Year: 2010

Apple wins patents for MacBook, iPod touch, Expose, more

Several Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office, including design wins for the MacBook, iPod touch and Mac OS X’s Expose feature. Here’s a summary of each.

Patent number D617,807 is for a graphical user interface for a display screen or a portion thereof (the iPhone touch). The inventors are Greg Christie, Elizabeth Caroline Furches and Bas Oring.

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iPhone 4 available for pre-order

The black iPhone 4 is available to pre-order today with free shipping or in-store pickup on Thursday, June 24. However, the white iPhone 4, however, is “currently unavailable for pre-order or in-store pickup.”

The 8GB iPhone 3GS, which will replace the iPhone 3G at the lower $99 price point, is also available to pre-order today with free shipping or in-store pickup. Some new iPhone 4 gear apparently won’t be ship by June 24. For example, the new $29 dock for the iPhone 4 won’t ship until July 2.

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Daniusoft releases Video Converter Pro for the Mac

Daniusoft (http://www.daniusoft.com) has released a professional version of Video Converter, available for Mac and Windows. It lets convert between popular video and audio formats (HD video also included) and rip DVD to video and audio in any popular formats.

A variety of multimedia devices are supported, including the iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, Android phone, BlackBerry etc. What’s more, it lets you trim clips, crop frame size, add effects and watermark and adjust the output parameters.

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