A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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iMovie HD 6 VQS Free Chapter
One of the aspects of the new book I’m most excited about is that it’s full color. Although the previous black-and-white editions still conveyed the same information, having color photos and screenshots really makes the examples pop, and enabled me to show things like color temperature without pointing readers to the Web site for examples. ...
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Apple iBook/PowerBook Battery Recall
Apple instituted a voluntary battery recall today for Sony-manufactured batteries sold between 2003 and 2006 for the 12-inch iBook, 12-inch PowerBook G4, and 15-inch PowerBook G4. The company’s servers are being hit hard (it’s getting wide press coverage), but in writing it up for TidBITS, I noticed that there are three different sets of serial ...
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Broke. The. Law.
President Bush today vowed that he would overturn yesterday’s ruling that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is, in fact, illegal. The best part of the ruling is this: We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in ...
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Book Review: Ken Stone’s FCP Site
Steve Douglas reviews iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6: Visual QuickStart Guide, and says some very nice things: Jeff Carlson has written and published a superb book designed to get the editor in either of these applications up and running in very little time and as painlessly as possible. The writing is clear and easy ...
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iLife ’06 Performance on New Mac Pro
Anandtech has an in-depth look at the new Intel-based Mac Pro, including performance results from iLife ’06 applications. Things are obviously speedier, but especially with iDVD 6, where even on fast machines video encoding seems eternal (or maybe I just burn too many projects on deadline). (Link via Camcorderinfo.)
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Good Espresso on the Eastside?
When I lived in Redmond (yes, that one), I had to drive across the 520 bridge to Seattle to get good coffee. Granted, I was an espresso newbie who only drank mochas, but at the time the only options were a smattering of Starbucks and the espresso carts in the mall. Although I now live ...
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Preserving Home Movies
The Preservation Project blog is documenting Ashley Maynor’s efforts to digitize and preserve a stack of 79 home movies that her family owns. Though the old labels gave me a rough idea of what was on each reel, I was hesitant to put the films through a projector to see what material was actually there. ...
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More Info on Datestamps in Time-Lapse Movies
Rob Griffiths follows up an earlier post with more details on getting iMovie HD 6 to embed date/time information in a time-lapse movie. Turns out that you need to tweak a preference using Terminal. Bingo! This hidden feature will let you put time and date stamps on iMovie time lapse projects created with DV cameras. ...
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Mac Pro Announced
I think Apple’s new Mac Pro desktops should just maybe squeak by as iMovie/iDVD/video editing machines… barely. Oh come on, these are exactly the machines that people have been waiting for. Although it’s unlikely that someone would buy a Mac Pro just for editing in iMovie, they’re more than capable. Here’s what I wrote in ...
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All about Repairing Permissions
Dan Frakes at Macworld does some heavy lifting this week with “Repairing Permissions: What you need to know.” Required reading: The procedure has taken its (rightful) place in the Pantheon of Overused Procedures, next to “zapping the PRAM,” “rebuilding the Desktop,” and “performing a clean install,” with some users acting as if it’s a cure-all ...
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