Potion Factory

Interview of Yours Truly

Andy Kim — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:19:18 -0700

Will Holmes was kind enough to interview me on his blog. I talk about square watermelons and Don Norman. I hear they're giving away licenses of Tangerine! and Voice Candy too.

Link to Interview

MacSanta is Back in Town

Andy Kim — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:22:11 -0800

MacSanta is back but in a slightly different format. You can use coupon code MACSANTA07 today to get a 20% discount at the Potion Factory Store. After today you can use MACSANTA07TEN to get 10% off until the end of the year.

There are new MacSanta deals every day so you'll want to keep an eye on it or subscribe to their feed.

Big thanks to Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba who put this together again.

Status Update

Andy Kim — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:57:24 -0700

I have been away for a few weeks on vacation but I'm back in California fully recharged. I finally got a new iPhone while vacationing and it proved to be an indispensable tool for running the bare essentials of the business remotely. I am not quite used to the virtual keyboard yet, but being able to reply to emails on the road while listening to music and snapping pictures felt like a major victory for road warriors everywhere. It was awesome being able to look up things like the Smoot on the spot.

So... getting back to work, I will be releasing minor updates to Voice Candy and Tangerine! soon.

There is also a new app in the works. It should be an interesting one and I'll be providing more information on it in the weeks and months to come.

My MacTalk Interview

Andy Kim — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:19:09 -0700

A shameless self-promotion:

MacTalk's Q&A With Notable Mac Users - #11 - Andy Kim from Potion Factory

Podcast Maker Announcement

Andy Kim — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:52:31 -0700

Podcast Maker is no longer a product of Potion Factory. Please visit its new home for support and sales inquiries.

Announcing Yet Another Blog

Andy Kim — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:32:02 -0800

I have been blogging right here on the company blog since the very beginning of the company's public debut, but 2007 is the year I have decided to take the plunge to maintain a separate personal blog. The company blog has become more of a news outlet for events and I feel like I will be more comfortable posting the sexy/juicy/nerdy stuff there. I just can't do that here without risking the company's reputation and/or boring you to death. In addition, I guarantee that you will get 100% more typos and grammatical errors on the new blog, all free of charge. By the way, I consider Cocoa sexy—just in case you were expecting something else.

Link

MacSanta

Andy Kim — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:12:50 -0800

Some of us developers have gotten together to bring you an awesome week of Mac software goodness at 20% discount. Our own software goes on sale starting from today until the 25th. Head on over to macsanta.com to see the details and to see the other companies participating. Rogue Amoeba, Bare Bones, Flying Meat, Karelia, Red Sweater, and Unsanity are some of the companies participating. Yeah, this is a sweet deal. Show your support of indie mac developers by taking advantage of this opportunity.

If you are a developer, you can join the promotion as well.

Link to MacSanta

Web Site 3.0

Andy Kim — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:54:49 -0800

Hello. We just launched the third iteration of our website. Originally, the intention was to just add a Tangerine! page but the project took on a life of its own and we somehow ended up with a drupal backed monster. The old site can still be seen here.

Tangerine Update and Ars Technica Interview

Andy Kim — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:45:13 -0700

We've been working non-stop to fix the crashes and hope to have another update soon. Most of the crashes were happening with the album art fetching so this time we're using a completely different approach. Thank you everyone who sent in crash reports and feedback. We haven't been able to respond to all of you because we've received a massive load of emails these past few days, but we do read each and every one of them and your feedback is much appreciated.

Moving on, here are answers to two frequently asked questions:

What is beat intensity?

Beat intensity is simply how strong the detected beat is. Hip-Hop and Techno music will usually have the
highest beat intensity while Classical music will have the lowest beat intensity. It is not the intensity of the music. However, upbeat songs usually have high beat intensity and high BPM. Tangerine tends to be more accurate with the BPM when the beat intensity is higher too.

I already have BPM values that I manually set in iTunes. Will Tangerine overwrite those?

Tangerine will not overwrite your iTunes BPM values. In fact it will use iTunes BPM values if present. Sometimes you may see ridiculous BPM numbers such as 13000. If this is you, that BPM is set in iTunes. As of the current beta, Tangerine will never set a BPM value outside the range of 52 to 180.

Now, a question for the reader:

Since we have launched the beta we've found one Tangerine and a second Tangerine that has gone 1.0 four days after. They both seem like pretty cool projects and it would be nice to avoid confusion amongst the users so we need a new name. So far we have come up with Tangerine! and Tangerine³. We would like to hear your suggestions and thoughts on this.

Lastly, I interviewed with Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica where I reveal a little more about Tangerine.

Jump to the Ars Technica Interview

Project Q Closed Beta

Andy Kim — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:37:18 -0700

We will soon do a closed beta of our next product, codenamed Project Q.

I won't announce details today, but it is a new smallish app in the audio category. If you join the beta, you will be expected to actively participate and provide input.

If you are interested, please sign up to the Yahoo! Group we have setup for the beta by following the link:

Project Q