Here is an interesting project: The anonymous Leonardo Da Vinci at omnivore.ca is building a stop motion animation robot. "What it all adds up to, I hope, is a stop-motion system that can operate independently, with all the logic and power contained under the skin of the figure. Plans exist to allow the figure to move to a position, and send a wireless signal to the base station Mac that will in turn, trigger software to grab a frame in a digital still camera." He's got a screentest of the robot moving and a short stop motion animation as well as various sketches and texts describing the project.

Guy Robbens 6th grade students have put together a very nice movie about the dream of a student being an electrician: "Le fabuleux destin de Dominique l'électricien". The movie contains a short animation sequence that the students have recorded using iStopMotion. A photo sequence on their web site documents the process of animating.

Amit Malhotra on "The Digital Fotography Weblog": "How you present your portfolio is - at times -  as important as the pictures themselves. Top photographers don't show case their pictures from the back of a van; but do so in pleasing, mood setting fancy galleries with the right ambience (w/ food and drinks). So, how do you re-create this experience in the digital world? Sending them attachments or a URL with ads for buying prints is not going to cut it. Enter FotoMagico from the acclaimed developers of iStopMotion - sorry folks, Macs only."

An unusual earth quake of the magnitude 4 today shook the Steiermark area in Austria, where Boinx Software's Achim Breidenbach has his office. Development can continue uninterupted and no significant damages have been reported.

After an unbelievable final sprint, the team is proud to announce FotoMagico 1.0. Check out the press release and the website. First customer feedback is very good - for example, Rob Kubasko writes: "In a word, this program is AWESOME! This is the best implementation of pan and zoom I've seen yet... EXCELLENT!". Micha de Vries writes: "Just downloaded your app. This is really what I've been looking for for a long time! Looks very promising indeed." Also check out the demo movie (click on image to the left). FotoMagico is now available for US$ 79 at the Kagi store.