I just posted a couple of pictures from PMA07 to Flickr:

Yesterday, we reached milestone 1 in the relaunch of boinx.com. This milestone has the company pages and FotoMagico 2 pages online in the new design. We hope you like it.

The 2nd CocoaDevHouse in Munich was held last Saturday at the Boinx offices. Aside from folks from Boinx Software and TheCodingMonkeys who organised the event, almost 40 Mac developers attended, including people from companies such as equinux, Elgato, CocoaTech and many more. It was a great community event with a lively discussion about various developer topics and the Mac in general. Unlike the first CocoaDevHouseMunich, the large group did not break up into smaller groups actually coding but was for the most time assembled in the big room listening to the two-way talks presented there. We are looking forward to the next CocoaDevHouse in Munich. Photos from the event are available at Thomas Alexnat's site and Flickr.

The 2nd CocoaDevHouse Munich is happening at our offices on Saturday, Feb. 24th starting 10am. Already a number of top notch Mac developers have signed up. See you there ...ahem here.

FotoMagico 2 constantly evolves while the work continues... Enjoy the latest and best version beta 5.

Apart from lots of fixes the major news of this version is a change when playing your slideshow in the window (left play button). Try the new behaviour and give us feedback! Read more the details if you care...

Nat Torkington, writing for the O'Reilly Radar, thinks that using iStopMotion builds essential skills for programmers and used it in a three week computer class for 7 to 10 year old students from his kid's primary school who aspired to learn programming:

Programming is all about reducing big problems to small and easy tasks. So I paired up kids on two Macs I brought from home, and we used iStopMotion to build stop-motion animations. This teaches them to think in terms of small steps, while at the same time they become familiar with the computers. And, best of all, it's enormous fun.

2006 ends as a very successful year for Boinx Software. We finally got iStopMotion into the Apple Retail stores and managed to grow our US business by almost 60% compared to 2005. Worldwide the growth was almost 50%. For 2007 we have great ambitions. Starting at Macworld in January where Oliver will be giving a 45 minute seminar on how to make great slide shows each day at The Digital Photography Experience. At the same time, at BETT in London, iStopMotion will be featured prominently at the Create at BETT booth. In March, we will exhibit with a small booth at PMA 07 in Las Vegas. We could almost stay there because just four weeks later, at NAB, we will have the biggest booth in company history and hope to make a big impression on the pros. Plans for 2007 also include major new versions for our apps, a pro HD setup for iStopMotion, great new stuff with Quartz Composer and more. Of course we will keep you updated through Boinx Chronicles and the Newsletter we send out roughly monthly. We hope 2006 was as good to you as it was to us and wish you all the best for 2007. Oliver Breidenbach for the Boinx Software Team.

Just a short note, especially interesting if your Mac OS version number starts with 10.3: We just released a small maintenance update to iStopMotion carrying the most absurd version number 1.10.2. Yeah, it is 1.10.2, not 1.1.2, unfortunately we ran out of single digit decimal numbers a while ago...
Head over to the iStopMotion site for details and the download.