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Boinx ships iStopMotion for iPad 1.5 -- You can win a copy of the app
Boinx Software announced today that iStopMotion for iPad version 1.5 has shipped. The latest version of the app, which retails for US$9.99, works with the iPad mini and has a number of other new features. Current owners receive a free upgrade to the new version. There's now a way to insert black or white blank frames into a clip, new sharing options (animations uploaded to YouTube or Dropbox can be shared via Twitter, Facebook, and (iOS 6 only) Sina Weibo). Boinx has built in an accessories page, which displays products that can be used with iStopMotion for iPad to improve and streamline your stop-motion animations. TUAW has teamed with Boinx to give away ten copies of the app today. To have a chance to win, you must follow TUAW on either Twitter (@tuaw) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/tuaw.fb) and also follow @boinxsoftware on Twitter. Our social media editor and TUAW Talkcast gadabout Kelly Guimont will send out instructions for the giveaway later today. Good luck!
Boinx Software's early push on the Mac App Store
Here at Macworld in San Francisco, CA, we had a chance yesterday to sit down with Boinx Software CEO Oliver Breidenbach, both to hear about the new BoinxTV Home, and also to chat about how the company is doing two weeks into the Mac App Store. The company has been quite aggressive with Mac App Store releases, with everything from the $17 utility Mousepose, going all the way up to the $500 full version of iStopMotion Pro. Breidenbach says that App Store sales are going "great" -- while Apple's review process is taking significantly longer than the iOS store (though he suspects that's simply because it's so much newer), what he's seeing is that App Store revenue "looks as if it's on top of existing channels." That is, customers on the Mac App Store aren't the same customers buying Boinx Software through the company's website or other partners, which means that Mac App Store sales, right now, are brand new income. "But," Breidenbach continues, "I don't think it's going to stay that way."
