Year: 2010

Digital Heaven releases DH_Reincarnation 2.0 plug-in for Final Cut

Posted by | Dec 16, 2010 | , |

Digital Heaven has announced DH_Reincarnation 2.0 (http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_reincarnation), an upgrade to the plug-in for Final Cut that restores dead pixels on footage. This new version gives the choice of horizontal, vertical or horizontal & vertical interpolation modes and makes it possible to fix larger dead pixel areas.

The interpolation can be changed depending on the shot and there is even a mix control to blend between horizontal and vertical modes. A trial version of DH_Reincarnation is also available for the first time.

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Greg’s bite: More Patent Spats for Apple

Greg’s bite: More Patent Spats for Apple

Posted by | Dec 16, 2010 | , |

Nokia sues Apple, again. Nokia, still the largest cell phone company in the world by overall sales of ever sort of cell phone, has seen its market share begin to tank and has attacked Apple with a fresh barrage of patent suits. If you can’t beat them in the market place, perhaps you can beat them in court over touch screen smart phone technology.  

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DVDxDV 2.0 imports DVD video into iMovie 11

DVDxDV 2.0 imports DVD video into iMovie 11

Posted by | Dec 16, 2010 | , |

DVDxDV (http://www.dvdxdv.com/rip-dvd) has released DVDxDV 2.0 for the Mac. DVDxDV is software that rips unencrypted standard definition DVDs for importing into iMovie, iDVD, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer.

This new version features an iMovie 11 export preset for both widescreen and full screen projects. While most DVD converters produce low quality MP4 video, DVDxDV transfers the video to a new QuickTime movie that is identical to the original DVD.

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Maintain releases Cocktail 4.8 (Snow Leopard Edition)

Posted by | Dec 16, 2010 | , |

Maintain has released Cocktail 4.7.8 (Snow Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail (http://www.maintain.se/c) for users running Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”). The upgrade adds the ability to delete unnecessary localization (language resources) files and addresses an issue in which Cocktail may fail to update the locate database. This version also fixes minor compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.6.5.

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iOS dominates European mobile ad market

Posted by | Dec 16, 2010 | , |

Research from mobile ad network provider InMobi has found that iOS currently dominates the European mobile ad market with a 31.9% share, while Nokia’s share has slide to 19.7%, putting it in second place., reports “TechCrunch” (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/inmobi-iphone-os-dominates-european-mobile-ad-market-with-31-9-share/).

Android OS, meanwhile, is making its way after a slow start in these parts: the platform has gained +9.5 share points between July 2010 and October 2010, growing to a 12.9% share, the article adds.

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