Apple delays Apple TV “Take 2” software
Apple’s “MacBook Air Now Shipping” announcement had a bit of bad news hidden insde. “CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2008—Apple® today announced that MacBook Airâ„¢, the world’s thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches... Read More
Adobe updates After Effects to 8.0.2
Well, unfortunately it doesn’t fix Apple’s QuickTime 7.4 debacle, but Adobe has finally released After Effects 8.0.2. The update’s big feature is the newly added support for content from Panasonic P2 equipment, without transcoding or rewrapping. Adobe After Effects supports the Panasonic Op-Atom variant of MXF, which is the format used by Panasonic DV, DVCPRO,... Read More
Steve’s “One More Thing” shows up a week late
Odds are a pink 8GB nano would have caused a riot at last week’s Macworld Keynote if Jobs had made it his “One More Thing”, but at least a riot implies strong emotions, something this year’s Macworld speech did not deliver. Speaking of strong emotions, what better way to say “I don’t know a thing about picking out jewelry” this Valentine’s... Read More
Microsoft updates its sad, sad Mactopia site
Microsoft’s ironically named “Mactopia” site has been looking pretty sad lately. It seems that each year Microsoft drops Mac support for one more of its products, and the “Mac” + “Utopia” naming scheme has become something of a sad joke. Aside from the never-been-downloaded Messenger 6 for Mac, all that’s left in this “Mactopia”... Read More
Apple’s Mac Pro announcement makes Blu-ray an unlikely candidate for Macworld debut
Apple’s newly announced Mac Pros seem like real power houses, but one thing is preventing them from being truly state-of-the-art: A Blu-ray drive. The current tech specs list the new Mac Pro as shipping with a regular old “Super Drive”, and there is no custom Blu-ray add-on option. Yes, there is still the standard extra optical bay found in previous models which... Read More
Transmission v1.00 released – Let the thefts begin!
Sure, we all love STUFF, but who wants to pay for it? I myself drive to work in a stolen car and live in a squatter’s apartment. Yes, sticking it to the man seems like a full time job sometimes, but it is really the only way for me to get all that I am entitled to. Luckily, the good folks over at Transmission have made my life all that much easier by (finally) releasing version... Read More
Aero Quartet releases SimpleMovieX 3.6.2
Aero Quartet has released version 3.6.2 of SimpleMovieX, their lightweight Mac OS X movie editor. Sort of a cross between QuickTime Pro and Rogue Amoeba’s Fission, SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video formats AVI, MPEG and iPod MP4. The main advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding is required to save edited movies.... Read More
Where’s Gear Live’s “cease and desist” letter?
Separating fact from fiction is often no easy task, and this is even more true when it comes to the Mac rumor community. In these days of Photoshop and affordable versions of previously “pro-only” effects software (such as Maya and Shake), picking out the real “leaked” photos and videos from from the fan creations is increasingly difficult. To date there... Read More
Adobe misses its first Leopard compatibility deadline
“We expect to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007” – Adobe Remember back right around the time when Leopard was due to be released, Adobe put out this PDF meant to scare educate potential Leopard buyers as to possible incompatibilities between Apple’s new OS and Adobe’s CS3 Suite of apps? In it, Adobe... Read More
Apple releases secuirty update 2007-09 (again)
Have you ever experienced déjà vu? You know, the feeling that somehow, somewhere, you’ve downloaded the same security update twice? Well, you’ll be happy to know, it’s not just you. Just four days after Apple released Security Update 2007-09 version 1.0, they today released it again, in the form of Security Update 2007-09 version 1.1 (available via Software... Read More
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