MxBlog

Today I became the proud owner of an iMac I am proud to announce MxTube developement will be back on track shortly. I plan to rebuild it from the ground up, not only will this make the app run much smoother, there will be very few bugs if any. Also, I have figured out why YouTube is closing the connection. Forgetting that the YouTube app was set up for steaming videos I figured it would wait until the entire download finished, but it sends the videos in a set of “packages” you could say. I will be building a system for next release of MxTube that will handle this, removing this bug once and for all. I am currently in the middle of a new project that will release soon called ThemeBuilder. This application creates summerboard themes and will have a gallery in a future release that will allow users to submit, rate and download themes. I would like to thank everyone that supported this project. All of the donations and positive comments have been a huge help.

Max

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I currently build all of my applications on my only computer, which at the moment runs Windows XP. Until recently it had been running great, but in the past week I have been getting the dreaded blue screen of death. It is still slightly usable, but running iTunes and Notepad++ at the same time causes the BSOD. This problem causes me to lose a lot of work everytime it happens. I’m working on summing up enough money to get a replacement, but until then I am not able to work on MxTube.

Max

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In this post I plan to answer most of the commonly asked questions I have been receiving recently.

1. At the moment, there is nothing I can do about downloads finishing prematurely. YouTube (Google) is closing the download connection on Wifi quality videos when on edge or another slow connection.
2. I will not be adapting this application for any other movie playing sites. The only reason this works with YouTube is because mp4 versions of their videos are available via an xml based search which the YouTube app uses.
3. Search results do not match those of YouTube.com exactly because not every youtube video has been converted to mp4. This is something I do not have control over.
4. I will most likely not build this app for use in the app store being released by apple, I doubt apple will approve it for obvious reasons.
5. Apps cannot just be placed into the iPod app. Not only do they have to be in the correct directory, but they need to be added to an SQLite3 db in the correct format. Also, upon syncing with iTunes, the database will be reset and the videos will disappear. If I can get videos to sync with iTunes you can expect this feature in a future version, but until then it doesn’t look like a possibility.
6. Audio only download is not an option. This would require downloading the full video, stripping the video (Not possible on iPhone) and building an audio player inside of MxTube for playback.
7. Negative comments and emails DO NOT help me make this app any better. If you have something negative to say about my application that is not constructive, don’t bother saying it at all.

Hope this clears up some confusion,

Max

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Glad to hear everyone liking MxTube so far, I am working on fixing many bugs as we speak. Just a note, this application will not work on 1.0.x, It requires a couple methods that came in version 1.1.1 I will be setting up a bug tracking system soon, but until then please do not email me or post comments with bugs that have been found.

Max

EDIT: MxTube 1.0b now supports 1.0.x firmware.

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My native version of MxTube is now available on installer under the Multimedia category. For those who haven’t seen it, I have a demo video I put up on MetaCafe to demonstrate its base features. I will be adding to this post more tomorrow with screenshots and features to come.

Max

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As some may or may not know, I have been working on a native version of my web app MxTube. I plan to release it in the next week or so and just as a teaser here is a video of the current alpha version in action: (Just uploaded the video so it might take awhile before its processed)

MxTube IPhone Native App – Coming Soon

Max

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To those of you asking me to join #iphone (irc.osx86.hu) to answer questions, I am currently banned. If you have serious non-stupid questions, find me in #iphone.help or #ilounge if you just want to chat. To sum it all up, Magic SIM does not look like its going to be possible. The hardware is not capable of supporting IMSI/ICCID spoofing without disconnecting from the phone. BigBuckz WAS lying about confirming Magic SIM to work especially with v16. Even if the hardware in a different version was capable of supporting enough instructions, it would require programming the IC manually instead of through a SIM writer. If you are wondering why I am banned, ask Darken. I currently still have no idea why, and all attempts to figure out why Darken doesn’t want me in #iphone have failed. If anyone has an idea I would appreciate some info so I can correct the situation. I have joined with aliases after having my ban removed by those who actually want me back but it has gone no where. I’m sure there is a reason Darken is op in #iphone and has his own reasons for banning me so I guess I will just let it go. For those who thought I was banned cause of the conversation between me and Qapf last monday (12/9). To my understanding me and Qapf had patched things up. I realized he wasn’t just kicking me and that is how he normally acts, when he had brought up my blog post I told him that I was just pissed that night and that I didn’t mean it anymore. At the moment the only thing I can think of is when drudge and Darken walked in on me and Qapf talking they took it the wrong way. Hopefully that clears something up about the whole situation.

Max

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