Christian Owens

Check out the latest issue of .net magazine for a free copy of Dream Capture V1.0 and for a 15% discount on Dream Capture V2.0. Check it out…

Corby, United Kingdom - The Dream Apps is proud to announce Dream Capture 2.2, an update to their video recording utility for Mac OS X. Dream Capture is a simple and intuitive utility to record videos that are perfect for uploading to various video sharing websites, importing into iMovie or GarageBand for the creation of Podcasts or burned to DVD. This makes Dream Capture a great compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite.

Dream Capture supports most cameras on the market, but is optimized for Apple’s built-in and external iSight cameras. The application captures sharp, bright and beautiful video that is encoded in the H.264 codec. Dream Capture features an automatic image stabilizing platform using the same incredible technology as Apple’s Shake. All this, combined in a sleek, stylish and easy-to-use interface that makes video recording a Dream.

New Feature highlights include:
* New automatic focusing feature using Shake technology
* H.264 Video encoding
* Meta data support for iTunes 8 import
* The Dream’s DreamSync audio compression technology
* Support for only audio recording when camera is set to None

Bug Fixes:
* Fixed bug where Dream Capture would only record for 5 seconds on PowerBooks and older MacBook Pro’s
* Video preview window now resizes with display window
* Video is now saved during recording in the ‘tmp/Dream Capture’ folder
* Audio and video is now compressed faster

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 348 kB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Dream Capture 2.2 can be purchased for $9.95 (USD) per single computer license. A full-featured demo is available. Version 2.2 is a major update including many enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended download for all customers.

Located in Corby, United Kingdom, The Dream is a small software development company founded in 2003 by Christian Owens. Over the years the company has grown from not only designing websites, to creating websites and award winning Macintosh applications. The work done by The Dream is often featured on design inspiration websites and our apps have been featured in magazines such as WebDesigner Magazine, MacFormat and Mac Life. Copyright 2003-2008 The Dream Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iSight and Shake are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Christian Owens
CEO
07595 301 480
United Kingdom

Well, they said it may come, and it did! I was hoping it would come the the 360 first but those PS3 guys have got it, yes i’m talking about YouTube integration with the Playstation 3. The new YouTube feature in the PS3 allows people to take videos of their games and upload them straight to YouTube from the game. And this is not just limited to new games, the YouTube API allows older PS3 games to be updated via the internet to support this new feature.

I really did think that the 360 would get this capability first, I mean with the upload to EA.com in the popular game Skate, I hope we see this YouTube feature soon!

I wonder if the Wii will ever support this kind of feature, it is the only console where you can get an Opera web browser for!

Hmmm, Gets you thinking doesn’t it!

Ahhh, The blogosphere. Many people have a blog, take this one for example. There are millions of blogs and that number is ever growing. Just take Technorati for example, the world leader in online blog sharing. Technorati is an online directory of millions of blogs!

The world of blogs is ever growing, and is a great way for companies to get news to their clients and users quickly and easily. Many major companies like Google, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook already have blogs to inform their users of new features. Apple has a blog called Apple Hot News (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/) to inform their customers of what new things are happening at Apple.

Anyone can have a blog and most of them are free. There are various solutions such as Wordpress and Google’s Blogger. Wordpress is the industry leader in online blogging tools, you can get a free Wordpress blog from www.wordpress.com then comes Blogger. Blogger is a great tool developed by Google for making your very own blog, it’s not as flexible as Wordpress but is easy to use. You can register for a free Blogger account at www.blogger.com thanks for reading!

This podcast doesn’t really have a topic, so just listen, see what is said, and comment! Oh, and enjoy!

Listen: Christian Owens Podcast #1

Here is my first PHP tutorial, in association with TechSkip. This one covers the basics and getting started with PHP. This tutorial would usually cost $5 but we put it up, on the servers, available for download free. Enjoy…

Getting Started With PHP - Tutorial (MOV - 30.76MB)

Apple’s recent “Let’s Rock”  event on 9th September 2008 was a slight let down, although we were all expecting a music only event, we were still all hoping that Apple would unleash a new MacBook Pro. Instead we got a new iPod Nano, with a bigger screen and an accelerometer, voice recording and a new UI. We also got a new iPod Touch, with a similar size and shape to the iPhone, aluminum back and built in Nike software.

iTunes 8 has been released, not too much of a big deal, but with some pretty nifty new features. Genius, as we saw in the recent leaks was added to iTunes. What it basically does is takes into account the songs, genres etc… of music that you currently listen to and recommends other music, that you might like. Sounds to me like a paid version of Pandora.

No, I didn’t forget. Probably the biggest announcement of this event, or at least the one that most mattered to me was the announcement of the iPhone 2.1 software upgrade that will be available from this Friday (the 12th). Apple says it should improve iPhone stability, and hopefully lessen the quite often occurrence of iPhone crashes. The update also claims to fix other bugs and increase the iPhone 3G’s battery life, oh, and of course, support for the new “Genius” stuff that was released in iTunes 8.

iTunes 8 will be available for download, today (the 9th) and the iPhone 2.1 software update will be free, and available for download from Friday (the 12th).

TechCrunch 50 headed off today, the conference that allows developers and entrepreneurs of the web community to launch there web applications to a large audience of conference atendee’s, LIVE internet viewers ( via their live video feed: http://techcrunch50.com/ ) and press.

The 2 day event spanning from the 8th of September to the 10th is much loved in the tech community. Check out the TechCrunch 50 website over at http://www.techcrunch50.com/ or visit the TechCrunch site over at http://www.techcrunch.com/

If you’ve read the free book “Become An Xcoder” by CocoaLab you’ll know that it is a really amazing, in depth resource into the world of Mac development. Delving into such topics as Cocoa/ Obj-C, Interface Builder, and of course Xcode.

If your beggining Mac development, or even just want to brush up on your coding skills its a great read. So I have decided to support the cause and host a copy of the “Become An Xcoder” PDF on my servers, for download.

Download (PDF - 1.9MB)