Putting BeOS on a machine that had previously run only Windows was a revelation. Elegant, efficient, and the rarely needed reboots took only seconds. But Be had a small team and their hardware support was focused on the standard modes of common hardware. Laptop hardware tends to be anything but standard. The Sony N505VE was a very lightweight laptop with a good sized screen. Its sound hardware was powerful, but unique and at the time undocumented, and so was entirely unsupported by BeOS. I wrote and open sourced a BeOS audio driver that used the YMF-744B's legacy SoundBlaster emulation to provide 8 bit audio output.

The publishers of Digiphone, a VOIP application for Windows, took a shortcut to getting Mac compatibility - they (indirectly) bought NetPhone from Electric Magic, and had me add support for DigiPhone's communications protocol and audio codec.

In 1994 the Internet was just starting to be available in people's homes and offices. NetPhone was the first application to support what's now known as VOIP (Voice Over IP) without requiring a high-speed connection.

Measurement in Motion is a pioneering math and science analysis and investigation tool. It lets students take measurements from real-world video footage, then tabulate, graph and derive secondary measurements from their data. Conversely, students can generate data algorithmically and superimpose it over video to provide visceral confirmation of hypothesized behavior.

Marrakech took the hypermedia concepts I explored in WorkSpace and applied them to the problem of managing workflow and assets for multimedia development.

MediaMaker was a ground-breaking application that provided a Finder-like interface to manage multimedia content, coupled with a timeline for assembling that content into a finished production. It controlled laserdisc players, VCRs and CD-ROM drives, managed video overlay cards, played AIFF files (no mp3s back then), MacroMind Director presentations and displayed PICT files (no JPEG either).

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