap-up. Without further ado, may we present 2004 – The Year That Was:

In January, Rogue Amoeba exhibited at Macworld San Francisco, and Nicecast earned a Best Of Show award.

February brought a major update for Nicecast, with the release of version 1.5. It’s now up to version 1.7

We started work on Audio Hijack Pro 2 in March, but it wasn’t until the end of July that it was finally released. We also unveiled Detour 1.5 in July. Audio Hijack Pro is now up to version 2.1.1 with Detour at 1.5.2.

In October, Nicecast was again honored, with an O’Reilly OS X Innovators Award. November brought praise from across the Atlantic, with Audio Hijack Pro earning a MacUser UK Award as Utility Of The Year.

Finally, in December we earned yet another award when Nicecast won a prestigious Macworld Editor’s Choice (or “Eddy”) award. That’s all for now. Thanks to everyone who’s helped and supported us this year, and as always, stay tuned for more big things from Rogue Amoeba.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 20th, 2004

Rogue Amoeba Software is pleased to introduce the newest member of our team – Clamps, the CD duplication robot. Clamps is a Primera Bravo II CD duplicator with a 50 disc capacity, a 52x drive, and a 4800 dpi inkjet printer. Basically, we have our own company robot, and really, who doesn’t like robots?

Say Hello To Clamps

We don’t plan to use the included printer unless necessary, as ink costs alone are between 60 and 75 cents per disc. Instead we’re having some blank CD-rs pre-printed with our artwork. Then when we’re ready to make some CDs, we just stick these in, burn, and drop them in a simple CD sleeve. The cost for this method about 70 cents a piece, so it winds up being cheaper and coming out better than local printing.

We’ll be using Clamps to make short runs of CDs for user group meetings. As well, we’ll eventually bring our sales process in-house, at which point it will make sense to mail out our own CDs. Currently, our payment processor sells CDs at an expensive $9.95 a pop. The software is always freely available for download, but some users prefer a hard copy and we sell an average of one CD per day or so. At $5 a disc we’d probably sell many more and be able to better serve those customers who want the discs.

We have other longer term plans for which Clamps will be helpful, and we can even use him to make larger runs (for things like Macworld) if we have a small amount of lead time. But most importantly, we’ll never again have waste in the form of leftover CDs that quickly go out of date. With the new duplicator, we can create anything we need on-demand, instead of using a pressing company and getting hurt by long lead times. That’s good for the company, good for the customers, and it’s even good for the environment, and there’s nothing wrong with that.