iFunia supports converting video for iMovie and
Final Cut Pro

post from prMac on 11 October 2009 11:28:00 PM. © prMac

iFunia has announced that newly-updated iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac supports converting any video to be imported to iMovie, Final Cut, Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro for further editing. iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac gives 3 easy steps to convert those video files to MOV/MPEG-4 format which can be recognized by Apple's editing software.

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FMC Adds Professional Certification Testing To
Their Service Offerings

post from prMac on 11 October 2009 05:33:00 PM. © prMac

Future Media Concepts announced that they are working alongside Pearson VUE for comprehensive test delivery. Pearson VUE is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs. Testing is offered exclusively through FMC Washington, D.C. using the Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center network of more than 5,000 sites in 165 countries.

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What Caused the Microsoft/Danger Disaster

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2009 03:08:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Make no mistake: this is a large-scale catastrophic loss of valuable data. The story reported here, that it was a botched SAN upgrade with no backup in place, jibes with what I’ve heard on background.

It belies Microsoft’s utter disregard for the value of Sidekick customer data and the veracity of Murphy’s Law.

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Review of Sky Burger

post from MacKids Blog on 11 October 2009 12:29:12 PM. © MacKids Blog

Sky Burger is an iPhone/iPod Touch app.My dad bought Sky Burger a while ago, and he let me play it on his iPhone. It seemed like fun, so I downloaded it. Now I can’t stop playing it! I thought it deserved a review.We’ll start with a little background:Quote from app description:Sky burger puts you to [...]

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Psystar, Apple aim to avoid January Trial

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 11 October 2009 12:05:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Both Apple and Psystar have filed separate motions, requesting a summary judgement from Judge Willia...

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$10,000 LPs Now Playing at the iTunes Store

post from TheAppleBlog on 11 October 2009 11:23:00 AM. © TheAppleBlog

itunes_lp_10000 Introduced by none other than Steve Jobs at the Apple Music Event last month, the iTunes LP adds content like lyrics, liner notes, animation, and video interviews to the traditional album for a little more money, at least for the consumer. It turns out Apple is charging artists $10,000 in production costs for creating an iTunes LP.

That’s what Brian McKinney of indie label Chocolate Lab Records told Gizmodo. McKinney sought information on how one went about making an iTunes LP, and it was relayed to him from an iTunes Store representative that “LPs aren’t being offered to indies and that there are only about 12 LPs being offered right now.” And that Apple is charging $10,000 in production fees.

If that sounds a tad high for your average indie band practically living out of the back of a van, perhaps that’s why there are so few iTunes LPs available a month after format was introduced. To contrast that with another Apple initiative, the App Store, it opened with 500 apps, and less than a week later had nearly a thousand.

If you are looking for a rationale as to why it’s impossible to put together some songs, videos, and lyrics for less than $10,000, don’t look at me. AppleInsider has some steroidal-strength apologia on the topic, though, something about “quality assurance” and that Apple doesn’t “want the new format associated with music the mainstream market doesn’t care about.” It will be great later, though, “open standards” and all that. Let’s hope so, because right now it looks like Apple is channeling the ghost of Sony’s proprietary standards past.

When Steve Jobs introduced the iTunes LP, he remarked that “some of us here are old enough that we actually bought LPs.” Some of us also remember sifting through boxes of LPs in record stores for hours and the joy of finding new music unlike anything we’d heard before. Unless Apple changes its policy, you’ll never have to worry about losing yourself among the virtual LPs at the iTunes Store.

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Name Squatting in the App Store

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2009 09:50:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

One solution would be for Apple to stop treating app names as unique, at least for those which aren’t yet released. It’s not like music albums or songs or movies are required to have unique titles.

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Google Search Options for Mobile

I love the comments from Windows Mobile and BlackBerry users complaining that it doesn’t work in their crummy browsers.

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Jailbreak your iPhone iPod 3.1.2 with Blackra1n

Finally GeoHotz released the first jailbreak for iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS with 3.1.2 firmware out of box. The 600kb utility is also capable of jailbreaking the iPod family including iPod touch 3G. Even the ipt3 is supported, but the ipt3 is tethered. In order[...]

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Cocoto Kart Online 1.0 released for iPhone and
iPod touch - Kart Racing

Eurocenter and Neko Entertainment have announced Cocoto Kart Online 1.0, their exciting new kart adventure for iPhone and iPod touch. The game features 12 fully animated drivers, 5 unique environments, high-quality sound tracks, crazy bonuses, grand prix and online battle mode. It provides both tilt control with automatic acceleration as well as console-like controls with digital pad and kart drifting. Bonuses are simply activated by shaking the device.

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