I had planned on releasing version 2.1.2 much sooner than today, but I had a lot of other work to do and so I did not have any time until today.  

Flash Video Downloader 2 has been updated to version 2.1.1 so please go to the FVD2 page to get it and to see the changelog.  

So far, I only have one program on this site (Flash Video Downloader 2).  As those of you who are programmers know, writing good software can take quite a bit of time; especially if you are still learning Objective-C :)

I have been working a little bit on my next program.  I haven't had much time to work on it because I've had a really busy semester at College.  Soon I have Finals, and then I'm going on a trip.  I should have some time over Winter Break to hopefully finish this program.  For now, all I can say is that it is a Menubar application (all of those little icons in the top right of your screen next to your clock).  It's a bit less ambitious and coplicated (hopefully) than Flash Video Downloader 2 was, and I plan to write it much more efficiently and cleaner. 

I have received many emails asking me to update Flash Video Downloader 2 to be able to download videos from websites that host copyrighted videos (e.g. tv shows, movies, etc).  Mostly, people want to download videos from Hulu.com. 

These websites, while they typically do not use DRM, often use a non-standard way of streaming their videos, which makes FVD2 unable to download them.  I designed FVD2 to be compatible with most websites by not hard-coding special cases for each site, but by creating a design that will work on the way that flash videos are usually streamed.  This prevents you from continuously having to update FVD2 for compatibility updates, and prevents me from having to spend all of my time making FVD2 compatible with more sites. 

Another reason why I will not make FVD2 work with sites like Hulu, is that you should not be trying to download those videos anyways.  Downloading videos from sites like Youtube is already a "grey area" (especially when people upload copyrighted content to sites like Youtube).  I don't want to be held liable for people downloading copyrighted videos from sties like Hulu. 

If you want to download a tv show or movie you really like, you should buy it from a store, iTunes, Amazon, etc. 

I just looked at the site, and it seems that Google has made some changes to Google Sites.  Unfortunately, these changes have slightly messed up the color scheme on the Tesseract Software Website.  There has also been some minor layout changes that have messed some other things up as well. 

I've been trying to fix it, but so far, it appears to have no effect.  Hopefully, Google will reverse the changes soon (or at least explain what they did).  Please bear with me until the colors on the site are fixed.