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Reporter’s Notebook: Notes from Macworld, day three

Posted by | Feb 13, 2010 | |

As I write this I’m getting ready to head to the airport to fly back to Nashville from San Francisco, where I’ve been covering Macworld. The weather in SF is sunny, which represents the overall feel of the show.

Today (Saturday) traffic is much lighter than in the past two days on the exhibitor show floor. However, there were still several visitors. And many more will likely drop by this afternoon, after I’ve departed.

A couple of final, random thoughts:

° There are iPhones everywhere in this city. Everywhere.

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‘Wired’ plans iPad content, says device is a ‘game changer’

Posted by | Feb 13, 2010 | , |

“Wired Magazine” Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference on Friday that the publication would be releasing its content for the iPad by summer.

“I’m from the media world, and as you may have heard, we have lots of questions about our future,” Anderson told the audience. “The good news is I think we found part of the answer…. We think this is a game changer.”

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Mixeister Express 7 compatible with Mac OS X

Mixeister Express 7 compatible with Mac OS X

Posted by | Feb 13, 2010 | |

MixMeister (http://www.mixmeister.com) has announced MixMeister Express 7, which is designed to allow aspiring and professional music producers, fitness instructors, dance choreographers or DJs to create professional-quality mixes. This is the first version that is compatible with Mac OS X and Windows.

MixMeister Express 7 lets you mix and transition between songs, creating custom music mixes. You can create full-length mixes for up to 80 minutes of seamless music. Users can record their mixes to CD and transfer them to their iPod and other portable devices .

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Sonny Software releases Mac-only Bookends 11

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Sonny Software has released Bookends 11, a Mac-only full-featured bibliography/reference and information management application for professionals and students.

Bookends 11 includes the following enhancements: tag clouds (visual depictions of terms and words in references); unlimited metatypes (combine information from two references in one
citation); an updated interface; enhanced notecard display; automatic smart quotes; and more flexible in-text citations.

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Transcriptize lets you take transcriptions from Adobe Production Bundle to Final Cut Pro, more

Posted by | Feb 13, 2010 | , |

Intelligent Assistance has introduced a new software tool that takes Transcription XML from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 or Soundbooth CS4 and converts it text, Excel Spreadsheet or Final Cut Pro clip markers.

According to Intelligent Assistance’ CEO Philip Hodgetts, the software imports the transcription XML from the Adobe Production Bundle and allows editors and producers to name the speakers — something not possible in the Production Bundle. From there users have the option to:

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