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Great news for Mac users today from Universal Audio—the company released a public beta of its Pro Tools AAX implementation.

UAD software v7.4.1 is a free public beta that gives Pro Tools 11 users:

• Total session and automation compatibility with earlier versions of Pro Tools
• Access to the complete library of UAD Powered Plug-Ins in AAX 64
• Seamless interoperability with Apollo series interfaces and Realtime UAD Processing
• Support for Pro Tools 11’s faster-than-realtime (offline) bounce feature

There’s also some new functionality including:

• AudioSuite processing for file-based workflows, which allows you to process files and selections with UAD plug-ins, commit the changes and free up DSP
• Multi-mono support, so you can use UAD plug-ins on surround and stereo tracks with full linking and unlinking capability

These videos are always amazing. It’s basically a short movie made out of clips from movies released in 2013. Nick Bosworth is an editing genius.

Is nothing sacred? I mean, really. Stay the fuck away from Santa you evil crazy company.

I’ve been testing Castro and I really like it. If I were going to recommend a podcast app, this would be it.

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Here’s video of a Christmas tree harvest using a helicopter at the Noble Mountain Tree Farm outside of Salem, OR. I had to check with a helicopter pilot friend of mine to make sure this wasn’t fake! Here’s another video showing the process from the pilot’s point of view. Amazing piloting skills.

Swedish Chef is my favorite.

Mashable:

Airports are perhaps the least jolly of locales during the holiday season, generally filled with disgruntled people facing delays, lost luggage and other mishaps. But, thanks to WestJet, one gaggle of weary travelers was treated to a Christmas miracle that turned an airport into Santa’s workshop.

Sniff. Excuse me, I have to go. I’ve got something in my eyes.

The Information published some information about what Scott Forstall has been up to—Business Insider relayed some of the news:

Amir Efrati at new technology site The Information is reporting that Forstall spent the year traveling to Italy and South Africa. He also advised a few startups, and became more philanthropically involved, focusing on education, poverty, and human rights.

What an incredibly inventive name for a company. They sell a product called Teüna, a chromatic tuner for iPhone and iPad.

So true, they need to be redesigned. Sometimes it’s difficult to even find my seat on the tickets. Throw in tickets for all sporting events and airline tickets and you’ve got something.

The uses could be almost limitless, but here are a few good ideas.

I linked to the “print” page because Citeworld split the article up into three pages.

Sharecare on Monday launched AskMD, an iPhone app designed to allow you to collect information about symptoms of your ailment, learn about the common causes and even connect you to local doctors to be treated. […]

Matthew Bischoff wrote a great article about why he chose to criticize his former employer, The New York Times, on their software strategy.

A guy’s phone catches fire and Samsung tries to silence him. Such assholes.

Good find from Cali Krueger.

Bored Panda:

Advertising doesn’t try very hard to conform to moral standards, but after looking back at some offensive, racist and sexist vintage ads – today’s ads are as good as gold.

I hate the vast majority of today’s advertising as much as the next person but ads like “Is It Always Illegal To Kill A Woman?” just make me shake my head in wonderment.

Hypervocal:

2012 was a tough year to top in the unintentionally amusing world of live local news. Between the lady who flashed her boobs at the vacuum cleaner man, Jay Z’s sister interrupting a live newscast and the weatherman aroused by “moisture from John,” you wouldn’t be wrong to think we’d peaked.

You would be wrong. Live local news brought the goods this year.

We all know that, for the most part, our local news sucks. I’ve watched it for years all over Canada and the US and generally, the quality is pretty awful But luckily, it delvers some gems like these.

Someone’s getting a punch in the face.

An interesting take on a tasks app with lots of filtering options.

I hit the Siri button by mistake last night and before she could react, I yelled at her. Monique asked me who I was yelling at and I said Siri—that’s why the name shows up twice. Siri’s pretty smart.

Last night I posted a link outlining my annoyance with being bothered by apps that prompt—some would say nag—users to “Rate the App.” I received quite a few tweets and emails from developers explaining why they do it. […]

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Yeah, I laughed.

Love it. I’m totally behind this.

The publisher of The Occasional by Funny or Die has decided that the iOS-only publishing model is a dead-end and they are moving the periodical to the web instead.

McLaren P1 vs. the Nürburgring-Nordschleife: V/O: “The world’s most challenging racetrack. 154 bends. 20.83 kilometres. Too dangerous for Formula 1. As Thomas von Hassel said on Twitter, “Oh good Lord – that noise.”

I am in no way a good photographer, but I found this story very interesting.

The Guardian:

“You’re having a dispute with your neighbour,” he hypothesised. “How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their back yard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?”

Mr Schmidt, do you actually know what Google Maps and Google Earth do?

And as Peter Cohen said on Twitter, “I think it’s hilarious that the guy whose company is making self-driving cars has a bug up his ass about drones.”

I find it amazing that they went with this logo and theme. Logo looks like something from a Bond film.