Tooble

Just before Christmas Tooble experienced an outage (much like the one from this summer). Again, YouTube made a number of changes which broke how Tooble downloaded videos. Again, our crack staff conquered the issue.

A huge thank you to all of the loyal users who sent in bug reports. The details you each provided were invaluable.

Most of us love to unwrap our holiday gifts as soon as possible, so we realize how frustrating the delay must have been. In the spirit of the season, however, almost all of you gave us the gift of patience…

Thank you so much!!!!!

Tonight we launched a new website. The new site lets Jesse and our other master coders focus on programming.

Earlier this month, YouTube made a number of changes which broke how Tooble downloaded videos. We fixed Tooble and everything is going swimmingly, but had a huge number of emails from people asking for help. We were drowning in support requests.

Now, all of the support requests all go to a single queue. No longer will we toss and turn at night wondering if we responded to all those emails for help.

Many of our loyal users noticed that Tooble stopped working at the end of July. This was a direct result of changes YouTube made to allow for longer videos and continue moving toward HTML5 throughout the service.

Since that change, we’ve been working furiously to fix Tooble. On August 6th we released an updated Mac application, and will have a Windows version available shortly. The next time you open Tooble you will be asked to download the newest version.

Thanks especially to our Tooble Pro users for sticking with us while we got everything working again.

Pro users will be happy to know that Tooble Pro now supports a slew of new sites!

New supported sites:

• Funny Or Die
• RuTube
• ExpoTV
• Engage Media
• Archive.Org Video
• Show Me Do
• Ebaums’ World
• Clips.rofl
• Aniboom.com
• Buzznet
• Desimad

Well, Tooble users, the best of the best, the dedicated and the loyal; we’ve done it. Since we first released Tooble you’ve heard us say that we had big plans for the future, that a pro version was coming, and that we were going to deliver all the features you’d been asking for, plus more. Well that day has come. Starting today you’ll be able to download videos from a ton of different sites, control how your video is downloaded and converted, extract audio from your videos, update on the fly, and control your download queue with Tooble Pro.

This project has been an odyssey of development, design, and collaboration that we couldn’t have done without the help of our users. We’re incredibly proud of what we have to offer today, and we can’t wait to get it out there in into our users’ hands. On the tooble website we’ve got a new page in the nav bar dedicated to Tooble Pro, I’d invite you to have a look at it, it’s some pretty exciting stuff.

http://www.tooble.tv/upgrade

Tooble Pro is still the same great software as the original Tooble, expanded to offer a level of options and control which will allow users to enjoy Internet video by their rules. We’re truly convinced that Tooble Pro offers an experience that no other product delivers. Having so many options in such a straightforward and easy to use interface is what we’ve worked so hard to deliver, and we know you’ll love it.

Once again, thank you to our users for your support. We hope you love Tooble Pro as much as we do.

After a long and exciting journey, Tooble Pro is finally finished!

Take control of your video with the new features and extras in Tooble Pro! Now you can download videos from a ton of different video sites in addition to YouTube, plus you can download the audio from any video and turn it into an mp3. Upgrade to Tooble Pro, and get all this plus more:

Supported sites:

• YouTube
• Break.com
• Myspace Video
• TwitVid
• TeacherTube
• Cracked.com
• YourDailyMedia
• LiveLeak
• blip.tv
• Qik
• Photobucket Video
• Google Video
• Invisible Movement Video

Audio-Only downloads:
Convert the audio from any video into an mp3

Download Control:
Now you can have Tooble download the highest quality video available, and choose to format it for iPods, iPhones, or keep the full resolution for full screen viewing! Additionally, users can now clear and cancel downloads in the queue from within the downloads window.

You can get Tooble Pro now for the limited-time only pre-release price of $5.99. It’s the same great tooble software you know and love, just expanded to give you even more control and more freedom to enjoy Internet video by your rules. Give it a try, we know you’ll love it!

A picture of the Tooble Team from last year’s World Wide Developer\s Conference is currently featured on Apple’s Student Developer website

The Tooble developers, Jesse, Forest, and Steve, will be attending the Macworld Conference and Expo of 2009. They will be leaving for Macworld on January 3rd and returning January 10th. Our booth will be located in Moscone West. The Tooble team has been working long and hard on some great new features for the Tooble Application, which will all be unveiled at Macworld.

Also, one of our beloved members of the team, Sue Heintz, will be presenting at the Expo.

The Tooble Share Application for Facebook, allows users to browse through Youtube’s feeds, search for videos, send them to friends, add them to their favorites, watch them right in the application, and best of all, put any video on your iPod in one click, free.

High school students, Jesse T Youngblood, Steve Abbagnaro, and Praveen Savalgi, were invited to YEI to tell the story of a software product that they had developed over the past 18 months. The product, called tooble, is a free software utility that puts video from the popular YouTube website onto iPods and other mobile devices. The program, which started as an independent study project, has blossomed into a full-fledged software company that boasts the accumulation of more than 250,000 users in less than 6 months.

The so ftware became immensely popular after the students exhibited it at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco in January of 2008. The Yale University students were very interested in hearing how these students managed to turn an idea into a hit piece of software in such a short time. Following the well-received lecture, the presenters were bombarded with questions from eager Yalies as to how they acheived their success.

The company was founded in 2006 by Dave Cook as a research and development business. It evolved into the success it is today after Sue Heintz, the teacher of the Cheshire Academy students, introduced them to Dave. The company has since been able to attract the interest of a group of investors, and has raised enough capital to see them through the next phase of development.