iLifeSoft upgraded Video Converter Mac to convert
Sony HDR Video on Mac

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iLifeSoft announces AVCWare Video Converter Standard for Mac software for Sony users, it can help you convert all Sony HDR Camcorders HD video files to avi, wmv, mov on Mac OS X for editing. AVCWare Video Converter Standard for Mac can help you convert your original Sony videos, not only .mpeg but also .mts/m2ts videos to other pop video formats such as mp4, wmv, mpg, mkv, mov, etc. Finishing your flexible conversion just in several mouse clicks and there is no need to worry any quality loss.

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In-App Ads Consume Mucho Battery Life

post from Daring Fireball on 19 March 2012 09:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jacob Aron, NewScientist:

Up to 75 per cent of the energy used by free versions of Androidapps is spent serving up ads or tracking and uploading user data:running just one app could drain your battery in around 90minutes.
Abhinav Pathak, a computer scientist at Purdue University,Indiana, and colleagues made the discovery after developingsoftware to analyse apps’ energy usage. When they looked atpopular apps such as Angry Birds, Free Chess and NYTimes theyfound that only 10 to 30 per cent of the energy was spent poweringthe app’s core function.
For example, in Angry Birds only 20 per cent is used to displayand run the game, while 45 per cent is spent finding and uploadingthe user’s location with GPS then downloading location-appropriateads over a 3G connection.

I’ll bet it’s true for ad-based iOS apps too. Another reason to pay for apps rather than settle for free ones.

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Apple Sold Over Three Million New iPads in First
Weekend

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How many other companies have even sold three million tablets, total?

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BugHub - GitHub issues for your iPad

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RCLConcepts is proud to announce the availability of BugHub, the first issue tracking app for your iPad. BugHub integrates with GitHub's issue tracker and provides a full featured experience. BugHub is a beautiful way to manage your projects issues on your iPad. BugHubs iPad tailored experience makes managing hundreds of issues a breeze. The features include, but are not limited to; managing multiple projects, adding and removing multiple labels on issues and setting milestones for issues.

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LightArrow Announces LifeTopix 4.1 With Toodledo
And Expense Tracking

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LightArrow, Inc. announces the latest version of LifeTopix with Toodledo integration and a new expense tracking feature. The advanced life information management app for iOS devices - is business-class software for every individual. The 4.1 release continues to demonstrate the company's mission to help users be more effective and more efficient. LifeTopix 4.1 combines an improved user interface and an integrated, all-in-one design to deliver out-of-the-box value for new and existing users.

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Rowdy Apps Launches its Dog Chase App for iPhone
and iPad

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Rowdy Apps announced the release of "Dog Chase" App for iPhone and iPad. It's the ultimate game of catch. Dog Chase is instantly playable and, while simple to control. It is challenging and not an easy game. Players simply tilt their iPhone or iPad device left or right to control the cute little doggies on their path through the park. The dogs must collect as many doggie biscuits, tennis balls and other doggie treats as they can.

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Hands on: Retina-optimized iWork apps

post from Apple on 19 March 2012 05:04:30 PM. © Apple

Originally, I had hoped this piece would be a round-up of Retina-enabled productivity apps on Apple’s latest iPad, but the unpredictable nature of App Store updates, plus no responses to some feelers sent out over the weekend, have forced me to focus on Apple’s offerings. This is not a bad thing, since the lead time the iWork team had with the new SDK hopefully allowed them time to create a refined launch product.

So here are my impressions of how Apple’s own productivity apps, which have been optimized for the new iPad’s high-resolution display, fare on the new tablet:

Keynote

Even if Keynote is your least-used app of the iWork suite, if you give just a trivial amount of presentations it is easily the suite’s killer app for you. The ease of hooking your iPad up to a projector and pretty much eliminating the not-so-silent prayers that go along with marrying projectors and presentations is a gigantic stress reliever. When I started looking at the new Keynote app and opened up a few of my presentations I was overjoyed with how great even graphics not optimized for the Retina display look and how crisp and un-pixelated the text looked. Then I crashed back to earth when I realized unless I was hooking into a truly fantastic display — which most conference rooms don’t have — there would be little to no difference in what the audience would see since the iPad screen is a higher resolution than the display.

Where I did find handy was how graphics looked on the Retina display. Looking through a draft of an old presentation, I could see where I had cheated and downloaded a Creative Commons graphic file that wasn’t a good resolution. On the original iPad and my MacBook, I could fool myself into thinking it wasn’t that bad. On the new iPad, I could see that, yeah, it really did look that bad.

What I haven’t been able to benchmark efficiently is how well the beefed-up GPU and 1 GB of memory will aid the creation of graphics-heavy presentations. My limited, non-scientific tests didn’t yield a marked difference on a 30-slide presentation where most if it was full-bleed graphics. However, a 30-slide talk is pretty small. If someone creates large, graphics-heavy presentations regularly, I’d love to hear from you.

Numbers

If Keynote is in the running for the least-used app of the suite, Numbers is likely the winner of the never-used award. People who are spreadsheet users probably aren’t using Numbers. Still, Numbers, in a way, I think benefits the most from the new display. It’s been my experience that spreadsheets often try to cram too much text into one page, making it impossible to read. On the new iPad, text set to the smallest size was perfectly readable, while on the original iPad it was a blur.

Pages

During testing, when I opened a file with Pages on my old iPad, I realized just how much I’d been suffering for my art. My first reaction: I used to work on this thing? Opening a document with 10-point type was an awakening. Sure, I was amazed at how great my e-mail looked, but when I opened a document with a couple thousand words I’d typed on my old iPad, the, dare I say it, awesomeness of the Retina display hit home. Even now, looking at my MacBook Pro, my iPad is going: Look at me. Now look at your MacBook, Now look at me. That display looks like the bad end of the horse, doesn’t it?

How the apps affect my workflow

What I love about writing these articles is it forces me to take an inventory of my current writing process and tools. The new iPad with an external display is looking like a more visually comfortable writing environment than my MacBook Pro. The key tool for me is iCloud, so my main writing tool is Byword for iOS (which also looks awesome on the new iPad) and OS X because it looks great and syncs between all three of my devices. Pages is well-poised to take the top spot for writing apps this summer when the OS X version of iWork becomes fully iCloud-aware.

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Apple: 3 million iPads sold this weekend

After Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted Monday morning about a “record weekend” for sales of the new iPad, Apple this afternoon is confirming just how good of a weekend it was. Since the first iPads went on sale Friday morning, 3 million tablets have been sold, according to Apple.

That’s the same number of iPads Apple sold in the first 80 days after the original iPad went on sale in 2010. So it’s no surprise that in a press release Monday Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller called this weekend’s launch “the strongest iPad launch yet.” It should be noted that we don’t know how much better this iPad launch was compared to the first weekend sales of iPad 2, though — Apple didn’t release those numbers last year.

Through the end of December 2011, Apple had sold 55 million of its touchscreen tablets.

Earlier Monday AT&T said it set “a new single-day record for both iPad sales and activations on Friday.” Verizon, Apple’s other official 4G carrier for the new iPad in the U.S., said that it was “quite pleased” with weekend sales of the device, which it described as “brisk.”

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iPad Sales

AT&T press release:

On Friday, March 16, AT&T set a new single-day record for its iPadsales and activations, demonstrating robust demand for the newiPad on the nation’s largest 4G network, covering nearly 250million people.

That’s just AT&T — and Verizon has the bigger LTE network. Tim Cook, during this morning’s analyst conference call, said Apple itself had “a record weekend”.

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