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Cheshire Academy students at Macworld 2008

2008-03-12 09:51:11

CA TEAM ATTENDS MACWORLD 2008 TO EXHIBIT "TOOBLE"

Some of the youngest exhibitors attending Macworld 2008 are a team of Cheshire Academy students who expect to demonstrate their new software program, “tooble”, to thousands of attendees at this year’s show which runs from January 14 – 18 in San Francisco, CA.

“tooble” is definitely a product for its time. With just a few clicks, it allows users to browse, search and easily download video from the phenomenally popular YouTube website to mobile media devices like the video iPod, iPhone and AppleTV. This gives users the freedom to view selected videos anywhere, anytime and as often as they want.

“tooble” began as an independent study assignment for AP computer science student Jesse Youngblood ’08 of Guilford with guidance from computer science teacher Sue Heintz. It was part of a project with Gridlock, LLC, a Wallingford-based software development firm, in researching the distribution of video via the internet to be played back on regular televisions. One of the results of the R & D was discovering a simple way to get video from the web. It was the great design and ease of use that attracted representatives from Apple, Inc. to the Cheshire Academy campus in June of 2007. After meeting with the Cheshire team, they expressed a strong interest in adding the new “tooble” application to their line of mobile media devices. But there was one catch – Cheshire had to deliver a finished, working application by the end of summer.

That was a challenge that Jesse and Ms. Heintz were eager to meet. Jesse wrote over 10,000 lines of code for the Mac OS X version while Ms. Heintz did the testing. They also needed to develop a Windows version so they added fellow AP classmates Alex Catullo ’08 of Madison, CT, Sen “Forest” Fang ’09 of Shanghai, China, and alum Praveen Savalgi ’06 of Westville, CT, to round out the team. When classes resumed in September, they asked the student body to test, and name, their new program. With over 500 submissions, they selected “tooble” from Hamilton Levy ’08 of Woodbury, CT, who won an iPod nano for his winning name.

The “tooble” Mac version is a free download at www.tooble.tv The Windows version is in development and will be available later this year.

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