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For the second year in a row I was awarded with the opportunity to attend Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. It looks to be yet another great week in geek heaven for me. See you all in California!

Yesterday I was accepted into the Google Summer of Code. I will be working with the Mozilla Foundation on Camino. My project proposal was for Camino •

This past weekend was BarCamp Boston 2 and man was it fun! A bunch of friends and I entered the programming contest and got 3rd with Geneguin a Genetic Penguin Breeding Program. A video of all the entries can be found here. I also demoed HAL9000, a small speech recognition app that I made and soon to release here when the new site gets launched in a few weeks.

In regards to upcoming software. We are getting ready to release 3 new apps, one of which is HAL. They will all be free and GPL’ed. I am in the middle of reworking some of Corripio’s artwork code for much better stability. Look for it in the coming weeks as well.

Yesterday I was able to setup my phone to act as a modem over bluetooth to my laptop. It’s not as easy as just selecting a few options. So I thought I would put up all the info you need to get it working.

The information that you need to fill in when asked is:

Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
GPRS CID String or Telephone number: wap.cingular
Modem: Generic GPRS CID1 +CGQREQ

Then follow the instructions at captnswing.net.

This past weekend I attended Dev House Boston and with the help of Dan Pickett, Kyle Bradshaw, and Corey Goldberg I was able to add new functionality to Corripio. I had no intentions to work on Corripio when I got to Dev House, however Kyle heard that I was a Mac developer and was wondering if there were any Mac equivalents to Tag & Rename. So from there we set out to add the ability to fetch missing tag information from the web via Amazon. We were able to finish the ruby script that pulls the information from Amazon by the time the day was over. I am still working on incorporating it into Corripio, look for it in the next version.

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So there has been a large gap in between the release of Corripio for the past few months. This is due in part to us starting school and getting adjusted to our new atmospheres. I can say that I am now fully adjusted to college life and can now get back to devoting some of my free time to my passion which is Mac software. In the past month or so I have been working on mainly server/backend utilities that will help me from doing redundant tasks that keep me from programming. So in other words Doing things over and over is over.

http://beta.nclasssoftware.com is finally up and working. Please download the latest builds and report bugs, this will help us fix bugs faster and prevent them from going out in the “stable” release.

We are also working on another project that should be announced in the coming months, so stay tuned…

As for myself, I have been having a blast in Boston! There are so many events in the area that I normally have to choose a great event over a good event for a given night. You can check out what I’ve been up to @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlouhy/.

First off I want to say that I am very happy to see that Apple added artwork download functionality into iTunes 7. The reason that I made Corripio in the first place was to fill a void that Apple had left in regards to album art in iTunes. They now allow you to download artwork for your music from the iTunes Music Store right in iTunes. Back in May Apple crippled the “ability” to download artwork from the iTMS, it worked some of the time for reasons unknown. So I am glad that it is open to us again.

Remember that Corripio is no longer just a album art application. Corripio now has the ability to fix tags, get lyrics, and obscure artwork. Remember that iTunes can still only get albums that are in the iTMS. Therefore you will still not be able to get artwork for say The Beatles.

So I am pleased with the update to iTunes. It looks like a solid upgrade. I can now listen to Abbey Road the way it was meant to be, without gaps.

Later this week I will launch beta.nclasssoftware.com where you will be able to get the latest builds of our apps. Corripio is still going to be developed. I will soon be implementing the new tag features that will allow you to find missing/incorrect tag information for your songs from the web. As well as better lyrics support.

I’m getting ready to head back tomorrow. I had a blast here in California for WWDC. There are going to be a lot of new things coming in Corripio, thanks to a greater understanding of Mac UI and Cocoa programming. I hope to come back next year! Now I need to get packing and remove all my bottles (and snakes) from my carry on luggage.

I’m all ready to begin my stay here for all things Macintosh. You can view my pictures throughout the week at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlouhy/. I also got some work done on Corripio on the plane (what else am I going to do for 6 hours?). Let me know if this beta crashes when you skip. Get 0.5.2b here.