Apple to Rock New Products September 9th

Via Gizmodo

Apple has scheduled a “special event” for September 9th at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The event is presumably to announce long awaited, much-rumored updates to the iPod product line and, who knows what else?

Written by Lonnie Lazar on September 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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QuickTime Panorama from the DNC in Denver

Photographer Pat St. Clair shot a super-cool QuickTime panoramic photo from last night’s historic session of the Democratic Party’s convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO.

Working on assignment for LightSpeed Media, St. Clair shot the DNC image using a new Canon XSi with a Sigma 8mm f3.5 circular fisheye lens. It was four shots around on a custom rig, with the camera set to ISO 1600 and aperture priority metering.

He shot RAW files, used Photoshop Camera Raw to render them to tiffs, stitched the panorama in PTGui Pro 7.8. and authored the final pan in Cubic Converter, all on a MacBook Pro.

Written by Lonnie Lazar on August 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Orb update media place-shifting with iPhone interface

Orb on the iPhone isn’t new, as such, but the media streaming company has a newly designed interface especially intended for the cellphone and its iPod Touch cousin.  That puts pay to our overriding criticism of the service from last time - that the desktop UI wasn’t as compatible with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser as would be nice - and now means that place-shifting music from your home PC to your iPhone via an MP4 stream is indecently simple.

Check out the video of the Orb iPhone interface in action, after the cut

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Written by Chris Davies on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Mobile Safari Download Plugin

iPhone hacker hachu developed a plugin for Mobile Safari recently that allows users to download any file off the internet. Once opening up the page, a button that says ‘Download’ will appear before Quicktime, or any other media has the chance to load. All downloads will be saved into /var/root/Downloads, allowing you to use the media online, or offline.

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Written by Ken Allen on December 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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Warner CEO Actually Compliments iTunes Store

I’ve been pretty hard on NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker lately for his dramatic unwillingness to pursue a digital media strategy makes any sense. As reader Imajoebob pointed out yesterday, not every big media CEO is so clueless. Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman, speaking that the Mobile Asia Congress, is a revelation. Consider the following:

“We used to fool ourselves,’ he said. “We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.”

Or this:

“For years now, Warner Music has been offering a choice to consumers at Apple’s iTunes store the option to purchase something more than just single tracks, which constitute the mainstay of that store’s sales,” he explained. “By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variation we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We’ve sold tons of them. And with Apple’s co-operation to make discovering, accessing and purchasing these products even more seamless and intuitive, we’ll be offering many, many more of these products going forward.”

Incredible. It’s not a Zucker world after all.

Via MacUser UK

Written by Petemortensen on November 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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