[stinkblog]

You can now update your Sumo! application to 1.0.1 in the App Store. It sounds like Apple was working furiously last week to get through the backlog of applications to review. Thanks for your patience! And please, if you find any new bugs in this release, let us know.

It’s been a week since we uploaded Sumo! 1.0.1 to Apple’s servers, and so far all we’ve heard is that Sumo! 1.0.1 is “under review”. As best we can determine, an actual Apple employee downloads and installs every app uploaded to the store; the “review” in question is a check to ensure the app works, [...]

TubeSock 2.0.3 has gone final, with improvements to iPhone, iPod, and appleTV conversions. You can grab a copy at the usual place.
However, we have gotten two reports of iPhone videos conversions showing up as all black (a bug we fixed in 2.0.3) for videos that we ourselves have successfully watched on the iPhone. So [...]

We cranked out a bunch of action-items on TubeSock for Mac today. Here’s the list of things we fixed:

Improved compression profiles for iPhone, iPod, Mac, and AppleTV — this solves the “this file can’t be played on this iPhone” message that many users had been seeing
Support for Unicode filenames with “Add to iTunes”
Finally fixed that [...]

It’s true — videos converted with TubeSock are working fine on the iPhone. The blind guess about format and bitrate we made back in January seems to have panned out! If you encounter any problems, let us know.

The littlest member of the Stinkbot team has just joined us: meet Marshall, born Thursday at 3:11 pm.

We just got him home, we’re trying to figure out a new routine, and I’m trying to get to all my back emails. My apologies in advance for anyone who’s sent an email recently — I will [...]

The Stinkbot blog (stinkblog?) can keep you up-to-date on Stinkbot products like TubeSock. Subscribe today!