The VLC team are aiming to publish VLC 2.1 this weekend. (21/22 Sept)
We’re just putting the final touches on our update to support VLC 2.1, but it will take a few days for Microsoft to approve them.
Please watch this space – don’t upgrade quite yet…
We have now released a full version of VLC Streamer – thank you to everyone who has helped during the beta testing.
The beta build will expire in a few days, and it will ask you to upgrade. At that point, you can either keep the free version, or get the paid version.
The free version is ad-supported, and it also disables the ability to copy movies to the device for watching later. The full version has no ads, and you can copy movies over.
As a way of thanking our beta users, we’re keeping the price at $1 initially to let you switch over to the full version for a thoroughly reasonable price!
You can get the full version here:
We just launched a beta of VLC Streamer for Android.
VLC Streamer lets you sit anywhere in your house, and stream movies from your Mac/PC to your Android.
During the beta, you get the full functionality for free.
Please report any bugs or issues at our forum
You can get it here:
If you have multiple monitors connected to a mac, then this might interest you.
I just launched my first app in the Mac Appstore. It’s called Multi Monitor Wallpaper.
It lets you take one large image and apply it across your monitors.
You can move and scale the image, and even tweak the exact layout of your monitors.
My app cuts up the image and applies it across your screens.
Let me know what you think!
You can get it at the Mac Appstore
If you’d like to test the new VLC Remote, and you can spare time to give regular rebuilds a thorough test and write feedback, then please let me know.
Please email me at rob at hobbyistsoftware dot com – let me know
1) what devices you have,
2) why you’ll be a good tester.
I can only have a very limited number of testers, so don’t be offended if you don’t get in…
I just released an update for iBrowse which does two things.
I use this when I’m browsing a news site. I go to news.bbc.co.uk, and I can now click and hold on a link, then select ‘open in background tab’. That story starts loading, and I pick a few other stories to load in the background.
Now I switch to coverflow view and swipe to one of the stories (which has probably already loaded by now).
It’s only $1, and there is a free version to try!
iBrowse is available as ever at the App Store.
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Apple approved version 4.52 last night – so the (very stupid) skin bug is now fixed.
You should be able to use the default skin in all its glory.
I’ll have some simple variations on that skin along shortly – and if you have any artistic skills, then please do consider trying your hand at creating a skin too!
You can get rid of pages (or bookmarks, or history for that matter) by tapping on the trash icon in the flow-mode view.
More fun is just to throw the page off the top of the screen!
Watch the linked video to see this (and other features) in action…
Shake your iPod or iPhone to hide the bottom toolbar and get full screen browsing.
To bring it back, just shake again, or tap on the bottom of the screen.
Or, just tap the down arrow to hide the toolbar, and tap at the bottom of the screen to bring it back.