| Soundtrack 1.0
Apple's Soundtrack made its debut last June, as part of the massive video-editing bundle Final Cut Pro 4. But now the same Soundtrack software is available as a stand-alone product. This puts Soundtrack within reach of video editors, Web designers, and content providers who don't need the rest of the Final Cut Pro 4 package. Soundtrack 1.0.1 is a fun program based on sound loops. It lets you quickly create original, royalty-free music for video and multimedia projects. It requires at least a 500MHz Power Mac, Mac OS X 10.2.5, and 5GB of available hard-drive space. Apple's official specs say that you can install the program with a CD and that the sound loops, called Apple Loops, on the included DVD are optional, but this isn't really the case. Soundtrack's entire appeal lies in the fact that it lets you mix and match the 4GB of material it provides.
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0c build 136
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software makes video editing easy and fun. Best of all, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software is a real-time nondestructive video editor. No matter what changes you make to your video and photos in the software, your original files are never affected. Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun with video editing, without worrying about making a mistake. All Vegas Movie Studio+DVD editions include easy drag-and-drop video editing, integrated DVD layout and burning, and Show Me How interactive tutorials. In addition, Platinum Edition provides added features, advanced editing tools, and other bonus materials to speed you through even the most complex of movie projects from fullscreen DV to widescreen HDV. Version 8 adds support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files, editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders, opening and rendering ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless files, and improved playback and performance.
Feeder RSS Editor for Mac OS X Updated To v.5
Reinvented Software has updated Feeder, an RSS editor for creating news feeds, podcasts and appcasts. Version 1.5 includes: an updated user interface for Mac OS X Leopard support for thumbnails for video podcasts with the Media RSS extension password-less SFTP improvements for tagging MP4 video files, item editing and Sparkle appcasts. For podcasters, Feeder includes full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions, drag and drop episode creation, an iTunes Store preview and the ability to tag all popular podcast media files. Feeder can publish feeds and associated files via FTP, SFTP, .Mac and file export. Update Details: In Feeder 1.5, video podcasting support is improved with thumbnails using the Media RSS extension. This version also improves performance when tagging MP4 format files, including those used for iPod, iPhone and Apple TV and has the ability to redirect uploaded enclosure files through sites such as blubrry.com for tracking podcast statistics.
A blog about technology from BBC News
Right or wrong? And Mr Jobs is much higher in the list than his Apple partner Steve Wozniak, the engineering brains behind the first Apple computers. Tim Berners-Lee is top of the pile – but was this more a reflection of a British voting panel? Certainly, he was the favoured candidate among dot.life readers when I first blogged about the poll. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is out. So what? Well, he made the long list. There's no Clive Sinclair, the British home computer pioneer. George Boole, the father of modern computer arithmetic, is in. How many people would have thought of him immediately? The inventor of the transistor, William Shockley, is at number 9 while Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit is at number 5.
Mother Earth Mother Board
The financial districts of New York, London, and Tokyo, linked by thousands of wires, are much closer to each other than, say, the Bronx is to Manhattan. Today this is all quite familiar, but in the 19th century, when the first feeble bits struggled down the first undersea cable joining the Old World to the New, it must have made people's hair stand up on end in more than just the purely electrical sense - it must have seemed supernatural. Perhaps this sort of feeling explains why when Samuel Morse stretched a wire between Washington and Baltimore in 1844, the first message he sent with his code was "What hath God wrought!" - almost as if he needed to reassure himself and others that God, and not the Devil, was behind it. During the decades after Morse's "What hath God wrought!" a plethora of different codes, signalling techniques, and sending and receiving machines were patented.
Audi considers opening a factory in the United States.
Separately, the BMW chief executive, Norbert Reithofer, said at the Geneva Auto Show that the company's currency hedging strategy was also under scrutiny. "We will address the topic of currency hedging very clearly at the annual news conference" on March 18, he said. The focus for many automakers is now on an increase in sales during the second half of the year. Bob Lutz, the vice chairman of General Motors, said Tuesday that he expected an economic recovery in the second half of the year, after describing February U.S. sales as "very disappointing" for the industry. But "our crystal ball is not that much better than anybody else's," he said. Toyota also expects a recovery in the second half for auto sales in North America, even though tighter credit conditions have injected a note of uncertainty.
Interview : Ajay Devgan: I don't belong to any camp
Known as a versatile actor Ajay Devgan is spinning out one hit comedy film after another and the recent one was Rohit Shetty's SUNDAY. Normally, Ajay is accused of avoiding the media, but we managed to have a discussion on whole lot of things. He was candid as well as casual during the conversation. Here are the excerpts.
After having done the role of an honest police officer in GANGAAJAL Any special reason for accepting the role of corrupt cop in SUNDAY?
Actually, I was charmed by the story of the film. Can you imagine what will happen if Sunday' disappears from one's life? The story of this film is its specialty and here we don't have to make faces to make the audience laugh. I think that if one's intentions are right, everything is possible. And this is what I have done.
Is Homeland Security Too Focused on “Guns, Guards and Gates”?
September 11th was a brutal reminder that there are people out there who have the desire and means to kill us in a mass attack, and we have to stop them. "The best defense is a good offense", we like to say, but in this case it's a little trickier than that. We need an offense mindful of long-term gains and a defense more nuanced than smash-mouth football. "Guns, guards and gates," our bulwark against external threats, remains an essential part of our defense. Yet consider this: attacks attempted or carried out in the UK involved insiders, young Brits willing to kill their fellow citizens. It's hard to employ a simplistic "us vs. them" strategy, when "they" are living and working alongside us. To better understand this quandry, I recently caught up with Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a former adviser with the National Commission on Terrorism.
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