uplink.to

A forthcoming release schedule, remembering that quite literally *anything* can happen to change this, and is subject to the time constraints of my other work.

PhotoUpLink 2 for iPhone – waiting for review at Apple
New build Mac VideoUpLink – up next
New version of Torus for iPhone (point release + social)
PhotoUpLink 2 for iPhone Lite
VideoUpLink for iOS4.0 supporting multitasking for background downloads and iPhone 4 resolutions
PhotoUpLink 2 for iOS4.0 supporting multitasking for background downloads and iPhone 4 resolutions

Labor Day Weekend (September 6, 2010)

ProteinScope for Mac ****
VideoUpLink for Windows
PhotoUpLink 2 for Mac (desktop/Automator, Aperture, and iPhoto)

New Years Day 2011

Of course this is subject to change at any moment, but for people who are sending me bugs and feedback, thank you and here is an approximate timeline of when to expect releases.

PhotoUpLink 2.0 – using the same background photo as Torus. Here is where the photo was taken from

Kagi hosts the main storefront where you can buy licenses for my desktop products. iPhone purchasing is handled through iTunes. The disparate domain situation is the result of 10 years of gypsy development but the new platform for future growth is now in place. All domains now lead to Rome…

http://www.photouplink.com
http://www.videouplink.net
http://www.proteinscope.com
http://www.genomescope.net
http://www.mmorrisdev.com

PhotoUpLink was first developed in the second half of 2006, before there was an official SDK for iPhoto plugins. A couple of sites had done some reverse engineering, and written about it. That and learning how to use class-dump eventually led to the launch of PhotoUpLink for iPhoto in February of 2007. You can view the original press release here. There was no way to FTP directly from iPhoto at the time, and PhotoUpLink filled the gap.

My original research was during a 2006 summer vacation at a lake in Michigan. I never got in the water once, but I was able to create an iPhoto plugin that dumped selected items into a DeBabelizer batch list and execute a Debabelizer script using an awful, eye-watering combination of C, Cocoa, and generated text Applescripts.

I had spent four years at Equilibrium working on both the Mac and Windows versions of Debabelizer previously; so I started there instead of PhotoShop’s new Actions…. that never saw the light of day, but it was great hacking that gave me the foundation I needed to move forward. All of the the work I did at the time was on the now classic 12″ PowerBook G4 now described by some as Apple’s netbook of today.

It was most of the time connected to an external monitor and keyboard on my desk, next to the PC that was hosting MySQL to test the ODBC portion of PhotoUpLink. When Mrs. PhotoUpLink announced we were now a family, it became the primary research and shopping terminal for all the associated issues and accoutrements. Turns out having a G4 balanced on your head during most of your gestation has no ill effects! I’m now using an earlier Intel Core 2 Duo 19″ iMac.

It went off almost without a hitch, but the world kept spinning even though photouplink.com was in name server purgatory for a while. But here we are! uplink.to officially launches July 21st, next Wednesday, with the new version of PhotoUpLink for iPhone to follow soon after. Thanks for your help Uncle Dave!