A new year... a new office!

The new year brings some exciting news for Didgeroo. Over the Christmas break we moved into our new office in London's the uber-trendy Hoxton precinct, just north of the City.

 

Our new address is:

12-18 Hoxton Street (third floor)
Shoreditch, London
N1 6NG

The new office space is a converted warehouse shared amongst a dynamic group of dotcom startups. Some of these include:

• Songkick.com
• Habit Industries
• Amplicate.com
• Zolmo (featured in this month's Wired magazine!)
• Whosampled.com

The networking opportunities working alongside companies like these are sure to help advance Didgeroo.  These fantastic opportunities aren't just limited to our new office either,  since the local area around here is know as The Silicon Roundabout - London's answer to California's Silicon Valley.

So with this in mind, 2010 looks set to be an exciting year for Didgeroo!

 

UPDATE - Wired UK Magazine has publish an artilice. Read here and check out this great image they have made (unfortunately Didgeroo was too late to be included but you will find Songkick and others in our buliding listed)

Today Didgeroo launched another site built on its IndieSite.org platform.

Andy J Gallagher is an independent British punk rocker.  Previously Andy had released recordings on iTunes and other distribution services, however for his new studio album - Helicopter Dolphins Submarine, he want to go completely independent.

Andy commented "IndieSite is the business.  I get to sell anything I like and I keep all the money. iTunes can go get stuffed".

You can visit Andy's new site here : http://www.andyjgallagher.com

 

iTunes LP is a 256kbps unprotected AAC album that includes digital extras.

These digital extras include photos, videos and notes.

When you download an iTunes LP it includes all the .M4A music files along with a large (potentially over 500MB) .ITLP file for the digital extras. At this stage Apple has not released a dedicated iTunes LP Development Kit.  However it is still possible to create your own .ITLP beacuse it is simply a standard Web Archive containing a bunch of HTML, JS and CSS files along with the media files.

To view the contents of an .ITLP you need only to right click it and select "Show Package Contents":

You can find more information on building an ITunes LP on Jay Robinson's blog.

Didgeroo can also create iTunes LP. If you have an album on iTunes and you would like to turn it into an iTunes LP then contact us today.

Did you notice many differences after upgrading to your Mac to Snow Leopard?

One change I instantly noticed was how vivid the screen colours are now.  They appear more saturated.  After some googling I discovered that Snow Leopard's default colour profile has changed from 1.8 to 2.2.  You can see the difference here:

Gamma 2.2 is considered industry standard so I think this is a good more. You can read more about gamma correction in this interesting Wikipedia article.

Quicktime X Pro

Another noticeable change to Snow Leopard is Quicktime X.  The new version features a very clever  seemless window that looks great! However it lacks many of the features I had come to rely upon.  Basically all the export options have been dumbed down! Great for many home users but a disaster for any video professionals.

Well fear not, the answer is simple.  You can still use Quicktime 7 Pro. In fact it's already installed. Take a look in the Utilities folder under Applications.

Overall I am very happy with the upgrade. Good work Apple!