The Making of Talkie: Multi-interface broadcasting and multicast

Part 2 Talkie is my newest product, a Walkie Talkie for iPhone and Mac. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about basic broadcasting. This works fine with one network device, but it’s worth discussing how to send through all devices, so you can communicate with others connected via, say, Ethernet and WiFi simultaneously….

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The Making of Talkie: Broadcasting

Part 1 Talkie is my newest product, the result of a collaboration with a good designer friend, Tim Churchward, who did the user interface. Talkie is a little different from many of the other walkie talkie applications on the App Store (aside from the fact that much of it was written by me from our…

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Talkie 1.1 for iPhone

Talkie 1.1 is now available on the iPhone App Store, and it’s better than ever. The new version connects to other Talkies via Bluetooth completely automatically — start Talkie on your iPhone and within seconds you’ll be connected to anyone nearby using Talkie on the same channel. Also new are WiFi and Bluetooth connection indicators,…

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A Tasty Pixel’s store and Talkie for Mac Premium

I’m happy to announce that the store is now open for business! We accept PayPal and all major credit cards, in four currencies. Talkie for Mac 1.0 is now available, and can be registered to access the features of Talkie for Mac Premium: Talk to others using the free version of Talkie for Mac Push-to-talk…

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Talkie for Mac is here

Talkie for Mac is here! Note: Talkie has been retired since mid-2011. It may return at a later date. This post remains for historical purposes only. The current features of Talkie for Mac: Zero-configuration operation: Start Talkie, and start talking 12 distinct channels Configurable global hotkey to transmit while performing other tasks Unobtrusive interface Incoming…

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Introducing Talkie

A Tasty Pixel’s new application has hit the App Store: Talkie! This bad boy stands out from the crowd with an engine that works not only over Bluetooth, but also over WiFi networks. Talkie will broadcast over the network so that any other iPhones running the same app — or any Macs running Talkie for…

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Error -12986 and you

A customer recently got in touch with me with an odd problem — Talkie for iPhone was going silent on him. After a little diagnosis, it turned out the audio system was throwing up an undocumented error — -12986 — while starting up on his iPod Touch. Some googling turned up this thread on Stack…

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