One of the cool ways that you can use iBeacons is to incorporate them into your native app so that a customer is engaged from the moment they enter your store. To demonstrate this, we created a sample app, released some sample code, created a tutorial, and even uploaded a video! Check them out at:…
I received this email from a customer years ago, and refer to it often. I wish I was this clever. From: <redacted> Date: November 1, 2007 9:14:28 AM PDT To: <support@twocanoes.com> Subject: Winclone killed my hamster. I was in the middle of using Winclone on my Mac Pro last night when I discovered my hamster…
Mobile wallets combine with beacon devices and point-of-sale systems to raise the in-store shopping experience.
Bleu Setup is the configuration app for Bleu Station, the iBeacon compatible Bluetooth hardware from Twocanoes Software. This video shows how to use Bleu Setup to create a Beacon Enabled pass for passbook that can be shared with others. When someone with a iBeacon enabled pass gets in range of your Bleu Station, the pass…
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you hold down the option key when booting up your Mac, you’ll see both a “EFI” and a “Windows” volume listed? Why do both show up? Which is the correct one to select? Turns out that the first question is easier to answer than the second. If there…
Beacons have been getting a lot of press lately about how they are going to transform retail, but iBeacons are much more than that. You can use them for a bunch of cool stuff with your iPhone, your Mac, and a couple of iBeacons. First, a bit of background. iBeacons are Bluetooth devices that broadcast…
We have been adding some support for creating Passbook passes within Bleu Setup, and I have been coding the backend to actually sign the passes. I had some issues with signing the passes initially, and it turns out that the passTypeIdentifier and teamIdentifier must match the appropriate values in the certificate you used to sign…
We have been working hard to get Winclone updated to work with the recent MacBook Air, iMac, and MacBook Pro EFI with Windows 8 natively in EFI. It turns out that the new hardware not only supports Windows booting in EFI mode, but also installs that way by default when using bootcamp assistant. When you…
About a week ago, we released a new utility app for iOS called Guest Pass that let’s you create a configuration for your wireless network and email the configuration to a friend or colleague. Once the person receives the configuration on their Mac or iPhone/iPad, they will have access to your wireless network until the…
iBeacon technology is pretty new, and people are still thinking up ways to use it. There’s lots of excitement about the possibilities, but there’s also lots of concern about the potential for privacy invasion and spam. The two opposing extremes break down roughly like this: iBeacon is great! Retailers are going to be able to…
At Twocanoes Labs we’ve been focused on the Bleu Station hardware and apps, but I recently discovered a useful method to keep a live travel log that requires no special hardware aside from an iOS device. It does require Geohopper for iOS, a Zapier account and Google Docs. There seem to be a billion tracking…
How Apple’s iBeacon Could Upend Retail Shopping austincanoe: A lot of the iBeacon stuff seem to enthuse about how retailers are going to get our money faster and easier. So it’s nice to see some applications that would actually make life better for people. With iBeacon, people who are vision impaired could be easily guided…
We got a Nexus 7 Android tablet here at Twocanoes Labs to test with iBeacon support. The folks over at Radius Networks have both a iBeacon app and an Android beacon service. They also make their iBeacon app available on the Google Play store. We wanted to see how it would work with our Bleu…
Twocanoes Software announces the release of Bleu Station, a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) hardware device for proximity detection in iOS 7. Included in the release are Bleu Setup for iOS, Geohopper for iOS, Geohopper for Mac, Geohopper for Mac Actions website and Beaconfinder.com, a resource for locating public beacons.
Today is a big day at twocanoes. We are releasing six new or updated projects to support our efforts around proximity. The biggest news is our iBeacon hardware, Bleu Station. When adding in support for iBeacons to Geohopper for iOS so Geohopper can notify your friends and family when in the proximity of a beacon,…
Twocanoes Software today announces updates to Winclone 4 and Boot Runner with full compatibility for OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Effortlessly transfer Windows between drives or over the network. Winclone 4 is an essential solution for cloning, resizing and migrating Boot Camp on the Mac. Winclone Pro 4 also creates installation packages for easy mass deployment of Boot Camp in enterprise environments. Boot Runner is a selection utility for full startup management of multi-boot Macs.
Twocanoes Software announces the release of Winclone 4.2.2, featuring compatibility with Windows 8.1. Winclone 4 is an essential solution for cloning, resizing and migrating Boot Camp on the Mac. Winclone creates a clone of the Windows Boot Camp partition for quick recovery or migration to another Mac. Transfer Windows between drives or over the network. Winclone also features the capability to migrate a PC to a Mac Boot Camp volume.
As Apple releases iOS 7, iBeacons are now available for app developers to start incorporating into their applications. Our iOS app, Geohopper, allows you to trigger actions based on entering and exiting physical locations and we were very excited when iBeacons support was announced. iBeacon allows us to get a lot more granular with detecting…
