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Apple releases Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4 on Mac App Store

by: admin - June 21st, 2011 Filed under: Apple, Reviews, Tech News Add Comment

Apple on Tuesday released Final Cut Pro X, which it touted a “revolutionary new version” of the video editing software, for $299.99 on the Mac App Store, along with Motion 5 and Compressor 4 for $49.99 each.

Final Cut Pro X (iTunes link) features a “Magnetic Timeline” that lets users edit on a flexible, trackless canvas. It also boasts “Content Auto-Analysis” that categorizes content upon import by shot type, media and people.

New background rendering also allows users to work without interruption. The software, available only on the Mac App Store in Mac OS X, is built on a modern 64-bit architecture.

“Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing. “We have shown it to many of the world’s best Pro editors, and their jaws have dropped.”

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Tags: Compressor 4, Final Cut, Motion 5, Video

Mac OS X Lion to Include Browser-Only Boot

by: admin - June 15th, 2011 Filed under: Apple, Tech News Add Comment

Here’s an interesting bit of news for the conspiratorially minded: Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, will allow you to boot directly to the Safari browser, bypassing the desktop and Finder entirely.

But before you go all Chrome OS all over yourself, however, thinking that Apple is about to mimic Google and turn Lion into a browser-based OS, note that this “Restart to Safari” option, as uncovered by a MacRumors tipster, is accessed not from the log-in screen, but from the lock screen – the password-protected access dialog that you can set in System Preferences > Security > General.

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Tags: Chrome, Google, Lion, Mac OS X, Safari

New Malware Variant Jukes Apple’s Bug Fix

by: admin - June 2nd, 2011 Filed under: Apple, Tech News Add Comment

As promised, Apple on Tuesday released a security update to combat MacDefender, a type of fake antivirus malware that had targeted the Mac OS X platform over the last few weeks. On Wednesday, however, hackers apparently managed to figure out an end-run around its solution.

Apple’s fix updates its malware definition list daily, and it searches for and removes known variants of the MacDefender malware.

However, a new variant that the security update can’t detect was released just hours after Apple issued its fix, according to security firm Intego.

Is Apple doing enough to protect users? Should it do more? Will it issue another security update?

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Tags: Apple, Intego, MacDefender, malware

Group Plans Apple Store Protests Over Tax Law

by: admin - May 29th, 2011 Filed under: Apple Add Comment

US Uncut, an organization that fights companies that try to avoid taxes, is planning to target Apple retail stores on June 4, protesting the company’s support of the Win America Campaign.

The group seeks to have Apple leave the WAC, which it claims is lobbying Congress for what would end up being a $4 billion tax cut for the company, as well as to cease other lobbying activities relating to “tax loopholes.”

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Unveiled: Audience Powers iPhone 4′s Impressive Noise Cancellation

by: admin - May 18th, 2011 Filed under: Apple, Tech News Add Comment

When we analyzed the Nexus One last January, the big news was its Audience voice processor. The Audience chip takes advantage of two microphones (if you’re counting, that’s one more than most cell phones) to cancel out ambient noise. This dramatically improves audio quality in noisy environments, and the Nexus One’s impressive microphone performance has been a major selling point.

Fast forward to last summer, when our iPhone 4 teardown revealed that the iPhone also had two microphones! At the time, we rather ambiguously reported that it was “used to cut out ambient noise and improve sound quality.” What we didn’t know was whether Apple had invented their voice processor or was licensing third-party technology.

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[Brilliant work from Audience and Apple. Keep it up folks.This is what I call true innovation. Modelling the auditory cortex is no easy task.]