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Loopy is on sale

By Michael | Published: June 17, 2010
Loopy, my loop-based musical instrument and musical notepad app, is going on sale in anticipation of Loopy 2, which is on its way, with a release expected a little later this year. Here’s some recent feedback on Loopy (about which I’m thrilled!): Loopy does more of what I wanted than my Boss looper pedal that [...]
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The Making of Talkie: Multi-interface broadcasting and multicast

By Michael | Published: May 2, 2010
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

By Michael | Published: March 11, 2010
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

By Michael | Published: January 22, 2010
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

By Michael | Published: January 4, 2010
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

By Michael | Published: December 22, 2009
It’s a day later than planned, but Talkie for Mac is here! Apologies for the delay — we had some drama in Tunis when our motorhome was attacked with us inside it, and soon after our Internet access went down for a day! Such is life. The current features of Talkie for Mac: Zero-configuration operation: [...]
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Introducing Talkie

By Michael | Published: December 19, 2009
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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AutoRate 1.5.0 release

By Michael | Published: April 1, 2009
Thanks to the efforts of Brandon Mol and a few dedicated testers, AutoRate 1.5.0 is ready for public consumption. Sporting a brand new rating algorithm and shiny new interface, this new version features more intelligent, more adjustable rating.
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