Posted on January 31st, 2010 by admin
Easily the best multi-codec video player for Mac OS X Snow Leopard gets a boost even as pleas for fairer platform developers to keep the application going fall on deaf ears.
VideoLan.org has announced the release of VLC Player 1.0.5 (release notes), the highly portable multimedia player for most audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2010 by admin
Patrick Tehan/Mercury News
Douglas Englebart is the real deal. He and his team at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California pioneered, prototyped and demonstrated the computer mouse and fundamental concepts of the internet, including email, hypertext links and video conferencing back in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Posted on January 30th, 2010 by admin
One of the big surprises about the Mac platform since Apple made the switch to Intel x86 processors is that fact that there hasn’t been either a mass exodus or influx of new gaming titles. Things largely stayed the same, which isn’t particularly good.
This state of affairs is changing for the better with the news [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by admin
The video and audio performances of George Clooney’s Hope for Haiti telethon have set numerous records, including being the first digital-only album to land at number on the Billboard 200, as well as set some iTunes records for good measure.
The Associated Press (AZCentral) reports that worldwide iTunes sales of the Hope for Haiti Now topped [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by admin
Here’s a very odd little clip and I’m really not at all sure what to make of it. Given the leeway to hazard a guess, I’d say that Steve’s moving really slow (i.e. he’s tired and his retinue is matching the pace), when the vultures swoop in — something new to Apple events.
That Steve didn’t [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by admin
Well, if I could have ordered the iPad by now I would have, as well as most of the accessories. And, that brings up an important, how much do the add-ons introduced by Steve Jobs yesterday cost?
Being a budget minded Mac maven, I’m probably gonna go for the 16GB iPad (wi-fi only), but I’m definitely [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by admin
Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil the revolutionary new iPad. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.”
Apple has published a link to the cached stream of Steve Jobs iPad keynote. Of course, there’s also the higher quality and more convenient podcast version.
I’ve watched it twice already…
Recent happy Apple posts:
— Former Apple [...]
Filed under: Apple Evangelizing, Corporate news, Movies, TV, video, iPhone, iPod, ipad | 7 Comments »
