If you are a hard core Mac OS X user, chances are you have heard of Quicksilver. Quicksilver is really hard to categorize as far as what kind of application it is, but if it is anything, it’s a glorified application launcher. Its faster then Spotlight in many cases when it comes to searching for an application that you want to launch. Quicksilver, with the use of plug-ins, can also open up folders, search the web, archive files, etc. Quicksilver can practically do anything and its designed so that your hands never have to leave the keyboard.
May 17
Elgato Systems Releases Turbo.264
Apple, Hardware, Movies, Software, Technology
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Elgato Systems has recently released Turbo.264, its h.264 hardware video encoder accessory for Mac computers. Some may be asking why should I buy a video encoder when my Mac can already encode videos with h.264? Well, whenever you use Quicktime, for example, to encode a video, it is using the Quicktime software and your processor to render out and encode the video. When videos are being encoded it pretty much uses 100% of your processors power, leaving you with next to no room to do anything else(browse the internet, listen to music, etc).
May 08
MacBook Pro’s Getting LED
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Well, it has been confirmed by Apple that sometime this year that they are going to be switching out the old laptop displays with LED back lighting. What does this mean exactly? Many things. Back lit LED displays consume far less power so your battery will last longer. They are also much brighter and have more vivid colors, while still using less power overall. So thats something to look forward to when the MacBook Pro series laptops are updated.
Apr 17
Adobe CS3 is now shipping
Adobe, Software, Technology
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Adobe has announced that Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design and Web editions have started to ship out.
Adobe’s Creative Suite Production and Master Collection are not yet shipping as they await final releases of Adobe After Effects CS3 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Both After Effects and Premiere Pro were released as public betas today from Adobe Labs website and can be downloaded now.
Apr 13
Mac OS X Leopard Delayed
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Apple has today announced that the release of MacOS X 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until October due to the development of iPhone.
iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS® X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
