Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named to the “2010 TIME 100” (http://www.time.com/time/specials/bestworst/0,32232,1984685_1984745_1985499,00.html), TIME Magazine’s list of “the people who most affect our world.” It’s his fifth appearance on the list.
Read MoreOkay, I’m still hacked off that Apple is only allowing iPhone and iPad apps in the 2010 Apple Design Awards (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/). Various stories have already been written about this (links at the bottom). Now it’s time for a call to action.
The ADAs are designed to recognize apps that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption and more. So why has Apple decided to eliminate Mac products from the annual awards? If the company wants to spotlight the iPhone OS (and, for better or worse, it does) then why not have iPhone OS and Mac OS categories?
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An Apple patent (number 20100103172) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office for a system and method for rendering ambient light affected appearing imagery based on sensed ambient lighting. In other words, Apple wants its devices to be more “aware” of the lighting conditions around them.
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EastWest/Quantum Leap is shipping its Hollywood Strings (http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-strings) virtual (software) instrument. It’s a collection of orchestral string instruments with multiple finger positions for all sections, including open strings.
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Intelligent Assistance has released Matchback Magic (http://assistedediting.com/MatchbackMagic/), software that adds matchback information to Final Cut Pro media files to make them very robust through many postproduction workflows, according to Intelligent Assistance CEO Philip Hodgetts.
“With Matchback Magic it doesn’t matter if an editor or assistant renames clips or file names, or even if they lose reel name or Timecode reference,” he says. “The conform to master media will still happen correctly.”
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