We have a new blog site: http://blog.depiction.com

This will be our final entry here. The link at the top of most pages on our site will take you to the new blog site above. Our hope is to serve our community better with more blog features, including a blog roll (blogs we follow), tweets from Depiction's Twitter account and Facebook followers.

This Saturday, February 6, Depiction staff (including yours truly) will be at FrostFest 2010 in Richmond, Virginia. We're looking forward to meeting some Depiction users, and hopefully creating many more! If you're going to be there, drop by and say 'hi'--we're on a corner table across from

Today a good friend of Depiction, Brian, a third-party developer, demoed a very early version of his APRS Live add-on here at the office. This add-on, which will be going into beta very soon, takes data that comes in over radio frequencies, via an antenna, radio and terminal node controller. What this means is that live data is brought into Depiction without Internet access. Pretty cool. The software will eventually allow users to send and recieve short messages right from Depiction.

Brian shows his stuff:

We're sending David Friedman, our Amateur Radio technical consultant to the ARRL Florida State Convention this weekend, 12/5-6/2009.

David will man a booth with two laptops running Depiction, be available to tell you about his experience using Depiction in EmComm operations and have information about discounts for your ARES/RACES teams. He'll have some other special things, too, so look for him there!

The QST article by Depiction user David Friedman, KE7GOY, is now available for download as a PDF. David has used Depiction to do some pretty remarkable things, some of which he describes in the article. Here's how it kicks off:

Yesterday's webinar "Depicting Your Disaster: Helping Communities and Businesses Prepare" had over 200 attendees! Captain Buike did a great job of showing the various ways Depiction can be used by governments, businesses and other organizations to prepare for disasters. If you missed it, you can watch the video here.

A new version of Depiction is available for purchase or trial download--1.01.l. The new release makes Depiction even more powerful and easy to use, with new data sources, better shape editing tools and a significantly enhanced ability to deal with files with many data points. If you own a copy of Depiction, you can run the updater right now to get this new version.

Want to get a copy of Depiction for free? Depiction is being used all over world, but not quite everywhere. We're looking to spread Depiction into regions that don't have it yet, and so we are offering "Regional Early Adopter Grants" to the first people who can show us a way to use Depiction in their area.

Jeff Thurston at the Vector One blog downloaded Depiction last night and tried it out--you can read his review here. It's a great overview of some of the things Depiction can do. Here's the key paragraph:

As you might have seen on the site, Depiction's introductory discount ends in August--starting August 1, the price will be $199.00. The good news, of course, is that you can save 55% by purchasing Depiction right now. But why is the price going up? Mike explains in the news release we just put out this morning.