A friend of mine bought me an iPad while on tour in the US. It was delivered to me in Sweden just a couple of days later. Been playing around with it a lot. I think it’s a fantastic device. It’s sleek, it’s fast, it’s extremely easy to use. My children are using it all the time to watch SVT Play and movies. Angry Birds HD is running a lot :-)

Well, so I had plenty of mail from users and friends about support for the iPad in my applications. I’m happy to tell you all that I just released iSubtitle 2.1.3 with an iPad export preset. Submerge 1.9.3 with iPad support was also released just a couple of days ago. I’m also making some major changes in RoadMovie 2.0, and it will of course have iPad and soft subtitle support.

I hope you get your hands on one of these iPads, it’s almost as magical and revolutionary as Apple claims it to be. Enjoy!

A lot of Submerge users wants to know how to export subtitled movies for their Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. I have added some detailed instructions on the Submerge support pages. Enjoy!

Submerge was just featured in MacUser UK, and it received a full score of five happy mice :-) Full review here...

“It's a rare thing when you find a piece of software that does exactly what you want it to do. Even rarer when it does it with speed, style and simplicity.”

I just want to wish my customers and friends a Happy New Year. Thank you for all your input and support. See you in 2009.



Best wishes / Jörgen

Yesterday, the application Bredbandskollen iPhone was released in the AppStore. We are proud to tell you that it was developed by Bitfield AB on commission for .SE. It’s an app to measure your iPhone’s bandwidth when using 3G or Edge. You can also see measurements from other people nearby. It has gotten very good reviews and a lot of press here in Sweden and it’s currently number 2 in the Top Free Apps section. You can read the press release here. Great news and congratulations to .SE.

Check it out in the App Store.

Hi all,

Me and my family is going on a trip to Goa, India. We will be back in about two weeks.

I can’t answer mail as frequently as you have been used to. Please try the support page if you have and problems activating or anything else.

See you!

As you can see I have given the site a new look. It gives more focus on my applications and it looks much better then the old one, I think. All movies are now played through my Flex 3 media player called FlexiPlayer. See more samples at http://www.flexiplayer.com.

Please report any errors or such on the contact page. Thanks!

Hope you like it :-)

Dear Readers,

I will go to Turkey on vacation between June 3-10. I will try to answer the most urgent mail messages from my iphone. Please try the support page if you are having trouble with any of my applications.

Now I'm off for a swim in the ocean :-) Bye!

Yesterday, Friday May 30, I had some major problems with my mail server. It was down for at least 12 hours :-( If you did send me any questions or such at that time they might have ended up in the endless void of the universe. Now everything is back online again.



Best regards / Jörgen

Almost forgot to mention that someone actually solved my trivia from the last blog entry.

The Submerge Icon is based on a picture from the movie Persona by Ingemar Bergman (1966). Read more at IMDB.



And the proud winner of a Submerge license is Karel Gillisen from the Netherlands. (Drumroll...).

Congratulations :-)

Hi all!

And thx for supporting Bitfield software :-) Big thx's to all of you!

RoadMovie 1.1 has just left the building and everything seems ok!

I'm a big fan of classical movies and swedish movies in particular...

Do you recognize from which movie I have been inspired when designing the Submerge application icon?

The first one who gives me the correct answer will get a free license of Submerge... Or a beeer...

Today we proudly present RoadMovie 1.0! A completely new application to handle your movie subtitling, encoding and uploading needs in one application.

Learn more...

I'm now back from a wonderful offpist skiing week in Serre Chevalier and the surroundings. Many, many thanks to Pia and Stefan for their fine powder noses and their never ending hospitality. If you're interested in backcountry skiing or climbing I suggest you check out their Mountaintime website.

Hi dear customers and friends,

From tomorrow and a week forward I will be in the french alps enjoying some nice backcountry powder skiing :-)
I can't answer your support questions daily but I'll try to answer the most urgent ones using my iPhone.

See you in a week.



Best regards / Jörgen

I just want to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and to all my friends and customers. This year has been great, and for the next year I will try to spend more time developing great mac (and maybe iphone) software. So thank you all, and see you next year.

Best regards / Jörgen

I have finally added PayPal support to my web store. Many potential buyers has been asking for this and now it's finally in place. Shop til' you drop :-)

Today I'm releasing a new application called SlideshowMovie. I needed an app that could create beautiful slideshows with real-time transitions without needing hundreds of lines of javascript or php or actionscript. This is a simple solution and it creates uncluttered web-pages with a minimum of html code in just a couple of clicks! Check it out...

I'm jump starting my comeback from a long vacation with a new release of Submerge, version 1.1. There's now support for more subtitle file formats like SubViewer 1 and 2 (.sub) and the minimalistic format MicroDVD. There's also a neat new feature to nudge the subtitles back and forth in time. Hope you'll like it!

I have also added a new section in the MovieGallery Support section on how to Modify Templates. Good reading if you need to do some customization of the built-in Templates.

If you want to see submerge localized in you native language please feel free to contact us. It's not hard and you don't need any special applications or technical knowledge. It's simple...

Just found a great review of Submerge at Softpedia. Read it!

It's been one week now since I released Submerge and this new site. The reactions has been very positive and a lot of people from europe find Submerge very useful. Me, myself, I use it daily to add subtitles to tv-series and movies, then I watch them on my brand new Apple TV. It just works great. :-) Conversion times (export to Apple TV) takes a long time but I usually start the conversion in the evening and everything is done by the morning. Would be great if Submerge could add the exported movie to iTunes when it's done. What new features would you like to see in Submerge. Just mail me and tell... By the way, I released a new version of Submerge today. Download it and try it out. The subtitle rendering speed has increased dramatically and there's some bug fixes too. Enjoy!

It's a big day today. Totally new site and a brand new application. I've been working for quite some time now on the new site and on the application Submerge. Feels exciting and a bit nervous to release them at the same time. Hopefully everything will work out fine, if not, please feel free to pop me a message...

I'm in Stockholm today preparing for a live broadcast from a press conference by the telecom company TeliaSonera. I'm using Wirecast from Vara Software to manage these broadcast. Wirecast is a very handy little application with which you can easily mix live images with pre-recorded material like slides and interviews and such. I use an ordinary DV-cam and I broadcast in 16:9 widescreen using H.264 and a screen size of 640x360. The result looks great and slides and such are crisp and clear. When the press conference is over I publish the movie in a channel much like the MovieGallery channels on TeliaSonera's internal network for on-demand viewing.

Started working with a new look and feel for the site today. I started looking for RapidWeaver themes that could easily be modified. My choice is a theme called BlackShadow from the italians at Multitheme. It has a lot of variations to begin with and I just plunged down in the css files to make it look like I wanted. The result is the site you're visiting right now as you read this. Enjoy!

Got my brand new MacBook Pro today. Now working to gather all docs and apps and stuff from three other computers into this MacBook Pro. I have a couple of hours of work ahead of me ;-)

First blog entry using RapidWeaver. Works great!