The AppStorm Freelance Mac App Bundle

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 11:04:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

My thanks to the AppStorm Freelance Mac App Bundle for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. They’ve got a fantastic deal: $330 worth of apps and resources, including Billings, WriteRoom, TextExpander, 1Password, LittleSnapper, Arq, Radium, and Alarms. In addition to those great apps, you get the Rockstar Freelancer e-book, a commercial WordPress theme, and a web-based client management app.

It’s a great price for some great apps. Act quickly: the bundle is only available for another four days.

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http://codecanyon.net/bundles/freelance_mac_apps/?WT.mc_id=appbundlefireball

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Express First, Pro Later

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 10:03:57 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ken Segall:

Imagine if they had unveiled FCPX as the new Final Cut Expressinstead. Buyers of that product would have been absolutelydelighted by the many leaps forward in power and simplicity, andthe missing features would have been insignificant to them. A newFinal Cut Express would also have given pro editors a tantalizingpreview of a new FCPX to come.

Sure seems like this is exactly what Apple should have done.

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http://kensegall.com/blog/2011/06/final-cut-pro-x-the-natives-get-restless/

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Chicken Control Free HD, Chicken Herding Comes to
the App Store

post from prMac on 24 June 2011 10:02:00 PM. © prMac

Matthew Norris Distribution has announced the release of Chicken Control Free HD 1.0. Chicken Control Free HD is a fun game where players herd chickens to their nest. Drawing a line from in front of the chicken will guide them to the nest. As you herd more and more chickens to the nest you will acquire ribbons to show your chicken herding prowess. Improvements in this release include; higher quality graphics, new awards, pause/play control and updated fonts.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-27193.htm

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Jalkut Sums It Up

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 08:03:58 PM. © Daring Fireball

Daniel Jalkut, on Twitter:

Final Cut Pro X review: Apple will happily piss off 5,000professionals to please 5,000,000 amateurs.

The obvious response to this would be to ask why not please both groups? The answer to that is focus. Perhaps Apple is too focused here. Maybe they should have waited longer to release version X, to include more of the features from 7. Maybe they should have added X as a new product — a mid-level prosumer tier, replacing Final Cut Express but not Final Cut Pro. But Apple errs on the side of too much focus.

Steve Jobs, back in 1997: “Focus is about saying no.”

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https://twitter.com/danielpunkass/status/84362588393181184

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Conan OBrien on Final Cut Pro X

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 08:03:58 PM. © Daring Fireball

Not sure it’s ever good to be a late night punchline, but, on the other hand, what other company today could make video editing software a late night punchline?

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DDD Special Captivates Gamers into Deep Addiction

post from prMac on 24 June 2011 07:05:00 PM. © prMac

Digital Coolio has released DDD Special 1.0 for iOS. DDD Special is a casual dungeon crawl with style. In this highly addictive game, you will control a funky warrior of your choice as they navigate a funky, DDD Special. You will step into a randomly generated dungeon, filled with monsters and gold. Sharpen your skills and soon you will learn to fight with expert timing. The gameplay in DDD Special is so addictive that you will find yourself never wanting to stop.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-27186.htm

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Pogue, Point-by-Point, on the Concerns of
Professional Video Editors Regarding Final Cut Pro X

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 07:04:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

David Pogue:

I wrote my review from the perspective of an advanced amateur;I?m not a professional editor. […] But in this post, I?mgoing to address the concerns of professional video editors, oneby one. The information here comes from consultation with FinalCut Pro X’s product managers at Apple.
The ?missing features? generally fall into three categories:features that are actually there and have just been moved around,features that Apple intends to restore and features that require athird-party (non-Apple) add-on or plug-in.

The closest we’ve gotten, thus far, to a response from Apple.

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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/professional-video-editors-weigh-in-on-
final-cut-pro-x/

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On the Other Side: Serenity Caldwell

post from Daring Fireball on 24 June 2011 07:04:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

Serenity Caldwell:

Some people will read the above story and insist that yes, justlike iMovie, Final Cut is getting dumbed down, and that Appledoesn?t want to service professional users anymore. Ifyou?re reading it like that, however, I don?t think you?rereading at all.

But, for now at least, Apple is clearly willing to forgo high-end professional users. Or maybe Apple is counting on those users sticking with Final Cut Pro 7 until X grows to meet their needs?

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http://www.macworld.com/article/160680/2011/06/apple_recut_final_cut_pro_x.html#l
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Jeffery Harrell on Whats Wrong With Final Cut Pro
X

Jeffery Harrell:

This isn?t just a bunch of entitled, stubborn editors whining toeach other. Well, I mean, it is, and I?m one of them. Butaside from that, there?s also some really serious stuff goingon. It?s not ?I don?t like it,? or ?I don?t preferit? or even ?I choose not to make the change because it?stoo burdensome for too little benefit.? It?s ?Because of thechoices you guys made, we literally can?t use your product anymore.?

Backed up with solid use-cases where Final Cut Pro X fails for pros, including the problems posed by the way Final Cut Pro X shows all of your media, for all projects, all the time. I love the perspective on this piece. It conveys the point of view of a professional editor.

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http://jefferyharrell.tumblr.com/post/6830049685/what-went-wrong-with-final-cut-p
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Dropbox Breach: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected,
but One Person Actively Exploited Security Hole

Jason Kincaid, for AOL/TechCrunch:

First, the good news: the scale of the attack affected ?fewerthan a hundred accounts? out of Dropbox?s 25 million totalusers. But according to the letter, those accounts were allaccessed by a single individual. In other words, these weren?taccidental logins due to typos ? someone discovered the hole andactively used it to access files that were not theirs. That?sobviously very alarming.

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/dropbox-breach-fewer-than-100-accounts-affected-
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