Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Elmedia Player released for the Mac

Elmedia Player released for the Mac

Posted by | Jul 8, 2010 | , |

Eltima Software (http://www.eltima.com) has released Elmedia Player, a new media player for the Mac, which can play all most popular Flash and video formats and allows downloading online videos and their external resources directly to the hard drive.

The free version of Elmedia Player allows playing such formats as XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real Media), SWF, EXE and FLV (Flash), AVI, MOV, MPEG and more. It can play local movies and videos or online ones via a built-in web browser.

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Scene Store now available for My Living Desktop

Posted by | Jul 8, 2010 | , |

Amuse has launched its My Living Desktop Scene Store (http://www.mylivingdesktop.com) to compliment its My Living Desktop video desktop wallpaper application. The store provides users with a solution for browsing, purchasing, and automatically installing new My Living Desktop wallpaper video Scenes to their My Living Desktop application.

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Two analysts weigh in on iPad, Mac, iPhone, iPod sales

Two analysts weigh in on iPad, Mac, iPhone, iPod sales

Posted by | Jul 8, 2010 | , |

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi told clients in a note today that he expects Apple to sell 25 million iPads (or more) in fiscal 2011. Apple sold three million of the tablet devices in the first 80 days they were on sale.

“An analysis based on extrapolating sales trajectories of [the iPhone, iPod touch and all netbooks] suggests that Apple could sell a staggering 25 million iPads or more in FY 11,” Sacconaghi said. “We believe that current buyside expectations for FY 11 for the iPad are now at 20-25 million+ units, largely based on such an extrapolation.”

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‘MacNotables’ looks at the end of Kin, Kindle price cut, more

‘MacNotables’ looks at the end of Kin, Kindle price cut, more

Posted by | Jul 8, 2010 | |

The latest edition of “MacNotables” (http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress/), a podcast that serves as home to Mac personalities who will comment on the latest news and opinions in the Mac community, is available.

Dan Frakes of “Macworld” makes his return to “MacNotables” to talk about a wide variety of topics. He discusses the speed of Apple’s updating of their own software and apps for the iDevices, brings us up to date with some balanced perspective on the iPhone 4 reception issues and offers some work-arounds while Apple addresses the issue.

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Maintain releases Cocktail 4.7.6 (Snow Leopard Edition)

Posted by | Jul 8, 2010 | , |

Maintain has released Cocktail 4.7.6 (Snow Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail (http://www.maintain.se/c) for users running Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”). It adds the ability to clear Apple System logs and diagnostic messages.

It also adds ability to disable the “This file has been downloaded from the internet.” Finder warning and ability to view .asl and .crash logs. This version also fixes minor Mac OS X 10.6.4 compatibility issues and contains updated Automator actions.

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