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Proud to present – HUDTube 4S, Tab 10.1 or simply 1.4

Macoscope — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:04:58 +0000

After lot of work, our beauty is finished. AirPlay, Browser plugin, Playlist editing, Stream quality control. Made just for our customers.

If it plays on your Mac with HUDTube, it also plays on your Apple TV. You don’t have to worry about anything. HUDTube takes all you want to hear or see – music videos, trailers, tutorials, keynotes, funny cats – to your widescreen TV. HUDTube is the first Mac app to support AirPlay. Because of that, everything simply works. Some call it “magic”.

Macoscope have also prepared the easiest solution for getting your media to HUDTube app. It couldn’t be simpler. You just have to install a Safari or Chrome plugin and without dragging, you can send your videos and playlists to app window.

Don’t like that video in playlist? Try going to Playlist menu and edit everything just as you wish. Or create some new list, just for you.

Users also asked to introduce support for changing stream quality. Now it is all possible. When you are on your way with mobile network, you may want to give up the HD quality. But when you’re using external display, feel free to boost to 1080p and go fullscreen.

Mac App Store
HUDTube website

New HUDTube version is available!

Zbigniew — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:39:48 +0000

HUDTube, our little player for the web video, that let’s you listen to the music and view other interesting stuff outside of the browser was just updated! Now you can easily share links to things you like directly from HUDTube’s window without a hassle. More awesome updates are coming very soon!

Download HUDTube from App Store now!

Nozbe Apps update released!

Zbigniew — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:16:50 +0000

Today we’re releasing new Nozbe for iPhone and Nozbe for iPad versions – 2.3 and 1.3 respectively. Every developer knows how difficult synchronization complex data (like your tasks, project, context, delegations, etc) among many devices and the cloud can be, but we were working hard to make it better and much more effective for all Nozbe Apps users. We are very grateful for all the feedback we’ve received during testing and hope to bring you future releases much, much more often.

What’s new? We’ve spent most of the time during development of this update on making synchronization much more efficient and easier to use. Now you can also call, email and open links from your tasks. We’ve also made our apps ready for upcoming iOS 5 release, so you don’t have to worry about that either. Above all, we’ve fixed lots and lots of small bugs and optimized Nozbe Apps even more to ensure that you are even more productive!

If you’d like to be the first to know about future updates and help us test them, please leave your e-mail address here. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

HUDTube is here!

Macoscope — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:48:22 +0000

It’s official – we have a summer fever. Last week we have launched Focusbar and today we present you another app for your Mac – HUDTube. It’s a super awesome tool for watching outside the box. You simply drag&drop YouTube, Vimeo or local clips to HUDTube and enjoy browser-free watching. There are also some other cool features like:
- loop – watch your favorite clip over and over again without touching a single button
- history – play previous clips with just one click – no more firing up your browser’s tab to search what you want to watch now. You will find all your watched videos in the history menu
- full control – you decide about the sound level, size of the window, it’s opacity and whether it’ll be always on top or just run in the background
- drop options – you can drag and drop videos or their URL’s to the HUDTube’s icon on menu bar, in the dock or just straight to the HT window.

Maybe we’re not objective, but after a couple of weeks of using it in Macoscope (beta testers for life!) we find it super useful and cool like coolness itself. It’s great not only for music videos but also for tutorials or materials from conferences – you can leave the window in the background, listen to guys from TEDex and do your work uninterrupted.

More on HUDTube
Buy HUDTube in App store

Simply bring your tasks to a focus…

Macoscope — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:28:25 +0000

…with our new app – Focusbar! It’s a small but very useful tool for your Mac, which will help you in focusing on one task at a time. All you have to do is press ‘start activity’, type your task and press enter. Focusbar will show up on your screen from time to time, reminding you that it’s time to work on what you’ve planned. It will also show up every time you switch to another window – in case you want to check your Facebook account or spend two hours on Tumblr.

Along with Nozbe Apps, Focusbar will help you to really boost your productivity. We use it all the time and it make wonders!

Have you met the beetles?

Macoscope — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:41:48 +0000

It’s been a long time since we launched something to keep you completely unproductive for a couple of hours (remember Circuloid?). As we have announced Nozbe Todo for Mac a couple of weeks ago for all GTD lovers, it was high time to do something for procrastinators all over the world (btw, recent study shows that putting off important tasks isn’t necessarily a bad habit). So, along with Oh My Game! we have made a cute and extremely addictive game for Mac – Meet The Beetles! The gameplay is simple and intuitive – all you have to do is help the adorable beetles in finding their way home by turning them in the right direction toward launch pads of a similar color.

Below you will see screenshots from the game (which you can buy here). Also follow us on Twitter, ‘cause there will be some serious promo codes’ handing out.

Code Pilot 2.0b7 is out!

Zbigniew — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:53:30 +0000

Latest Code Pilot 2 version includes support for Xcode versions that I’m even afraid to name.

Here’s the direct download link: http://updates.macoscope.net/codepilot2beta/CodePilot2-2.0b7.zip

Code Pilot 2.0 b6 released!

Zbigniew — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:16:13 +0000

Code Pilot 2.0 was just released. This version includes support for Xcode 4.0.2 (on Snow Leopard) as well as Xcode 4.1 (on Lion). We also have a sparkling new UI design this time:

Code Pilot 2.0

Please see Code Pilot’s new website to get the new version!

New Nozbe Apps with Dropbox integration (and how to use it)

Macoscope — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:11:56 +0000

We are happy to say that we have just released new versions of Nozbe Apps for iPhone, iPod and iPad. In versions 1.2 and 2.2 you will find Dropbox integration, local notifications for scheduled tasks and push notifications for project sharing and task delegation, application badge icon will remind you about the number of overdue tasks (it’s not to depress you!) and auto-sync will perform in background every time you exit Nozbe Apps. Moreover, now iPhone version has all functionalities from iPad version including unread comments and delegated tasks sections.

But the thing we are really excited about is Dropbox integration. Many of you use this service to share documents and files connected to your projects, so the whole team may instantly and from everywhere get access to all the uploads. We also use Dropbox to share stuff in Macoscope and we couldn’t imagine better way to keep the flow, than to magically and instantly get access to our files through Nozbe – without the need to copy or (God forbid!) rewrite all the files. So, with our comfort in mind, we added super fast and automatic Dropbox integration to Nozbe, to make your life easier as well. Here’s how this feature works.

1. When you open Nozbe, go to your projects list and tap on any project. In it’s view you will see a new tab with the dropbox icon. Tap on it and you will see login screen.
2. After logging in, you may see no Dropbox files. This means that there are no files or folders matching your project. How to change that? Name folders exactly like your project or context. Thanks to that, in project view, you will see every file which is in this folder. You can also name individual files just like your project or context or just include project’s or context’s name in your file’s name. Of course you don’t have to do this for files which are in above mentioned folders.
3. Named your files and folders? Go to the dropbox view in Nozbe and pull to refresh. All your files should be there – ready to download and view!

Do you have any questions or comments? Do it here or catch us on Facebook and Twitter.

Code Pilot for Xcode 4 – work in progress.

Zbigniew — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:54:05 +0000

We’re working hard to bring Code Pilot to Xcode 4, but unfortunately it seems that we’ve missed “end of March” kind of deadline already. We are testing our internal alpha version right now and hope to have a beta ready in 7-10 days from now. Anyone who would like to help us test upcoming beta builds, please drop me a line at zbigniew@macoscope.net. And keep your fingers crossed :-)