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Plastic over Bits
I’ve fallen hard for the instant-gratification of buying music from the iTunes Music Store. A few days ago I noticed that José González was in the catalog; his song “Heartbeats” is featured in the Sony Bravia commercial that I blogged about in October on my iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide blog. I decided to buy the ...
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From Extreme to Extreme II
In January, I went from hectic insanity at Macworld Expo to the absolute calm of recuperating at my mom’s farm near Dixon, CA, anticipating a busy winter. I didn’t know at the time that my work schedule would be turned upside down. One thing I’ve learned as a freelance book author is that you can’t ...
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A New Boom in User-Created Content
The New York Times has an article today about how many sites are turning to user-generated content (specifically video, but also some general information) and offering cash rewards: Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous. Yahoo recently scaled back plans to create original programming in favor of putting up free user-created stuff. As you might ...
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iMovie Speed on MacBook Pro
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been using a MacBook Pro on loan from Apple. My review of it appears in today’s Seattle Times: Mac’s first Intel-driven laptop: A taste of speed. Using the MacBook Pro normally doesn’t feel all that speedy; things feel a bit more peppy, but nothing mind-blowing. However, I did a few ...
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MacBook Pro and HDV Capture
In a bit of excellent timing, I currently have a MacBook Pro and a Sony HDR-HC1 HDV camcorder for a couple of weeks (alas, I don’t get to keep either of them). I’m going to be doing some testing and shooting HD footage for the next revision of the iMovie HD/iDVD Visual QuickStart Guide, so ...
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Apple iMovie Plug-In Missing on Intel Macs?
I’m testing a new MacBook Pro and ran into an odd dialog in iMovie after clicking the Media pane: “The plugin ‘Twirl.bundle’ cannot be loaded, because it isn’t designed to run on this computer.” My first suspicion was that some non-Intel-friendly code was moved over from my PowerBook G4 when I used the Migration Assistant, ...
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My iMovie HD 6.0.1 Add-On Review
Macworld asked me to write up what’s changed in iMovie HD 6.0.1, which was published earlier this week: Review: iMovie HD 6.0.1. Basically, Apple fixed some of the annoying bugs and also addressed the problem I encountered with locked audio not staying locked. I also learned, but didn’t have room in the article to include, ...
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Hands-On HDV
Studio Monthly has a great collection of real-world tips for shooting in HDV: <a title=" Studio Monthly | Hands-On HD: Getting the Most Out of High Def” href=”http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/tutorials/trainup/6147.html”>Hands-On HD: Getting the Most Out of High Def. (Via FreshHDV.) Okay, you’ve got the gear. (Or at least your favorite dealer lets you play with his stock.) ...
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How Caffeine Works
Here’s a 1 minute video on how caffeine works: How Caffeine Works – Google Video. Cool!
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Bah Hummer
A number of indie bands are turning down money from Hummer, which wants to license their songs in commercials: Bah Hummer. “My standard line is you guys will play a hundred million gigs before you see this amount of money,” Hysen said. “Usually they come back with, ‘We’ll do anything BUT Hummer.'” Right on. Though ...
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