Mobile Roadie has a very neat way of creating iPhone apps, mostly aimed at the music market. It’s very, very neat. Rather than me rabbiting on about it, have a look at the video here.
So, this week’s been a pretty bad one for Apple then. The three most important things to Apple over the past number of years have been the Mac user experience (ie OS X and the Mac computer), the iPhone, and of course, the iPod & iTunes. Every single one of these came under serious attack this week from either Microsoft or Google.
Apple put an instant hole in the pocket of people like me everywhere today, by releasing updates to their two premium software products for media professionals, Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio.
Logic Studio adds features like “flex time”; a much needed upgrade to its time manipulation abilities on the timeline, and better workflow tools to allow easier exporting and importing of settings and tracks between projects. Also (more…)
RTE have released a beta version of their RTE Player, a catch-up web TV service. And it works! Even on a Mac!
Programmes will be available for 21 days after broadcast on the system, so you can “see what you’re missing”, as the blurb goes.
Of course, you probably won’t be watching some of RTE’s bought in programmes, for copyright reasons, and it sounds like, thanks to cutbacks at the national broadcaster, there’ll be a lot more bought in programmes, and a lot less indigenous material.
Still, this is a great development, and it should catch on, much like BBC’s iPlayer, which sadly, is not available here, again, for copyright reasons.
Check it out at http://www.rte.ie/player/
Eircom has hired Richard Griffiths, former director of technology strategy for BT Vision to roll out digital TV services across Ireland next year. Their plan is to bring some sort of video-on-demand & internet (more…)
Apple has released its new range of laptops, and they look great. The black keyboard, reminiscent of the Air, and the black surround of the screen, echoing a motif started with the latest iMacs, really makes the new machines look classy. Particularly improved is the (more…)
If the me from 10 years ago could hear the me now, he’d be laughing incredulously. “So, you’ve got an 80 gig hard drive in your laptop, and you’re telling me you don’t have enough space! WTF?” (Did they have WTF back in 1997?)
Yes, indeed, Apple have users of their notebooks in a bit of a constant quandary; (more…)
It’s worth mentioning that yesterday, Joost, the streaming TV system, was made available for everybody. So far, the content on it is so-so, but this is the way the future of TV will look. No doubt about it. Check it out at http://www.joost.com.
One of the things about it that is very interesting is that its streaming nature means that advertising works again! Yay! Boo! (more…)
iPhone mania has gripped the US. And not without reason. Okay, so there’s no 3G, and okay, the hard drive’s miniscule, and yeah, who knows if it’ll last a week before the battery starts going flat mid-call, and you can’t use Skype, and it’s got no bluetooth sync with your Mac (and the list goes on…), but there’s a reason people feel it’s a must-have item. (more…)
