:Jason A Tratta:

I feel I’m a little over due on an update with where MerQury’s development is.  So here is the whole bag of beans.

Qloud becomes MerQury

I posted several months ago about an application idea called ‘Qloud.’   That project has offically been renamed MerQury.  It turns out Qloud is already a product.

Development thus far:

Today MerQury is in alpha testing at Shakespeare Theatre Comapany in Washington, DC (I happen to be an engineer there).   The application is being used to “sync” two macs running Qlab together over a network connection.  It still works like I described in my December 13th post.

I also have a native iPhone remote working. Its still very basic.  Here’s the sneak peak video I released to youtube.  It’s going to get quite complex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89-njYzVVs

A lot of work has been going into debugging code and refineing the UI.  Here is a an image of the latest build.

Logo / Icon

I have to give a big shout out to Tom Hayward for creating the MerQury logo.   If you need graphics work…he’s your guy.

http://thomasdhayward.com/

ToDo Before Release:

There are still several bugs to chase down before I can release to the public.

I would also like to implement  MIDI and OSC support for the beta release.  Its getting close, a month or two I hope.

Features to come:

There is a rather long list of functionality I would like to add.   Once the basic desktop version is working, my focus will shift heavily to finishing the iPhone / iPod Touch versions…which I imagine will lay the goundwork for a iPad version.

Development continues as fast as possible. 60+ hours a week at work is really slowing me down. Go figure. More to come!

Oh…and thanks for stopping by!

Just a quick update.   Coding and testing continues.   If you haven’t heard, I have a working prototype of MerQury on the iPhone.  No release date set yet….but it’s getting close.

QAutoSaver has been updated to version 1.2 

This is a minor bug fix.

-Fixed an issue where QAS did not save correctly to directories with spaces.  Example: “This Folder”
-Fixed an issue with the self updater crashing on install.  This should be fixed for future updates beyond 1.2. 

Download QAutoSaver 1.2

NEW in 1.1

• New Preferences Drawer includes:
• Optional and Customizable Backup Tag!
• Optional and Selectable Date Format!
• Customizable Global Backup Hotkey, invoke a backup from anywhere!
• Preferences: QAS now remembers your personal settings!
• ToolTips!
• Update engine added, get future updates from the app!
• New About window with PayPal Donation Link! (wink wink, nudge nudge)

Bug Fixs:
• Fixed a bug where QAS could not handle identical filenames at save.

Source Code Released:
I am making the QAutoSaver source available for free!

Download the source code here.

Here is a video someone took of the inauguration concert I was the FOH engineer for. Elvis Costello also performed however, most of the evening was spent with the legendary Sam Moore. The Grateful Dead showed up…and were about to go on until they decided to pull the plug. The night ended with Billy Baldwin storming the stage and screaming “Obama! Obama!” into one of the open mics. Priceless.