Adobe Goes To War With Apple’s iPad, Pits “Full Web”Against Open Web
Adobe is going to war with Apple’s iPad, as this Adobe + HP demo video shows.
Apple has demonstrated that lack of Flash support isn’t going to keep people from buying iPhones by the millions. It’s betting that the same will hold true with the iPad.
The HP Slate demo is pretty slick – and if the [...] | YouTube Closed Captioning Fail – All Your Video Are Belong To Us
YouTube has introduced a new feature – automatic Closed Captioning – and it’s starting to look like they may have brought All Your Base Are Belong To Us into a new decade.
Automatic Closed-Captioning uses speech recognition technology to translated audio from videos into text.
It’s a great idea – but it often has unintentionally hilarious results.
Dan [...] | Apple iPad Coming April 3rd. But Where Is The PageMaker Of iBooks?
Apple today announced that its “magical and revolutionary” iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models.
In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
Beginning a [...] | Books In The Age Of The iPad – Good Riddance!
Book designer Craig Mod has published a very interesting article looking at books in the age of the iPad.
He argues that print is dying – and that it’s a good thing:
As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?
We’re losing the [...] | Social Media Keeping Quarantined Aussie From Going Mental, But Not From Going Viral
Christiaan Van Vuuren bas been stuck in quarantine for tuberculosis for two months.
He’s sick, and not in the sense of being sick, sick.
He’s making the most of his isolation, though, learning how to record songs on his laptop and making music videos, Twittering and making friends on Facebook.
And while Van Vuuren may be quarantined, it [...] | Flash Is Dead At Virgin America
Flash is dead – at least at Virgin America.
When the Apple iPad was introduced, we said that Flash Is Dead + The iPad Is Its Tombstone.
Why?
Flash is a great tool – but users and Web developers alike are better off developing standards-based content and not being locked into proprietary tools.
Virgin America appears to have come [...] | Apple iPad iBook Sneak Preview (Video)
This video is a sneak preview of Penguin Book’s iBook plans for the Apple iPad.
Penguin is bullish on the iPad iBook model, because giving Apple a 30% cut could be a lot more profitable that the 50% that they give traditional retailers.
One of the things that makes this iPad iBook preview interesting is that Penguin [...] | Apple TV Sales Up 35%
Apple TV sales are up 35% over last year, according to Apple COO Tim Cook.
The company has not revealed unit sales numbers for Apple TV. And, while the 35% growth rate would be enviable for most companies, it’s a new product category and Apple has yet to hit a home run with it.
“We’re continuing to [...] | 5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About YouTube Videos
You probably know that YouTube is, by far, the top video destination on the Web.
Here are some things about YouTube, though, that you probably don’t know:
5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About YouTube Videos
People now watch a lot of YouTube videos. The average US Internet user watches over three hours of YouTube videos per month.
Music [...] | Internet Now More Popular Than Newspapers For News
The Internet is now a more popular source of news than newspapers, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local [...] |
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VirSyn Tera Update Adds Universal Binary Support
VirSyn has updated Tera to version 3.2, adding support for Intel Macs.
| Native Instruments Bandstand Gets Mac Intel Update
Native Instruments today released Bandstand 1.0.2, an update for its professional General MIDI software instrument, adding Universal Binary support.
| NAMM Preview: Wave Arts Intros Master Restoration Suite
Master Restoration Suite is a comprehensive set of restoration plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, and acoustic recordings. The tools give extremely high quality results with minimal tweaking, hence they sound great and are easy to use.
| iTunes Hits Two Billion Sold Milestone
Apple today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store.
| Apple Intros iPod Phone
Apple today introduced iPhone, a new device that combines a state-of-the-art mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps—into one small and lightweight handheld device.
| Griffin Intros Evolve iPod Speakers
Griffin Technology today announced the unveiling of its new lineup of powered speaker systems. Evolve is a speaker system with a flat charging base that holds your iPod in a Universal Dock.
| Moby Remix Contest
M-Audio has teamed up with Beatport, Gibson and V2 Records to bring you the Moby Remix Contest.
| Zero-G Intros Degrees Of Abstract Sound Library
Zero-G has introduced Degrees of Abstract – 2Gb of experimental and cutting-edge sounds.
| Precisionsound Intros Dream Whistles for HALion, and Kontakt.
Precisionsound has introduced Dream Whistles, a new sound library for HALion, and Kontakt.
| PreSonus Announces Synth Bundles
PreSonus has announced that Lounge Lizard and Ultra Analog Session from Applied Acoustics Systems are included in PreSonus products starting with the FireStudio – 26x26 FireWire recording system.
| eMedia Intros News Guitar Pro Application
eMedia Guitar Pro 5.1 is the new Windows/Macintosh hybrid version of the best-selling multi-track tablature editor software for guitar, banjo and bass from Arobas Music.
| Griffin Intros 2007 Line Up
Griffin Technology today announced their 2007 lineup that will debut next week at the MacWorld Conference & Expo.
| Applied Acoustics Systems Releases Universal Binary Update
Applied Acoustics Systems has announced that their Professional and Session Series instruments are now available on Mac OS X as Universal Binaries and as RTAS plug-ins on both Mac OS X and Windows. This Technology Update also includes a handful of new features and several bug fixes.
| Novation Shipping XioSynth
The XioSynth features 200 hard-hitting onboard patches, utilising a new optional filter distortion to produce an even greater range of sounds than on previous synths; from the distinctive clean British sound to the filthiest and grittiest of sonic characters.
| Harmonic Sense Intros ChordMate For OS X
Harmonic Sense has released ChordMate for Mac OS X, an app that is designed to make it easy to choose chords for guitar.
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