Birdie is a golf scoring application, made with golfers’ needs in mind.
Besides the ease of use and enhanced speed, Birdie provides many enhanced features like the built in “range finder” or the fully automated calculation of score card results. In addition to counting each player’s strokes during a game, Birdie also automatically calculates the game’s results according to different rules including “Stroke Play”, “Stableford” and “Match Play”.
Features include:
Count up to four players per flight.
Automatic calculation of each players course handicap.
Range finder to determine the approximate distance to the hole.
Send game results by e-mail.
Perfect for both: iPhone and iPod touch
Birdie is perfectly usable offline, which makes it well suited for the iPhone in low or no reception areas as well as for the iPod Touch.
In about 14h my plane takes off for San Francisco. I’ll be there for WWDC next week.
Although I’ll check my emails frequently, I’ll be definitely very busy next week. As usual the week is packed with tons of sessions and labs (and one and another party in the evening). Therefor please give me some more time to answer your emails. Thanks!
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…
On last time: For those of you still working with v1.5.0 (aka v1.5): The automatic update feature is broken in v1.5.0! Please download and install the new version manually. This update is strongly recommended for all users of Übercaster v1.5.0!
No new features but tons of bug fixes and improvements. See Übercaster’s revision history for a full list of changes.
For those of you still working with v1.5.0 (aka v1.5): The automatic update feature is broken in v1.5.0, please download and install the new version manually. This update is strongly recommended for all users of Übercaster v1.5.0!
We’re back from San Francisco. Thanks to all who visited us at our booth. We definitely had a great time meeting you. The four days passed by in a glance. Sebastian and Eberhard gave tons of demos, we’ve received great feedback and we barely got a chance to check out the rest of the show floor.
Currently we still process all the feedback.
Check out some impressions, if you didn’t have the chance to visit our booth:
This week’s sneak peek will be the last one before Übercaster v1.5’s official release next week on Macworld Expo San Francisco (if you’ll be in town, visit us at booth # S-1338).
Today I’ll present you one of the biggest new features in Übercaster v1.5:
Autopilot
Übercaster’s Autopilot is a completely new feature, invented to make the life of podcasters easier. It comes with a new kind of panel on Übercaster’s Prepare and Record layer:
Übercaster’s Autopilot perfectly assists you during your show. It’s a resizable panel which shows the topics you want to talk about, notes you took and even more.
While recording, you can easily jump between your topics and catch a glimpse at your notes.
During recording, the Autopilot panel shows the following information:
Topic list You can scroll through all topics without changing the currently recorded topic.
Elapsed time Shows the duration of the currently recorded topic.
Remaining/overrun time If the currently recorded topic contains an estimated duration, Autopilot shows you the remaining/overrun time.
Topic information State and features of the currently shown topic.
Notes Detailed information you’ve entered on the current topic.
When starting a topic during recording, Übercaster automatically creates a chapter for the topic.
Besides the topic title, notes and the optional estimated duration, topics can also be configured to automatically play an audio clip when started. This way, you can easily define a standard jingle to play whenever you start a new topic on your show or you may prepare a topic to play a whole song - fully automated with its own titled chapter.
Preparing your show with Autopilot
Planning and preparing your next podcast episode is now an easy and fun task with Übercaster’s Autopilot:
Create and name the topics you’d like to talk about and add notes to each topic as detailed as you like.
By entering an estimated duration for each topic you’ll get a pretty good prediction of your episodes final length. Furthermore, Autopilot will visually warn you during recording when reaching the estimated duration of a topic.
Edit and refine your episode’s “flightplan” as you like and reorder the topics in autopilot by simple drag and drop:
Sure enough, all Autopilot setting are saved along with the project’s data and are of course reused when creating a new project based on a former episode with the “New with template…” command.
That’s it for this last sneak peek…
Be sure to check out the free demo version of Übercaster v1.5, available next Tuesday, January 15th, 2008.
Visit us at MacWorld Expo 08, Booth # S-1338 for a free Demo CD or download it from Übercaster’s homepage at http://www.ubercaster.com
This week’s sneak peek introduces two major enhancements in Übercaster’s recording engine:
“Look ahead” recording
Whenever you hit Übercaster’s record button it’s like Übercaster reads your mind. It internally starts each recording 1 second ahead.
This way you can extend your recording’s start by up to one second on the Cut layer. This not only becomes handy when editing crossovers beween takes, it also means no more missed cues…
Direct AAC recording
It’s now possible to configure Übercaster to record into compressed AAC files. Although this might use more CPU during recording and when opening the project later, it also saves a lot of space on your hard disk during production.
Here are the info dialogs of two 15 minutes single microphone recordings:
On cut layer we’ll have full control over track’s state.
Locking a track
Locking a track in the Cut layer prevents any changes on this track.
A track is locked by clicking on the “Lock” button in the track’s
header in the Cut layer:
Locking a track means no more editing, no accidental volume/effect changes, no event drops or other changes on this track. Since locked tracks cannot be changed even by recording, this feature also enables the user to control recording on a per track basis.
Freezing a track
Freezing a track creates a down-mix of the frozen track, i.e. a new audio file’s created containing the premixed audio signal of the frozen track including all volume changes and all realtime effects.
Mark a track as “to be frozen” by clicking on the “Snowflake” button in the track’s header in the Cut layer:
Freezing a track not only saves CPU when playing back tracks with a lot of realtime effects, it’s also the way to apply offline effects:
Offline Effect
Übercaster now supports Offline Effect AudioUnits. Offline Effects are effects which cannot be applied in realtime, such as a “Reverse” effect or a “Normalizer” effect. Add and edit offline effects the same way you add/edit realtime effects. Offline effects are grouped in the effects popup menu.
Übercaster v1.5 comes with a build in RMS Normalizer.
Birdie is a golf scoring application, made with golfers’ needs in mind.
