Bruji News

EyeTV import for DVDpedia

Nora — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:31:26 +0000

The wonderfully generous people at El Gato recently sent us an EyeTV and we’ve added an importer for their .eyetv files to the latest version of DVDpedia, 4.4.3. Just drag your .eyetv files over the DVDpedia icon to import them into the program.
If you have an EyeTV, play around with this new feature and let us know how you like it or what we can do to improve it.

We’re always excited to integrate the Pedias with other programs but especially when they are as useful and well-written as EyeTV. Thanks El Gato!

Of course, the latest version of DVDpedia and the other Pedias includes lots more improvements, fixes and additions. So be sure to check out version 4.4.3.

…and then there were three.

Nora — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:25:46 +0000

After 5 years almost to the day, Bruji is finally expanding - meet Alex, our first addition to the Bruji team. Alex is a big fan of 3D animation and hapkido and used to have two crazy boxers, Pata and Baturay. He’ll be working mainly in the support area, answering emails and checking in on the Forum. But since he is also a PHP whiz, he’ll be working on setting up a knowledge base to expand our support page and complement the help files.

Je t’aime, Bookpedia!

Nora — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:29:55 +0000

Bookpedia was reviewed in the February edition of French Mac magazine SVM Mac and received 4 1/2 mice out of 5. It was just a short review, touching on the most important features in Bookpedia and outlining the workflow, but it was a thrill to see one of our programs in good old-fashioned print. Merci SVM Mac!

Did you know? Splitting tracks into multiple discs in CDpedia

Nora — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:40:11 +0000

The tracks tab in CDpedia can hold more than one disc worth of tracks. To show that another disc is starting, the numbering begins at 1 again. But what if you have all the tracks listed as one big disc instead of the two/three/four discs the tracks are on in reality?

Split the tracks into one or more discs. Select all the tracks that belong to one disc and ctrl-click (right-click) the selection. A contextual menu will appear where you can choose to ‘Split Selection To New Disc’ and a new disc will be added, meaning the track numbering starts at 1 again.

The same is true for the opposite as well of course. To merge tracks from several discs into one, select all, ctrl-click and choose ‘Join Selection to Previous Disc’.

Extras page

Nora — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:20:40 +0000

Have you checked out our Extras page lately? Whenever a user sends us a template or plug-in for the Pedias we put it up on the Extras page for download so be sure you check back for new additions every once in a while.

A few days ago DVDpedia user Torsten Mess (author of the cool ThreeViews template) sent us another great template but this time for the info view.
The LeoTab info view template is based on the Tabbed templates but has a darker look, to tie in with Leopard, and a neat ‘Cover Search’ feature integrated into the footer of the template to look like the Pedia’s Add/Edit window. The cover search button automatically starts a search on Google Images for your entry, making it a breeze to add image links or a new cover image (just ctrl-click on the image and choose).

Version 4.4

Nora — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:51:32 +0000

We just released the latest version of the Pedias, 4.4. The major release notes for this update include: an improved statistics feature, now based on XML for speed and flexibility, with a new option to select fields and filter collections by clicking on names and attributes; an update to the tags field to allow multiple editing and include it in the Spotlight index and a UI update to blend in with Apple’s darker Leopard look.

For a full list of what’s new and fixed, take a look at the ‘What’s New?’ pages for each program.

And to all our users who are having turkey tonight - happy thanksgiving!

The Unofficial Link

Conor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:26:14 +0000

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has just posted an entry about Pocketpedia. They already knew our users love the Pedias and now they have discovered Pocketpedia and kindly linked to it on the App Store. They mention the interesting possibility of scanning barcodes on the iPhone instead of typing in the number for a search. We are looking into that possibility. We hope to be able to translate our video open source barcode scanning code for use with stills on the iPhone. In fact so are a few other developers who have contacted us about using our code on the iPhone. The iPhone SDK is a not even a year old and we are already seeing exciting applications on the App Store. Once the development community is allowed to grow I think we will begin to see even more exciting apps on the iPhone.

Pocketpedia 1.1

Nora — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:44:09 +0000

We sent Pocketpedia 1.1 to the App Store a few days ago, trying to time it with our 4.3.1 release of the Pedias. Today it’s been approved for release so check for the update on your iPhone/iPod touch! There are a whole slew of new features in version 1.1, including the most popular requests: internal search and different sorting options. For a complete list of new features and improvements, check out Pocketpedia’s What’s New? page.

There is still a lot to do for version 1.2. For those who sync Pocketpedia from a Mac, it’s a natural extension and a portable version of the Pedias but there are a lot of Windows users now with Pocketpedia. It seems the initial release was strong enough to stand on its own without the desktop programs, something we did not expect given the limitation of not being able to edit items. For those users, Pocketpedia needs to include the ability to edit in order to add personal comments and enter items manually that might not be found online. So that feature along with several others is on the horizon.

Pocketpedia has been an incredible success. In a single month from its July 11th launch to August 11th, it has been downloaded 84,580 times in the US store alone. At the other end is Peru with 12 downloads - not bad for a country where the official iPhone launch happened after August 11th.

A lot of users wrote about a missing feature - not being able to delete. It’s not that 1.0 did not have this feature (swiping your finger across an item presents a delete button) but this gesture is not intuitive yet for iPhone users. Since the iPhone OS allows new ways to interact with applications, we have a dream of physically interacting with the screen. Why have a delete button when you can simply strike an item off your list? But from the feedback for 1.0 we learned that we need to provide a regular button too. Just as Mac OS X applications have 4 ways of doing something (a menu bar, a contextual menu, a button and a shortcut key) the iPhone should have two – a gesture and a button.
Still, we haven’t given up hope on our dream: 1.1 has no “select random entry” button but shaking your iPhone will do the trick.

TV – Apparently It’s All the Rage

Conor — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:18:20 +0000

Dan at RowdyPixel.com has created a plug-in for TV Rage for those with a lot of TV season episodes. The plug-in has been crafted in order to download information specific to each single episode. In fact you have to include the season and episode number as part of the search to be able to determine the exact episode. “Burn Notice 02×01″ would download information for season two, episode one of Burn Notice. This is incredible useful for those keeping linked video files for each episode inside DVDpedia.

It’s not just a simple search plug-in, it also includes a level of flexibility unprecedented in any other plug-in. Under the plug-in menu you will find the “TVRage Options…” command that will let you change a number of settings on how to store the information, including the order of title-season-episode information. Head on over to rowdypixel.com to download and install the plug-in as well as to learn more about it. Please post any feedback in our forum and do not hesitate to donate to rowdypixel.com if you find the plug-in useful.

Front Row plug-in v. 2.0

Nora — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:52:26 +0000

Mathieu just sent us version 2.0 of the Front Row plug-in. You can download the new version here from our Extras page. Make sure you read the instructions on that page on how to install the plug-in on your AppleTV. Yes, you read that right, AppleTV support is now included, along with a collection view. Great update all around!
In fact, if you’re using the Front Row plug-in and find it useful, head on over to the para9 site and click on the donation button for some good karma and a happy Mathieu. (We just sent some money his way as a thank you for the continued updates.)

Any comments, suggestions and feedback about the plug-in, please post them in this thread in the Bruji Forum.