TubeTV on TUAW

Thanks to the people at the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for their nice article on TubeTV 1.0 which appeared this morning; a pleasant surprise while drinking my coffee and browsing the news.  They mentioned one of the main benefits of TubeTV over competitors - the fact that it works with many websites in addition to YouTube, not only YouTube.

PS: Here's a screenshot showing one way to create a smart playlist in iTunes to find TubeTV converted videos for the iPhone.  If you use the TubeTV playlist (an option in the preferences), then you could filter for movies in that playlist instead of searching the comments for "TubeTV."

TubeTV 1.0 Released

Finally!  TubeTV version 1.0 was released earlier today with nifty new features including bookmarking (favorites), history, utilization of flash caches to speed download, iTunes support, and a re-worked progress window!  Leopard is required for some of the new features, so if you fire it up in Tiger, you won't notice as many changes.

Thanks to Björn, Wolf-Jakob, Antoine, and Francisco for localizing this software into German, French, and Spanish respectively!

Head on over to the Chimoosoft Flickr site for some screenshots.

TubeTV Imminent

The next version (1.0) of TubeTV should be released in the near future.  If you'd like the link for beta testing, visit the Chimoosoft contact page and drop me a line.  Version 0.9.9 is now in the process of being localized and hopefully will be out for the public in a few days.   The screenshot either directly shows or hints at some of the upcoming features.

More Cocoa Goodness

Came across another nice Cocoa Blog today called Living the Life which includes some freely downloadable classes for managing preferences.  The new version of TubeTV will make use of Dave's preferences class - thanks!  It literally took less than half an hour from finding the classes on the web to having the entire thing implemented in TubeTV - one of the quickest pickup times for third party additions ever!  Normally the problem integrating other people's work is just figuring out how in the heck you're supposed to use it, but Dave made the process entirely trivial.

TubeTV and WWDC

TubeTV has been out for a few weeks now and is doing well already having amassed over 10,000 downloads. Thanks to everyone who downloaded it and tried it out! To help encourage more applications like this in the future, consider donating to help pay for the author's attendance at the Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer's Conference) 2007.

Terrabrowser Universal Binary and TubeTV

Terrabrowser is now a universal binary internally (not yet released) - after reworking the GPX file handling to make it more compatible with a wider range of GPX files, a new beta will be released. Also, a new program called TubeTV is almost finished which will allow exporting YouTube and Google Video videos to formats for Apple TV and iPod. Stay tuned.