Movavi Video Converter utilizes export presets

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Movavi has launched a self-titled video converter, able to transfer video footage and associated aud...

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iTunes U: Learning Wherever You Are

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iTunes U (iTunes Link), part of the iTunes Store, is an amazing venue for top notch educational content from the world’s greatest universities, institutions, museums and other public educational foundations. From language lessons to audiobooks to lectures and more, iTunes U is a great place for those who love to learn. With the release of iTunes 9, Apple has put an even bigger spotlight on this great content by featuring it prominently inside the application.

When iTunes U first launched, many of the top universities, such as Stanford, Cambridge and Carnegie Mellon, jumped on board to provide engaging content. As the original institutions first began producing content for the free service, some implemented their content as podcasts that would download into the “Podcasts” section of iTunes whereas others would implement their content so it would download in the “Music” section. Furthermore, as more engaging content was added to the service, it became problematic to keep this content organized. Some universities would automatically create playlists for their content and others would just create multiple podcasts.

iTunes 9 attempts to solve this disarray by providing a specific iTunes U section inside the application and also a specific iTunes U tab for iPods and iPhones to sync the content. This allows users to specifically choose which content they wish to sync, by a particular topic from an iTunes U content provider, or a specific “episode” within that topic. The iTunes Store redesign itself also prominently features iTunes U content accessible via a button across the top navigation bar. Though this section of iTunes still physically resembles the iTunes Store pre-version 9, Apple is in the process of updating it to match the look and feel of the rest of the redesigned store.

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The 3.0 Software Update for the iPhone and iPod touch also brings about a specific section for iTunes U in the mobile iTunes store. Much like traditional podcasts, users can browse this section to view top downloaded content or content organized by category. Due to the flexibility that Apple gives institutions in organizing and presenting their content, navigating all of this directly from an iPod or iPhone can be a bit daunting though.

As mentioned earlier, iTunes U content is completely free and currently features over 200,000 educational audio and video titles available for download, even including content on how to get started creating your own iPhone applications. It’s a great resource to further your learning whether you’re at home or on the go.

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Max Kerning takes on Les in a game of Pong

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Apple repeats denial in Google Voice dispute

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 18 September 2009 11:35:00 AM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple has already issued a response to today's release of an uncensored Google submission to the...

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FCC rule may force carriers to allow 'all' mobile
apps

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 18 September 2009 11:10:00 AM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

The FCC is on the verge of introducing a new rule that would ban US cellular carriers from block...

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Windows 7 Takes Pricing Cue From Snow Leopard

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Windows 7 Snow Leopard is selling like hotcakes. It’s selling much better than Tiger, and a lot better than Leopard, too. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say those strong sales numbers had something to do with price. Microsoft appears to think so, too.

For a limited time, Microsoft is offering students the opportunity to grab one Windows 7 upgrade to either the Home Premium or Professional versions of the upcoming operating system for only $29.99, the same price that the single-user version of Snow Leopard retails for.

That’s $90 cheaper than the Home Premium upgrade costs at regular retail prices, and $170 off the price of the Professional version. There is a catch, though. You need to have a valid student email address from a U.S. educational institution (college or university) in order to qualify.

AppleInsider claims that there are similar deals in place in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea and Mexico, though I could only find a “Coming Soon” notice when I tried to change the country using a drop down menu at the top of the order page. Entering a valid Canadian university email address also got me nowhere.

Microsoft is very much aware that Apple’s student market share is one of the company’s most consistent strengths, despite recent incursions by low-cost netbook machines into that demographic. This deep discounting, and the accompanying 741.com micro-site on which it can be found show that Redmond is willing to go to great lengths to try to recapture some of the youth market.

If you’re planning on taking advantage of this deal using yours or a relative’s student email address to install Windows 7 on your Boot Camp partition, remember that the deal only applies to upgrades, not full versions, so you’ll already need either Vista or XP installed for it to work.

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Mathemagics for iPhone becomes a Staff Favorite
on the AppStore

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Blue Lightning Labs has announced that their popular iPhone application Mathemagics has been chosen as an Apple Staff Favorite on the AppStore. Mathemagics, an application for learning to mentally calculate math problems at phenomenal speeds, has garnered outstanding reviews and continues to amaze users. Aspiring Mathemagicians learn and then practice any of the 20 math tricks while progressively moving to higher levels of proficiency.

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Apple, eBay, other online vendors face encryption
lawsuit

Apple and eBay are among many online retailers named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, reports s...

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Sprint WiMax service to go live in Chicago on
Oct. 6

Sprint will sell its 4G WiMAX mobile broadband service to Chicago residents starting on October 6th,...

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Music taking on diminished importance at Apple

Apple is gradually de-emphasizing music in its business, a policy which could have much broader rami...

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