First Countdown Maker Sale!
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Today my company, Trimonix, sold it’s first copy of it’s first product. Yay us! Trimonix is made up of my friend Sam and me (no I am not talking in third person, my best friend’s name is really Sam what are the odds?). Countdown Maker, our first product, allows you to create countdown videos (videos with numbers on them that descend to zero over time when something usually happens upon reaching zero) really easily. We designed it with youth ministers in mind who don’t know the first thing about video. Today is an exciting day for us.
The thing that sets Countdown Maker out from its competitors (believe it or not someone else has also made a program that makes countdowns) is its super simple user interface first off. Countdown Maker is written in Cocoa which means that it looks really pretty on the Mac and that it works really well with Mac OS X. You can also export out videos in multiple, professional-grade video formats. You can even export uncompressed if you want to use in FinalCut or AfterEffects. Countdown Maker also offers a real-time preview of your video that is powered by Apple’s farily new Quartz Composer technology.
Definitely head over to our website and download a free trial. You’ll love it.
The iDisk Sucks
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So I bought .mac in January when I started at LifeChurch.tv because I got an iMac at work. I figured getting .mac would simplify syncing all of my data across my two computers.
So I just wanted to put some wallpapers on my iDisk to I could use them on my iMac at work. It takes so long. It has to close every file, which takes forever. When you want to delete something, it has to check it for several seconds and the deletes it. If it was speedy, I would like it a lot better maybe. Even trying to drag a file to it in Finder, it gives you an error. You have to click it first and wait almost a minute for it to connect, then you can drag your files (and then wait for it to check and close each file). The $99 is worth syncing everything between my two macs, but the iDisk is worthless. I’d rather use email, FTP, or a flash drive instead.
Social Graph API
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Google just released their Social Graph API. It sounds amazing. I plan to mess with it a bit for the new samsoffes.com. It just uses XFN and FOAF which has been out for years. It’s really cool. Check out the video.
ExpressionEngine Kills My PageRank
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We’ve detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.
That is what Google says kills my PageRank. ExpressionEngine says that this is feature. Routing all of my not found pages to my home page and returning a success error code. I asked if they would fix it and they said no.
Solution: write my own engine. I’ve already started. This will make the 8th engine I’ve used and the 10th design. I like making web sites.
Data Portability
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DataPortability.org is a project that aims to connect all of the networks that you are a part of into one system to make all of you data easy to manage. I don’t know how this works yet, but it seems really cool. I’m all for open standards and sharing of data. Check out their website. I want to get involved. Hopefully we’ll see some of this implemented at LifeChurch.tv.