The website of Pleasant Software (and some of the server-side applications), for historical reasons, were distributed over 3 different web servers lately.  In addition to that, our main server strongly needed an OS update, which wasn’t possible without completely shutting down the server and install from scratch.

Last week, we finally took the chance to clean up the whole server setup: in the night from Wednesday  to Thursday, after a day of backing up all websites and databases, we shut down the main server, erased the hard disk and installed the long overdue OS upgrade.

About 10hrs later, the server was up again and all seems to work. So we started to relocate content, formerly hosted on other servers, to the main server (e.g. http://www.ubercaster.com used to be hosted on a separate server).

If you run into problems on our website (broken links, missing images, dysfunctional  scripts etc.), please let us know. Thank you!

Another great review of Übercaster was published recently on the Cast Medium site:

Hilden of the Drunken Gamer Radio wrote an amazing piece on their production setup for their podcast production and on how much they love Übercaster.

Read the full article here.

Thanks to Drunken Gamer Radio and Cast Medium!

We’re proud that Übercaster v1.6 was honored by Macworld with a 5 star review and is now officially “Macworld Editors’ Choice”.

Read the full review here:

Ubercaster 1.6 review - Pro-standard podcasting tool is like having a radio production studio on your Mac

By the way, the Übercaster v1.6.4 update is already on its way and should be available during the next few days.

Ted Landau interviewed me at WWDC for the MacObserver.

Click here to read the interview on the MacObserver homepage.

In the most current screencast on pl0g.de (pl0g screencast #02 – Griffin Powermate, in German), PiP is used in a very creative and interesting way:

The screencast was created with ScreenFlow, using its built-in feature to record a live picture of the screencaster. But from 2:30 minutes in the screencast on, they’re using PiP to superimpose the image of a second webcam with a closeup shot of some live action. This way they get a TPiP (Two Pictures in Picture :D ) in their screencast!

We recently introduced a new section on the Pleasant Software homepage: “Pleasant Software Developer Tools“.

Currently there are two free developer tools/frameworks available from Pleasant Software:

• “iMBiPhoneView”, an open source framework for transferring files and data between Mac and iPhone applications
• “TagDefaultImage”, a command line tool to tag text to Default.png images during a build phase in XCode.

There’s also a new sample movie of iMBiPhoneView in a real world application on the iMBiPhoneView page.

To access the Developer Tools page, click onto the “Developer” icon in the upper left of the Pleasant Software homepage:

We recently introduced a new section on the Pleasant Software homepage: “Pleasant Software Developer Tools“.

Currently there are two free developer tools/frameworks available from Pleasant Software:

• “iMBiPhoneView”, an open source framework for transferring files and data between Mac and iPhone applications
• “TagDefaultImage”, a command line tool to tag text to Default.png images during a build phase in XCode.

There’s also a new sample movie of iMBiPhoneView in a real world application on the iMBiPhoneView page.

To access the Developer Tools page, click onto the “Developer” icon in the upper left of the Pleasant Software homepage:

Today we’ve updated the Pleasant Software homepage. It’s now completely bilingual: English and German. This is true not only for www.pleasantsoftware.com but also for www.ubercaster.com and www.showmacster.com.

Use the flag buttons in the upper right corner to toggle between the languages.

Und aus gegebenem Anlass noch einmal auf deutsch:

Wir haben heute die Pleasant Software Webpräsenz auf zweisprachigen Betrieb umgestellt (Deutsch & Englisch). Dies gilt nicht nur für www.pleasantsoftware.com, sondern auch für www.ubercaster.com and www.showmacster.com.

Die Sprache kann jederzeit über die Flaggen oben, rechts im Fenster umgestellt werden.

Im Zuge dieser Umstellung haben wir heute auch die deutschsprachige Version des Pleasant Software Blogs eröffnet. Dieser ist ebenfalls über die Flaggen zu erreichen, oder über diesen Link.

Although we’re more than happy to be the featured download at Apple’s Audio Section, the heavy load brought our cute, little web server to its knees several times earlier this week.

Sorry if you had trouble downloading Übercaster and/or ShowMacster during the last few days!

We’ve set up a second download server for Übercaster (with automatic load balancing), this will hopefully take some load from the main server. We also try to optimize some server settings in our Apache configuration (fingers crossed, that we don’t mess up the whole server config :))

If you’re able to read this post, our efforts seemed to work…

Today only:
Buy Übercaster and ShowMacster today on MacSanta and receive a 20% discount.

Missed the deal? No problem: Buy Übercaster or ShowMacster from December, 10th through the 31st 2007 and save 10%!
Just visit our online store and use the coupon code MACSANTA07TEN when you order! 

Check out today’s software bargain at http://www.macsantadeals.com