Steve Martins First Look at Final Cut Pro X

post from Daring Fireball on 21 June 2011 08:04:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

Comprehensive look at what it’s like to use the new Final Cut Pro X.

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Clayton Morriss Review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab
10.1

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Clayton Morris isn’t grading on a curve:

So should you buy this device? I can’t in good conscience tellyou to go out and spend $499 on this half-baked experience whenthe fully baked iPad experience can be had for just a fewdollars more.

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Nokia N9 Hands-on Demo

post from Daring Fireball on 21 June 2011 07:04:20 PM. © Daring Fireball

Another good demonstration of the button-less N9 UI.

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Nokia N9

post from Daring Fireball on 21 June 2011 07:04:20 PM. © Daring Fireball

Great-looking hardware and what appears to be a true, modern mobile touchscreen OS. Watch the “Swipe” video, it’s only two minutes long and it’s worth it. They’ve made a phone with zero buttons on the front face.

No ship date or pricing announced, although the NYT reports it “will sell unsubsidized for the equivalent of about $670 to $760 for 16 and 64 gigabyte models”. So here’s where Nokia stands. Four and a half years after Apple announced the iPhone, Nokia has now announced a worthy rival. And it’s based on the Meego OS that apparently is a dead-end, as the company prepares to focus on Windows Phone 7.

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FBI Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Including
Pinboard Offline

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Verne G. Kopytoff, reporting for the NYT:

The raid was on a hosting facility in the United States used byDigitalOne, a company based in Switzerland. It was not immediatelyclear what the F.B.I. was looking for.
In a note to one of its clients, a DigitalOne employee, SergejOstroumow, said: ?This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not ourcompany. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with equipmentplugged into them, possibly including your server — we can notcheck it.?
It continued: ?F.B.I. was interesting only in one of clients andit is absolutely unintelligible, why they took servers of tens ofclients. After FBI?s unprofessional ?work? we can notrestart our own servers, that?s why our website is offline andsupport doesn?t work. We are still in trying to solve thisproblem and all our colleagues are at work since 15 hours.?

Yikes. See also: Pinboard’s status page.

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iStopMotion Clicks Ahead to Version 2.8

post from prMac on 21 June 2011 05:44:00 PM. © prMac

Boinx Software rolls out iStopMotion 2.8, the latest upgrade to its popular stop motion animation software. Headlining the list of new features and improvements is iStopMotion's new ability to apply filters to imported images. Apply Tilt Shift and other filters to your previously recorded time-lapse sequences upon import to iStopMotion; Under-the-hood tune-ups enhance quality of your animations; Russian localization now available.

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An Infinite Amount of Care

post from Daring Fireball on 21 June 2011 05:03:57 PM. © Daring Fireball

Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 letter to projectionists showing Barry Lyndon. Nice use of Futura.

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You Can Help Mlkshk

post from Daring Fireball on 21 June 2011 05:03:57 PM. © Daring Fireball

Andre Torrez:

Get Things Done without wasting money. Work hard. Do it yourself.Do a good job and you?ll be rewarded (did I mention I also grewup Catholic? Hah!).
Because of this I didn?t want to take someone else?s money foran idea that could only happen if I took full responsibility.

Mlkshk is a great site, and I love the way Andre and his wife are determined to get it off the ground without borrowing a dollar. Count me in for a $24 paid account.

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Windows Phone 7 on the Carriers Pay-No-Mind List

Michael Gartenberg, on Twitter:

At VZW and ATT stores to compare plans, both steered me to iPhone and Android devices.

Followed by:

In both stores when asked about #WP7 was told “you don’t wantthat”. In one instance was “corrected” and told it was calledWindows Mobile.

Here’s a website — Windows Phone Tattletale — dedicated to documenting poor retail treatment of Windows Phone 7 devices. This sort of dismissive treatment can be devastating to a platform. This was the problem facing the Mac during the ?90s.

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http://twitter.com/Gartenberg/status/83180733417529344

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