Picklish Photo & Video Galleries, now for OS X
I’m pleased to announce the latest update to Picklish is now completely cross-platform. Now you can create slick Flash photo and video galleries on your PC and your Mac! There’s no easier way to publish your photos and video to the net.
It was a big challenge making my first cross-platform application. Using MDM Zinc made it possible. Zinc is a great development system, however their OS X version doesn’t have nearly the number of features that the PC version does.
I use ffmpeg to encode video in FLV format. And, since Picklish is free, I can’t afford to include MP3 encoding functionality in the app itself—due to the fact I would need to pay royalties to the creators of the MP3 codec. I use Windows Media Player to encode the audio into MP3 format on the PC. For OS X, I use iTunes to encode the audio stream to MP3. Since Zinc supports AppleScript, I was able to tell iTunes to encode the audio stream.
So, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
