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Stage Hand 1.3, and Progress
Stage Hand 1.3 is out in the App Store; if you already have version 1.0, you should be able to upgrade it from your iPhone or iPod Touch, or from iTunes.
I've mentioned what's new before; also, if you want to see a preview, you can check out a video review one of our customers put up on YouTube.
Stage Hand Updates
So, we've been working pretty much non-stop for the past week on Stage Hand and Stage Manager updates.
Stage Manager is the Mac application that you use to authorise an iPhone or iPod Touch to control your presentations. Being a Mac app, we can update this more-or-less whenever we like, which is why there have been a handful of releases since launch, offering faster response and bugfixes in each one. The current version is Stage Manager 1.2.4, which offers a new Wireless Signal Test as well as an assortment of fixes.
The AppEngine Bulk Loader
So, something I've spent a lot of time doing recently, is waiting for the AppEngine Bulk Loader to finish. At the moment, there's nothing in the admin console to bulk add, edit or delete entries in your Datastore — you can create or edit entities singly, and you can tick off and delete up to 20 at a time, but that's your lot.
The officially-sanctioned bodge for this is the Bulk Loader. Though not well-documented, this is quite a powerful (if slow) tool.
Announcing Stage Hand
We've just released a new product: Stage Hand.
Stage Hand is an iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows you to remote- control Keynote presentations. It also shows you your presenter's notes and offers a highlighter feature that, like a laser-pointer, allows you to pick out details for your audience.
Stage Hand will be available as soon as the iTunes App Store opens; in the meantime, you can download Stage Manager so you're all set up and ready to go. Stage Manager is the Mac utility that you use to give permission to control your presentations. It's a pretty small download and has one button. :)
JavaScript for C & Python programmers
This is an introduction to JavaScript. There are plenty of these on the web, but most of them appear to be for non-programmers, teaching the building-blocks of programming as JavaScript uses them. And that's fine, because many people who have never programmed in their lives, find themselves needing a tiny bit of script for their web page, and need to start somewhere.
This article is designed to give much more in-depth information about JavaScript. It assumes a complete absence of knowledge about it, but it also assumes that you are already a competent programmer, preferably in a "C-like" language, and a smattering of Python will help too.
Warren Ellis, Reddit And Digg Will Destroy The Internet
So, there's a nicely over-stated title to get me rolling...
Warren Ellis posted today about the Patchwork Years of the Internet, and how the "link curation" style of blogging — Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom, for example — is kind of a historical artefact, that BoingBoing and a handful of others have this taken care of. Most people are shifting to a more personal style of blogging — either the ever-popular navel-gazing, sending short messages, or linking to friends' work. Or hiding behind walls, where we can't see or interact with them.
New Look Wooji Juice
So, we've just unveiled a new look for the Wooji Juice website. This is part of getting ready for a new product launch, so there'll be a few more changes to come as we shuffle everything into place.
If you bookmarked anything on our site, everything should still be where you left it — we haven't broken any links. Most things haven't moved, and we put redirects in place for the few that have. Notably, the articles section has been folded back into the main blog, so you might see some reposts in the newsfeed.
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Secrets of Twitter
People sure do love to talk about what they can't talk about :)