Magic Media Marker – Organize your Media Files on the Fly
Developer Post Courtesy of: Kris Conrad of http://www.funk-isoft.com
My name is Kris, and I'm the mind behind Funk-iSoft and the Mac OS X App Magic Media Marker. Magic Media Marker is an app for automating the very receptive tasks of converting and tagging TV Shows & Movies. Sure, you've heard of apps that do this this already like iFlicks & iDentify, so what sets MMM apart from the other guys? Automation!
10 Ways iPhoto Helps Users Organize Photos
In addition to saving space, digital storage of pictures also allows for ease of sorting, labeling and organizing your photos. This is especially true for Mac users who have the iPhoto application. Your photos can be labeled in many different ways, depending on how you want to look for them.
1. Faces – Facial recognition is used in the system to identify all your photos of one person. This can be a great feature when searching for photos for an event like a graduation party.
Social Video: From the Founder of Shufflr
Developer Post Courtesy of: Rajnish R of Shufflr.tv.
I am the Founder of Shufflr.tv. Today approx 40 hours of video are uploaded per minute on Youtube alone. This creates a paradox of choice for a consumer. If you had only 15 mins of spare time in a day to watch video, which ones would you watch?
With our Shufflr app you spend more time watching videos you want than searching for them. We use Twitter chatter, FaceBook, social curation, and your social graph amongst others to find videos that interest you.
Apple Releases Universal iWork Applications for iOS
Apple has released their iWork collection of productivity application for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it available to all the iDevices.
“Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organize and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.”
Square Replacing the Register.
Square has made it possible for anyone, anywhere, anytime to accept credit and debit card payments. The next frontier for the new born company is replacing the cash register. Square has developed a new aspect to their app called “Square Register” for the iPad. Square states that the application will allow users to put their whole catalog of services and products on their iPad.
iCloud icon revealed
Apple has already started decorating the Moscone West convention center. Within the decor, Apple has advertise the orientation of the keynote and giving an idea of what the company will be talking about. One decoration that has made some noise on Twitter is the exposure of what seems to be the iCloud icon.The topic of discussion at the event will be obviously Mac OS X Lion, iCloud, and of course, iOS 5. To add, Steve Jobs has been confirmed to be delivering the WWDC ’11 keynote this year. This is a signal that the event will showcase something big, whether hardware or software. The event is set to take place on Monday, June 6.
Adobe Releases Companion Apps For PS
Adobe this week released the first three companion applications to their widely praised Photoshop application. The company showcased a demonstration of what was possible with the new Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit.
“Adobe Eazal ($4.99)
With Adobe Eazel, you can use your iPad and your fingertips to paint beautiful works of art. Paint across your entire iPad screen, and easily access the tools you need. Send your artwork directly to Photoshop CS5 from any locationall you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or do all your painting in the app, and share via email.
No iOS 5 for iPhone 3G(s)
The word is out. Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of the Russian mobile device blog Mobile-Review, tweeted that the next installment to the iOS linage, iOS 5, will not be compatible with the iPhone 3G. This would in turn mean that only the iPhone 4 and later reiterations of the iPhone will be the only phone devices from Apple compatible with iOS 5
“Just one comment. Apple iPhone 3G(s) wont be upgradable to iOS 5.x. iPhone 4 will.”
Steve Jobs and MobileMe
MacStories is chiming in today with an anecdote that steps into the mind of Apple’s head honcho Steve Jobs for a bit. The story was made first available as an in-app purchase through the Fortune magazine subscription on the iPad (later made available on the web on print copies).
The story shares some interesting information about Steve Jobs and the launching of the MobileMe web service. Specifically, the article shares the reaction Jobs had to the initial bogged networks and downtime of the service.
New MACDefender Malware
“When a user clicks on a link after performing a search on a search engine such as Google, this takes them to a web site whose page contains JavaScript that automatically downloads a file. In this case, the file downloaded is a compressed ZIP archive, which, if a specific option in a web browser is checked (Open “safe” files after downloading in Safari, for example), will open.”
