(This was originally posted on my personal blog.)

Well I just got done recording my first, developer podcast, being the MacSB (software business) podcast. It was a roundtable with Steve (Scotty) Scott, Mike Lee, Kenneth Ballenegger and John Fox.
It was the most fun I have had in a LONG time and was in complete hysterics for moments of the pre and post show banter. Those guys are hilarious!
We discussed the iPhone SDK, bundles and charity and bloody hell was there some great discussion, I felt like I was able to contribute but was really in awe of the likes of Mike Lee who I have been looking up to for a while and just felt honored to be on the same panel as these experienced and seriously talented people. It was also neat to be on the panel with a fellow young up and comer in the form of Kenneth Ballenegger, who ironically makes “Exces” a competing product of BitClamp (and yes I am not linking that out of pure spite ;-)).
What was seriously eye opening was what Mike was talking about charities, I can’t discuss this too much without the podcast to refer to, but download it when its out and have a listen, its truly inspiring at times and made me feel seriously inadequate!
However, what I really want to mention is something that will (probably) not see the light of the day on the podcast. You may not be aware but these things are recorded using a skype conference call with a chat window open, you use the chat window to signify you wish to speak like raising your hand if you will. (Although I absolutely sucked at this early on!). We managed to get a separate dialog going in the chat window at times, I even burst out laughing at a joke made in the chat window on the recording…. yeah… its going to sound like I’m completely nuts!
Before and after, however, was where hilarity really ensued, “yo mamma” jokes, immaturity, geekiness, it was all there and I haven’t really had an experience like it in a while.
I would like to thank Scotty for inviting me in the first place as well as the other members of the panel for making it such a fun evening. Hopefully we all stay in touch!

So, I’m sure by now that some of you would have noticed that when you sign up for MacHeist you get BitClamp for free.
I better clarify. You do indeed get BitClamp for free, but you don’t get the rights to future updates of the software, the app won’t even update itself.
For those “luxuries” you need to pay for the thing
Good luck with the heist!

So we have been selling for a while now and I have had the usual couple of bugs discovered, so we shipped 1.01 in the early hours of this morning.
This update fixes the following:

The trial now does not expire when entering an incorrect serial number.
The “Ask for decryption confirmation” preference now works as expected.
The URL’s have been updated.
Added another error dialog explaining a known issue to users (see below).

However, as I wanted to get those fixes out there are still 2 known issues.
There seems to be a bug in the eSellerate engine. If you run BitClamp for a folder whose name contains a space (some examples have been “my applications” and “3rd party apps”) The engine fails to install itself and so forces BitClamp to quit.
Im working on this with eSellerate as we speak so a fix isn’t far off, but a more descriptive error message, including the workaround
The second bug is very rare. But occasionally BitClamp seems to not be able to decompress one of its files. Luckily I caught an example of this and I’m working very hard for a fix. Expect to see it in the next week or so.
Other than that everything seems to be pretty smooth, some have had issues registering, but that appears to be traffic to the servers as the issue resolved itself after some time.
Thanks to the many of you that bought BitClamp on the first 2 days and the many downloaders. I have had some great feedback and 1.1 is set to be a hot release. However, we are still in need of publicity. If anyone would like a free review license - contact me through the form.
We are however, a Staff Pick on Apple.com.

Hey guys,
Sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled updates of BitClamp but our good friend Matthew Brewer over at MacFanatic has got a post on the blog asking if there is anyone out there who can give some of their time to blog, moderate the forums and podcast.
The site has a huge amount of potential, and it could be a great way to get into blogging and podcasting. Some of you may or may not know that I blog for MacApper and AppsForMacs as well as having a weekly segment on The Mac Review Cast .
I started by just enjoying writing for AppsForMacs, and now Im paid for it! So you never know where it could take you, and Im dying to see what that site could be like with a great team of writers.
So head over here for details and to get in touch with Matt (who is a great guy by the way ).

Now to reward your patience:
We have a build of BitClamp going into final testing now and were aiming for a 1st November launch. Now that date is not “official” yet as the site is yet to be completed, but as soon as it is I will update the front page to reflect it and of course blog it.
Enjoy!

If you didnt hear me on MacLive, I will be posting the interview up here shortly.
However, the big news that Mark managed to get out of me is that BitClamp is fully cross platform and will run in exactly the same way on windows (and linux if we get the demand).
The fact is - files move between platforms so why not BitClamp, Im sure this will please a few people (especially corporate users).
Windows support will not come straight away - we have concentrated on the Mac version for now, but it will come out shortly after.
The versions will be identical in pretty much every way.
Hope this helps a bunch of people