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Thanks! :-) To be honest, none of my formal training prepared me for what went into SnappyCam---only the "how" to go about learning to do so. I'm sure you could pick up a few tricks in the same way by working on a cool pet project or two.

With so many recent requests for AGIF, I'm absolutely going to add it to the app. (It's been on my list for a while, but lower priority than getting up a solid core product and the social sharing that is in development at the moment.)

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Out of curiosity, what kind of educational background do you have if you don't mind the question? As a highschool dropout it interests me. :)

I'm Aussie, so I did my schooling in Melbourne, Australia.

I don't recommend the same path for everyone, but my ugrad at RMIT University, dual bachelors of EE and CS. I then went on to do a Ph.D at the University of Melbourne in EE. My dissertation was on mathematical optimization of wireless and wireline DSL. (Prof Jamie Evans is an awesome guy if you're on the lookout for an advisor!)

I've been in SFO for just over 5.5 years, and started SnappyLabs after winning the "greencard lottery".

SnappyCam, you might say, is the embodiment of both a very practical ugrad and somewhat applied but very theoretical pgrad.

Congrats fellow Australian. Two of us here in an office in Adelaide just bought the app.

Guy behind me said "Hey, this is pretty cool. Have you seen... oh, you're looking at it already."

Onya mate! That's bloody awesome. :D

Impressive stuff! And just in time to capture some action shots of my puppy :-) -Appreciative fellow Australian, in Switzerland :)

Oi oi oi! :D

Hi, what is Adelaide like to work in? I assume you guys are in IT? From what I hear, it is mostly government work.

Adelaide is good. Plenty of gov & defence work if that is what you are after, but I've worked here nearly 15 years and never done either (ok, my current place is quasi-government, but still..)

I run a two-person web development business and have worked out of Adelaide for myself for 15 years. Always seems to be enough work around and a decent amount of variety.

The other SnappyCam purchaser I mentioned is an iOS/Android developer who is a sub-tenant in my office. We actually have a cheap, spare desk in this room at the moment if you wanted to visit and work for a while. Email me if you want to ask any questions.

I think all us Australians are coming out right now to congratulate him, haha. /Brisbane

high five

Another fellow Australian and Melburnian.

Well done on the app John!

Hah, I told you getting your PhD was a waste of time ;-)

LOL! Thanks @danpat. :-) How are you going these days? I heard you might be moving to the Big Apple?

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