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DJ-1800 software for deejays updated to version 3.2
MacTech News — ... A fully-featured demo of DJ-1800 is available to download from www.dj1800.com , with the full version retailing at $80. Users who have previously purchased DJ-1800 v1 or v2 can upgrade for $20. Version 3.2 is a free upgrade for users of v3.0 or v3.1. Nicecast and Hercules DJ Controller Rmx support is provided via two new plug-ins, available to download for free from the DJ-1800 web site: www.dj1800.com/plugins.php A demo of Nicecast is available to download from www.rogueamoeba.com , with the full version retailing at $40.

Windows 上好用的擷圖工具 Snapper
applewoods — 幸運的是， Rogue Amoeba 這家以 Mac 音訊軟體為主的公司，其旗下的 Airfoil for Windows 開發人員 David Hammerton 替 Windows 使用者製作了一個免費程式 Snapper ，讓您從此擺脫以往在 Windows 抓圖的麻煩事。 ImageDestination.jpg Snapper 可以說是足以滿足一般 Windows 使用者的螢幕畫面擷取工具，尤其對於同時在使用 Mac OS X 的人來說，其功能的便利性與操作方式倒是類似的，它可讓您擷取整個螢幕、單一視窗以及某個螢幕區域的畫面，每項擷取模式都可透過對應的鍵盤快速鍵來執行，您可以將其設為與 Mac 上相近的快速鍵組合。 同時 Snapper 還運用了“後續處理”的概念，允許您自動或以手動方式來處理擷取的螢幕畫面，提供了更為豐富的選項，如另存為檔案、拷貝至剪貼板、FTP 上傳、作為郵件附件寄送、以其他程式開啟、列印等等；搭配可供自定的鍵盤快速鍵，其實您只要按個快速鍵，便可完成自動化的後續工作。 SnapperMenu.jpg 另外，還值得一提的是，Snapper 也可適用於多螢幕的環境，可擷取橫跨不同桌面的視窗或區域。平時它只會待在 Windows ...

MacVoices #8119: Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba Reports on the C4 Mac Developers Conference
MacVoices — Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba reports in on the C4 Chicago Mac Developer Conference from last week. A limited-attendance event that targets Mac developers of all sizes, C4 featured a who’s who of conference speakers and a variety of opportunities for attendees to interact and learn from each other. Paul talks about who was there, the activities on and off the floor, some of the topics that were discussed and what they say about the future of Mac programming, and the results of the conference programming ...

An iPhone developer's story
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Developer, iPhone, iPod touch If you're curious about developing for the iPhone, but haven't made the plunge yet, you might want to read Rogue Amoeba programmer Mike Ash's 22-step tale of developing NetAwake, which is available in the App Store. It's a fascinating story, with a lot of waiting, a lot of rejection, and a lot of "screwing about in Xcode." "The errors are essentially worthless. I believe I only ever saw Xcode generate one error, over and over and over again, as it encountered a whole bunch of different problems," he ...

CS4 and the App Store
Macworld — ... Illustrator , Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks , plus additional information on Adobe’s video applications . In the Adobe segment, Philip Michaels mentions a webcast of the CS4 launch event. As this podcast went live, a link to that webcast hadn’t appeared yet—we suspect that it will at some point on either the Creative Suite 4 page or Adobe’s home page . In addition to running Rogue Amoeba (which produces such terrific audio applications as Audio Hijack Pro , Fission , Radioshift , and Airfoil ), ...

Radioshift Touch Comes to iPhone, iPod Touch
Cult of Mac — ... Rogue Amoeba Software added to its lineup of innovative audio software titles Monday with the release of Radioshift Touch, software that lets users listen to internet radio anywhere on their iPhone or iPod Touch. ...

Review: Radioshift Touch for iPhone
Macworld — by Christopher Breen , Macworld.com Rogue Amoeba , the single-celled organism behind such stellar Macintosh audio-centric applications as Audio Hijack Pro , Fission , Airfoil , and Radioshift has released its first iPhone/iPod touch application, Radioshift Touch . Like Weather Underground’s WunderRadio ( [image] ), Radioshift Touch streams terrestrial radio stations from around the world to an iPhone or iPod touch connected to Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE networks. (The iPod touch supports only Wi-Fi networks.) ...

Expo Analysis: Paul Kafasis, John Gruber, John Moltz
Macworld — by Dan Moren , Macworld.com In this special edition of the Macworld Podcast from the Expo show floor, I’m joined by a veritable Who’s Who of Mac intelligensia. And also, John Moltz is here. Joining me and Macworld contributor (and erstwhile Crazy Apple Rumors proprietor) Moltz are Daring Fireball’s John Gruber and Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis. Our topic of conversation? Tuesday’s Macworld Expo keynote , with special attention paid to iPhoto ’09, changes at the iTunes Store, and the 17-inch MacBook Pro’s battery. Download Episode #143 ...

MacVoices #914: Macworld Expo - Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba Discusses Pulsar and Radioshift Touch
MacVoices — ... this year didn’t stop Paul Kafasis and the team from Rogue Amoeba from releasing new products. We caught up with Paul wandering the show floor to talk about Pulsar, the app that brings satellite radio to your Mac, and Radioshift Touch, their first iPhone/iPod Touch App that lets you leverage recordings made with their desktop Radioshift product. ...

Apple software updates for March 6
Macsimum News — ... has updated Akvis Decorator, a Mac OS X and Windows compatible plug-in that lets you apply a new texture/color to an object, to version 1.6. The upgrade adds new interface languages (Italian and Portuguese) and fixes some bugs. Rogue Amoeba has released Airfoil 3.2.7, an update of the AirPort Express extender for Mac OS X. The upgrade lets you transmit audio to your iPhone and iPod touch. The Omni Group has updated ...

Vendors optimistic about Macworld Expo 2010
Macworld — ... is still an important part of the Mac community. Some of the excitement comes from the reduced costs companies will have to pay to attend the show. Early January is still peak holiday travel season, so prices usually remain high. For companies transporting several people (sometimes 10 or more), the savings on travel, hotels, and other associated costs by moving the show to February 9 to 13 can be significant. "As a businessman I need to look at all the costs," Paul Kafasis, CEO of Rogue Amoeba Software , told Macworld . "And we need to know that people will be there. We ...

Rogue Amoeba releases Airfoil Speakers Touch
Macsimum News — ... Rogue Amoeba has released Airfoil Speakers Touch. Use it with the Airfoil for Mac or Airfoil for Windows software, and you can now send audio from your computer to your iPhone or iPod touch on the local network. ...

MacVoices #965: Paul Kafasis Introduces Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch
MacVoices — ... Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis discusses the latest addition to their product line, Airfoil Speakers Touch. The iPhone/iPod touch application extends the functionality of the company’s Airfoil desktop software to stream audio of all kinds from your Mac to your mobile device. Paul tells us why you would want to do that, why they are giving the app away for free, and delivers his thoughts on the current state of the iTunes App Store distribution model, as well as his new career as a Twitter philosopher. ...

Mike Ash's Blog
iPhone Development — I've been following Mike Ash's (of Rogue Amoeba) Friday Q&A; blog postings for quite some time now, but don't think I've actually posted about it before. I have been remiss - if you're interested in becoming a power Objective-C programmer, you should be subscribing to Mike's RSS feed and reading his posts religiously. He gets into the guts of the runtime and covers lot of stuff you should know, but can be difficult to learn from the official documentation. ...

Rogue Amoeba software now compatible with Snow Leopard
Macsimum News — ... With the releases of Airfoil 3.3.3 and Audio Hijack Pro 2.9.3, Rogue Amoeba says its entire line of audio software is now fully compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”). Rogue Amoeba is now encouraging all customers to update their applications to the latest versions, then move up to... ...

App Store dejection process jibes, now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... User Interface. (Airfoil, incidentally, is a great app tha lets you send any audio from your Mac or PC out to the AirPort Express, Apple TV, other computers, and with Airfoil Speakers Touch, to your iPhone or iPod Touch.) The developers submitted the updated App in July, only to see it refused because of its use of “Apple-owned Graphic Symbols”. In context, however, these were only used as navigational elements - usage that’s well within Apple’s Mac development rules. The company goes on to explain ...

App Store dejection process - now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... Express, Apple TV, other computers, and with Airfoil Speakers Touch, to your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can use it to send the audio from a YouTube clip you're watching out through an iPhone-attached speaker system, for example.) The developers submitted the updated App in July, only to see it refused because of its use of “Apple-owned Graphic Symbols”. In context, however, these were only used as navigational elements - usage that’s well within Apple’s Mac development rules. The company goes on to explain ...

Rogue Amoeba quits iPhone development over App Store issues
Macworld — ... submitted the updated version in July, they’d expected the app to be available on the store within a week or two, given that it was almost identical to the version already in the store, with merely minor bug fixes. If you’ve read this far, you already know what’s coming next: after being rejected three times, Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.1 was made available on the App Store on Friday, after floating in App Store submission limbo for three-and-a-half months . I recommend checking out  this post on the Rogue Amoeba Website ...

Another One Bites the Dust: Rogue Amoeba No Longer Developing for iPhone
iPhonefreak — ... to approve . Amoeba details the multi-rejection process in a recent blog post . Basically, it boils down to Apple not wanting them to display “Apple-owned Graphic Symbols”–symbols which they’ve implemented previously, and apparently are well within Apple’s guidelines. But no matter, logic does not apply: This. Is. The ...

iPhone app developer quits over approval process
iPhone Atlas — Apple's App Store boasts more than 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads, but not all of its developers are as happy as some would think. One well-respected developer decided to call it quits. Citing his frustration with the App Store approval process , Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis said on his company's blog last week that he is throwing in the towel on ...

iPhone app developer quits over approval process
CNET News - Apple — Apple's App Store boasts more than 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads, but not all of its developers are as happy as some would think. One well-respected developer decided to call it quits. Citing his frustration with the App Store approval process , Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis said on his company's blog last week that he is throwing in the towel on ...

MacVoices #9118: Paul Kafasis Talks About Why Rogue Amoeba Is Discontinuing Their iPhone App Development
MacVoices — ... Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis recently announced on the company’s blog that they are discontinuing development for the iPhone platform. Paul talks candidly about the challenges they have faced in the iPhone app approval process in general and in particular, and the business aspects that led him to his position. Rogue Amoeba is not the first Mac developer to abandon the iPhone platform because of the approval process. Paul compares his position with others, explains why the process doesn’t seem to scale, and offers ...

Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like The Approval Process
TechCrunch — Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend the App Store from the latest wave of criticism pointed in its direction. This time, Apple is having to battle the news of Facebook’s all-star developer Joe Hewitt quitting the platform, more high profile app rejections, and the rise of Android as an increasingly viable alternative to the iPhone. Schiller has granted BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl what the publication says is his first “wide-ranging interview on the matter”. Unfortunately, ...

Apple Defends App Store Approval Process
TechWeb — Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been a wild success , but the company is looking to address growing concern among developers about its approval process. In a rare interview about its role as gatekeeper, Philip Schiller, the company's senior VP of worldwide product marketing, said Apple is merely acting like any other retailer that wants to ensure that its store has quality products. While apps that don't make it into the store get a lot of attention , Schiller said the vast majority of programs do get approved. Of the apps that are sent back to developers, 90% are for technical ...

Follow Up: Rogue Amoeba Updates Airfoil Speakers For iPhone
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — On the heels of today's column in which Apple VP Phil Schiller defends Apple's app review process word comes today from Rogue Amoeba, that is iPhone app Airfoil Speakers, has been updated to version 1.0.2. A prior version had been rejected because it used images of Apple products — images that in fact were taken from the computer itself, but which Apple judged to have been infringing upon its trademarks. Rogue Amoeba now reports in a blog post that the images have been restored in the new version. Apple, they say, has changed some internal ...