This was a bogus effect which didn't actually adjust audio at all, based on a story told by the infamous Mixerman, who detailed his experiences as a recording engineer. We created an audio plugin called “RAMP”, the Rouge Amoeba Mastering Plugin, which users could actually download and use with Audio Hijack. We really went all out for what proved to be our final joke. We'd been working on it in secret for months, and just a few weeks later, it shipped. While we of course had no plans to abandon the Mac, that screenshot of Airfoil for Windows was entirely real. In 2006, a partial truth was disguised as a joke. However, in the text in the fake news post, we seemed to confuse the Rogue/Rouge name quite a bit ourselves! Clicking it took the user on to our normal page.įor this one, we made use of the incorrectly spelled “Rouge Amoeba” name for another faux news article. We then uploaded it to the server, and set the home page to load that mirrored screenshot. If memory serves, we took a screenshot of the standard home page, then mirrored it in Photoshop. However, in 2004, it really wasn't possible to do this in code. In our second year, we applied a simple mirror effect to the front page. This idea originated from customer reactions we'd seen to the original Audio Hijack, where folks incorrectly asserted “This can't be legal!”. This joke often used the name "Rouge Amoeba", a common misspelling of our real name.īelow, you can see some historical screenshots (click for full-size versions of any of them), and read more about each joke.įor our first April Fools’ joke, we wrote a news story about the fictitious sale of the company to the then-powerful RIAA.
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