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Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 Officially Announced, MIDs and Menlow to Follow
Intel has officially presented the Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 (formerly known as McCaslin) and announced the new Menlow architecture with Silverthorn processors for 2008. They have also given us a peek and poke over Redflag’s MIDinux Linux distribution, which apparently has been designed for those mobile devices that can’t decide if they want to … Continued
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Rumor Smashed: Apple’s WWDC Keynote Not 3 Hours
We’d just reported that the Keynote, likely without iPhone and Leopard, would be a mindblowing, lord of the rings-esque 3 hours long. Actually, that’s wrong. https://gizmodo.com/update-apples-wwdc-keynote-not-3-hours-long-252926 The official word from Apple is that it’s actually 1.5 hours long. That is, 10:00am to 11:30am PST on Monday, June 11th. The WWDC schedule that showed a 3 … Continued
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Update: Apple’s WWDC Keynote Not 3 Hours Long
Seeing how 2006’s WWDC Keynote was only 1.5 hours, the announcement that Apple’s blocking off 3 hours makes us smell what the Rock is cooking (a.k.a., lift our eyebrows in a comical yet masculine way). What do we think’s going to happen? Well, we think Apple will formally unveil the iPhone features we didn’t see … Continued
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Deeda’s Pi Phone Fools Nobody
Now that everyone who’s even a little somebody’s getting (ahem, Meizu) into the touchscreen phone game, the nobodies are making some noise as well. Here’s Deeda’s Pi Phone, which supposedly has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, flash, Instant Messaging, Google Maps, zooming, vibrational touch feedback, bajillions of supported audio and video formats (including MPEG4), UWB, and a calculator—among … Continued
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I’m Apple and I’m Microsoft: British Comics Take on Gates and Jobs
A new sketch show from the BBC, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, takes off Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. It rather makes Apple’s current Mac vs PC ads look like outtakes from a Frasier episode. Given their pedigrees, Paul Whitehouse (he did The Fast Show and Harry Enfield (er, he didn’t), the comics behind … Continued
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Apple Rolls Out Final Cut Studio 2: First Impressions
If you’re interested in high-end video production, you’ll want to take a look at Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2. It’s chock full o’ apps, included a smooth new update to Final Cut Pro, now in version 6, Its main coolness is its ability to crunch HDTV video down to manageable sizes, made possible by ProRes … Continued
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The New Apple Color: Screenshots
Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 only has one actually, totally, new program. It’s called “Color”. Essentially described as advanced color correction, I was confused as to why what sounded to be a pack of professional filters were being touted as their own program. Then I checked out the video on Apple’s site. I grabbed a … Continued
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Apple @ NAB: Lots of Pro Software Stuff and Execs…and Done
The hardware part of the sermon is over, we believe. Right now, they’re going over Motion 3 video effects and faster hardware compression on the 8-Core Mac Pros. A 10-minute HD clip takes only 6 minutes to compress compared to 18 minutes in the previous version of the compressor. That’s about it. Nothing to get … Continued
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Apple Store is Back, Now with Final Cut Studio 2
The Apple store has come back online (as expected I guess) with a new goodie! Final Cut Studio 2 Existing users upgrade for $499, new for $1,299.00 The Studio suite includes Final Cut 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color (new), Compressor 3, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Livetype (the latter two of which were, … Continued
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Red’s 4K HD Video Camera to Work With Apple ProRes: Here’s what we know about Red
Red One‘s compatibility with Apple’s ProRes was a welcome surprise. There was some worry on our part, after the Red One camera delays, and after the prototypes were nearly lost to thieves last year. So we’re happy to see it taking off like this. Congrats to Ted Schilowitz, and his team. To learn more about … Continued
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Final Cut Pro is Now a Format Ho
Apple introduced Open Format for Final Cut Pro, allowing you to mix different formats on the timeline. They say “it just works,” and from the demo, looks like all kinds of formats can nicely live together on the same editing timeline, where they had to be transcoded to work together before. Then Apple showed some … Continued
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Final Cut Server Announced
Rob Schoeben, talking Final Cut, the video editing application. Now there are 800K users. Yeah, Final Cut is big, big big. Lots of plug-ins. Showed a snappy video of all the cool video that’s been created on Final Cut Pro. Introduced Final Cut Server. Gives editors ability to share video with each other. It’s cross … Continued
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Hot Leopard Shots From the New Seed [UPDATED]
The fanboys are sad that OS X Leopard is going to be late, so in the meantime, here are some fresh screenshots to keep em held over. There, there, it’ll be ok. https://gizmodo.com/official-apple-delays-leopard-iphone-is-priority-1-251911 These are shots from the latest build seeded to developers, 9A410. Charming name aside, this evolution of the beta unifies the UI … Continued
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New Mac vs. PC Ads Show Vista as Lardass
The latest Mac ad throws fire on the flames of the War on Craplets. A message to those PR people, engineers, product managers, VPs and CEOs at Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, and our other favorite PC makers: Don’t let the people in charge of putting these demos on your machines ruin your computers. Please, fight … Continued
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Yo! Apple’s NAB Event Tomorrow Here at 11AM PST
Remember: Be here tomorrow at 11am PST to watch us blog the Apple event at NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters conf in Las Vegas. We don’t know what’s coming down the pipe in a little more than 12 hours from now, but Apple at NAB has historically been all about AV software launches. In … Continued
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Rumor: Apple To Add “Top Secret” Features To Leopard
According to the good folks at AppleInsider, Steve & Co. plan to throw a few “top secret” features into Leopard, which may be the real cause for the operating system’s four-month delay. In the report, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu is quoted as saying that Apple will be good enough to reveal those secrets … Continued
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Dealzmodo: Up to $500 Off Refurbished iMacs
The Apple special deals store has restocked their iMacs and are offering savings up to $500. There is $500 off a 20-inch iMac with a 2GHz Inel Duo Core processor, 512MB memory, 250GB hard drive, CD/DVD burner and more for $1199 after savings. They also have $150 off a 17-inch iMac ($1049 final price) and … Continued
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Wi-Fi Equipped iPods Coming This Year?
Rumor has it that Apple is planning to release a Wi-Fi–enabled iPod by the end of the year. Component manufacturers in the far east claim that Apple has orders in for Wi-Fi modules for the music player, which would set up the iPod to compete directly with the Zune in the not-exactly-crowded Wi-Fi-enabled DAP market. … Continued
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