April 9th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Burolo, Italy - Mac applications publisher Hyperbolic Software has announced the release of Tidy Up! 2, the latest version of the company’s award-winning duplicate finder and disk tidying utility. For a limited time, the regular price of $39 (USD) is being reduced to $30.
Tidy Up! has become a must-have utility for Mac owners seeking to reclaim disk space being taken up by duplicate files and packages. Employing a fast search algorithm that quickly scans any mounted drive volumes (hard drives, optical discs and portable drives) without writing an index, Tidy Up! locates duplicate items using a wide range of criteria including: owner application, time created or modified, name, label, extension and content. Tidy Up! also offers the capability to scan the databases of popular Apple applications such as iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes and Mail. Tidy Up! makes use of “Smart Baskets” for quick and easy organization of found items, with the ability to trash, move or archive duplicates, as well as the option to export a list of found items as HTML or text files.
Version 2 of Tidy Up! introduces nearly 50 new features to this already comprehensive tool. Among the key improvements are:
* A new Basic Search mode with over 90 predefined search types
* EXIF information supported through new search criteria and Smart Basket criteria
* The ability to exclude any supported applications (iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture and Mail) from the search, allowing for identification of items not included in their databases
* Smart Basket capability to identify items belonging to a particular album, playlist or mailbox
* Moved and trashed items may now be replaced with an alias or symbolic link
* A new and improved interface, including additional information displayed when selecting a found item
* New user manual
Pricing and Availability:
Version 2 of Tidy Up! requires OSX 10.5 or greater; for machines running earlier versions of Tiger and Leopard, Tidy Up! versions 1.2.11 and 1.4.10 are still available. For a limited time, Tidy Up! 2 can be purchased for $30 instead of the regular $39; users of Tidy Up! version 1.x can upgrade for $20.
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Hyperbolic Software has been creating award-winning software exclusively for the Macintosh since 1996. In addition to Tidy Up! the company publishes MacGizmo, Smart Trash, iTunes Dupe Barrier, Maigret and Doublet Scan (the Mac Classic only predecessor to Tidy Up!). Products may be purchased online.
April 8th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Los Angeles, CA / Boston, MA - The Final Cut Pro User Group Network (FCPUG Network) have announced a sneak peak at the agenda for the 8th Annual NAB FCPUG SuperMeet, to be held in the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio Hotel (Las Vegas, NV) on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 beginning at 4:30PM. It is expected this event will be the largest gathering of Final Cut Pro Users and digital content creators and filmmakers during the 2009 NAB Show.
“We’ve got something for everyone,” says Michael Horton, SuperMeet co-producer and founder of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group. “This is one of the strongest agendas of user driven presentations we have had in years.”
“Our SuperMeet marks the tenth anniversary of Final Cut Pro and much of what you will see on stage has never been seen before,” added Daniel Berube, SuperMeet co-producer and founder of the Boston Final Cut Pro User Group. “We will showcase brand new workflows for Final Cut Pro as well as premiere exciting new products.”
The agenda will feature breathtaking HD footage as screened by documentary filmmaker Arthur C. Smith, director of the acclaimed film, “Ice Bears of the Beaufort.” From tapeless HD acquisition to post, Art will show how he is bringing the digital age to Alaska’s Arctic Frontier by using the tools of digital cinema to produce this award-winning film.
Over 3 years in the making, “Playing For Change: Peace through Music” is the second film born out of an idea that director Mark Johnson had while watching two Monks play music in a NYC Subway 10 years ago. It is a powerful documentary that takes us around the globe then brings us together through the simple but transformative power of music. Jonathan Walls, co-director and editor, will present.
“Digital Guy” Bruce Nazarian will introduce for the very first time in public a simple workflow to author replicable Blu-ray discs entirely on a Macintosh.
Craig Yanagi of JVC and Tim Dashwood of DVInfo will give a hands-on look at “instant editing” in Final Cut Pro using native QuickTime files captured with the new JVC GY-HM700 Camcorder.
Karl Soule of Adobe will show off the newly announced roundtripping workflow involving direct import of Final Cu Pro project files into Creative Suite 4 Production Premium on both Mac and PC.
Final Cut Studio Guru Larry Jordan will give one of the first public demonstrations of the highly anticipated new music creation plug-in from SmartSound that works directly inside of Final Cut Pro. Post Production Supervisor Jeremy Garchow will show off a never before seen Final Cut Pro workflow that will shave hours of post off of Multi-cam production.
Kim Salyer of Video Arts in San Francisco and freelance producer/editor Joanne Dorgan will present a Final Cut Pro case study involving the Coca-Cola Pavilion and the Adidas Spiral Theater at the Beijing Olympics and filmmaker Steve Sherrick of RedUser will discuss Indy-style Red Digital Cinema Workflow and show footage. And back by popular demand, San Diego’s Wounded Marines Careers Foundation will premiere their newest video produced by their current class.
Rounding out the evening will be the “World Famous Raffle” with over $90,000 worth of prizes to be handed out to dozens of lucky winners, featuring “super secret” new product introductions as raffle prizes from JVC, AJA and Blackmagic Design.
The FCPUG Network will also be on the NAB show floor for the first time in South Hall with the “SuperBooth” (#SL10129), featuring a full four-day schedule of free half-hour training sessions by many of the countries most recognized Final Cut Studio Gurus and digital filmmakers. Presenters include: Alex Lindsey, Mark Spencer, Steve Kanter, Shane Ross, Rob Birnholz, Dan Berube, Philip Hodgetts, Larry Jordan, Arthur C. Smith, Jim Kanter, Richard Harrington, Noah Kadner, Anthony Artis, Ernie Schaffer, Adrian Ramsier, Gary Adcock, Rick Young, Karl Soule, Cynthia Stein, Scott Simmons, John Flowers, Norman Hollyn, Joanne Dorgan and Kim Salyer and Abba Shapiro.
Tickets are on sale now online only for $15.00 each and this event is expected to sell out. Historically every SuperMeet has always sold out. For daily updates on the 8th Annual NAB SuperMeet and to purchase tickets, please visit FCPUG Network online.
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About the Final Cut Pro User Group Network
The Final Cut Pro User Group Network is a worldwide community of Final Cut Pro and Digital Video User Groups officially recognized by Apple. The FCP UG Network’s mission is to build connections between Final Cut Pro users, filmmakers and professionals who wish to lead the digital filmmaking revolution. The FCP UG Network provides both advocacy and education about Digital Video on the Macintosh and membership opportunities for learning and growth in Digital Storytelling.
About the SuperMeets
SuperMeets are gatherings of Final Cut Pro editors, gurus and Mac-based digital filmmakers from throughout the world who use or want to learn to use Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite of applications, most importantly Final Cut Pro. SuperMeets are held annually along side large trade shows such as Macworld in San Francisco, NAB in Las Vegas, IBC in Amsterdam and in 2009 as a stand alone event in London. The agenda usually includes appearances by Apple, demos of new products, digital video tips and tricks, and filmmaker show and tells.
March 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Munich, Germany - MacRailSoft has announced the release of RailModeller 3.1.4, their solution for creating layouts for model railroads and slot cars for Apple Macintosh computers. More than 190 libraries are included, providing tracks and accessories from virtually any manufacturer of model railroad tracks, allowing the user to start planning their railroad empire right away.
The latest update allows layouts to be directly exported to TrainPlayer and brings several fixes to further improve the quality and usability of RailModeller. Other highlights in RailModeller include:
* Design model railroad and slot car layouts of up to 1000m x 1000m (or 3280ft x 3280ft)
* Build layouts in any scale from Z (”Miniclub”) to IIm/G (”LGB”, “Aristocraft”) simply via drag and drop
* Print in any scale starting from a single sheet of paper up to 1:1 scale
* View layouts in 3D to get an even better impression
* Export Layouts as Image Files (PSD, PNG, JPEG or TIFF)
* Automatically maintain partlist to provide an overview of the tracks used and the overall costs
* Keep track of your inventory of tracks using the integrated stock management
* Create new or customize the bundled libraries using the Railset Editor
System Requirements:
* Apple Macintosh (PowerPC or Intel)
* Mac OS X 10.3 or newer
* 20 MB available disk space
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MacRailSoft is a software company specializing in providing innovative solutions for model railroad and slot car enthusiasts. Copyright 2009 MacRailSoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
March 9th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Braunschweig, Germany - locr has released “locr Uploader 1.0″, a free iPhoto plug-in which provides a comfortable way to upload photos directly from iPhoto to locr. The announcement of the iPhoto plug-in completes the second step of locr’s strategic commitment to offer geophoto community and printing services to the Apple market.
For those Mac users that use iPhoto and want to explore their travel photos in a different and exciting way, the locr plug-in is certainly the best choice. locr uploader 1.0 provides a convenient way to link iPhoto with the premier geotagging photo community locr. All services and features of locr could be combined with iPhoto from now on.
The plug-in simplifies uploading of photos or complete albums in a very straight forward way. All iPhoto descriptions, titles and keywords could be exported. Previously geotagged photos as well as manually added geotags within iPhoto 09 will be identified and transferred to locr. Different sets could be added right from the export window, e.g. the privacy level or the image size. After the successful upload of photos the plugin writes the URL of the image to the iPhoto descriptions for easy access to the locr website. Missing geotags could also easily be attached within locr.
The free plug-in was developed by Norbert M. Doerner, the author of the popular digital asset manager CDFinder, and can be downloaded from the locr website.
“This plug-in combines all elaborate features of iPhoto with the possibilities of geophoto sharing with locr”, constitutes Rolf Richter, CEO of locr. “This is another great success of our strategy to establish locr as the leading community for Geophotos and travel photo books in the Macintosh environment.” “Working with the iPhoto plug-in opens new horizons in the offline photo organization”, said Norbert M. Doerner, author of CDFinder. “Mac users can discover the exciting world of Web 2.0 with just a few clicks.”
About CDFinder
CDFinder is the compact and fast digital asset manager for the Mac. The disk cataloger rapidly organizes your full disk library and backup archive of any size, and keeps track of your photos, songs, movies, files and folders anywhere. CDFinder quickly catalogs internal and external hard drives, USB sticks, server volumes, DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs, iPods, Blu-ray disks, and virtually anything that turns.
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locr is a revolutionary geotagging photo community. According to the slogan “Geotag, Print & Share - Show your World in Photos”- locr offers users the possibility of visualizing photos with the aid of street maps, satellite images and location information. locr has specialized in travel-, geophotography and geophoto-software solutions for digital cameras and mobile phones. With a GPS-Mobile Phone, a digital camera with integrated GPS or a GPS-accessory device photos can be geotagged and uploaded to locr. Within the community people from all over the world share, rate and comment the most beautiful photos. With the “locr Geophoto Book” the first travel photo book that includes auto-created street maps, locr will extend its product range with print products in spring 2009. locr was founded in September 2006 in Brunswick, Germany.
March 9th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Apple … Apple … Apple … you all seriously need to have your heads examined. Every time we see those television commercials about the iPhone … how super cool it is – how many awesome things it does … well, to be honest, we just have to laugh of loud – because we know that’s only half the truth.
One of the great things about the iPhone is that …
if you want to look like an idiot – there is an app for that
if you want to be gross – there is an app for that
if you want to be a pervert – there is an app for that
if you want to be stupid – there is an app for that
Let’s take a look at a new KRAPPS that hit the App Store yesterday … the Nothing app, by NTP. No, we are not making this up … one of the great things about the iPhone is that it does nothing. No, we are not drunk … Apple really did approve an app about nothing. Still don’t believe us … read the app’s description below:
So the Nothing app is essentially a joke … the user touches the Nothing Button and a series of different “nothing messages” appear:
“absolutely nothing”
“nothing else matter”
“nothing compares to you”
“nothing ventured, nothing gained”
“made you look” (little dev humor here)
Ha! Ha! Ha! … yeah we get it. The whole Seinfeld thing … a show about nothing – an app about nothing … poking fun (like we do) at KRAPPS. Excellent work NTP. A subtle poke at Apple for approving endless KRAPPS. Still need proof to The Dumbing Of Apple – the Nothing app is available for sale in the App Store for 99 cents.
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