The Thunderbolt Option Card for the Apollo audio interface provides greater UAD plug-in instances, improved performance at higher sample rates, and reduced UAD plug-in latency versus Apollo’s standard FireWire connection.
A great option for those that picked up an Apollo interface.
Now you can easily remove image imperfections or just about any image element you want, so your pictures look their absolute best.
That’s what I love about the Pixelmator guys. They keep making amazing software with features that everyone can use, not just the pros. Check out the video on their site to see the healing tool in action.
Not only is Pixelmator 2.1.1 out today, but they are also sponsoring The Loop this week.
A trivial question posted on Samsung Mobile’s official Facebook page has produced a ton of unexpected answers favoring Apple’s new iPhone 5.
“It doesn’t take a genius.”
So, let me get this straight. Android is open and freely available until it’s not… and the Open Handset Alliance is even more open, unless you try to use something else — then you get threatened… but openly.
I think that’s it.
Michael Zhang for PetaPixel:
At Leica’s special event last night, after the new Leica M was announced, company owner Dr. Andreas Kaufmann revealed that they’ve got a very special limited edition version of the camera planned — one that’s designed by legendary Apple designer Sir Jonathan Ive.
Zhang calls it “the mother of all limited editions based on one simple fact: only a single unit of the camera will ever be produced.”
The camera Ive will design will be auctioned off, the proceeds going to charity.
I’m sure there are a few iPhone users out there who feel exactly the same as this cute li’l guy.
Tina Roth Eisenberg put together a list of minimal WordPress themes at Swissmiss. Definitely worth a look if you’re pondering a new design.
A tweet by Nokia making fun of iPhone 5 and/or Samsung. This coming from a company that has to fake its camera demos and can’t ship.
[Via CNET]
I love all that can be done with CSS3. At some point your readers just have to update their browsers.
There’s no love lost between Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Canada’s big Internet providers: “It’s almost a human rights violation what they’re charging for internet access in Canada,” Sarandos said during the Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment conference in Los Angeles Wednesday.
You said it, brother!
Much respect to 70-year-old farmer Pedro Martin Ureta for making such a great forest.
I’ve live blogged a lot of things, but I don’t know how he did this.
Rogue Amoeba announced Monday the release of Fission 2, a major new version of their audio editing software for OS X. It costs $32 and is available for download from Rogue Amoeba’s Web site or from the Mac App Store (a demo is available for download too). Upgrades cost $15.
Fission lets you edit and manipulate audio files on your Mac. You can use it to crop and trim audio, paste in and join files, split them and more. It works lossless, so your audio quality remains pristine.
The new release gets a “complete overhaul of its user interface,” according to the developer, easier to use for new users and streamlined and enhanced for experienced users. Fission 2 also adds the ability to export audio to a variety of formats including MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF or WAV. Batch conversion lets you transcode groups of files one after another. You can save and share files directly to SoundCloud with this new release, also.
We’re incredibly grateful for all of your support and hope you’ll join us on the next phase of our journey as part of Google.
Shawn Blanc’s list of three criteria on whether you should continue using a product or not. I like his list.
Through the program, Yahoo employees will have a choice of phones: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920.Yahoo is also going to pay its employees data and phone bills.
Marissa Mayer is making a lot of good moves to make her staff happy.
I think Samsung forgot one:
“Stolen from Apple.”
Apple revealed Monday that it has received two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in the first 24 hours, despite tech bloggers’ pronouncements that the iPhone 5’s feature list was boring and predictable. In typical fashion the Apple community is now sticking the two million number in the faces of the tech press, using this as an “I told you so” moment.
I think both sides need to get some perspective.
The iPhone 5 is coming this Friday. Many people pre-ordered one and will undoubtedly fill Twitter with gleeful comments about their devices’ shipping status, tracking the package from China to their front door, and others will stand in line on Friday at their local Apple, AT&T, Verizon or Sprint store to be the first of their friends with the shiny new toy.
Already, Twitter has erupted in a cacophony of comments from users incensed that they’re not able to get an iPhone 5 as inexpensively as they expected because of their cell phone carrier’s rules, or fed up with their current plan and wishing to switch to a competitor’s network, or upset because the iPhone 5 didn’t have that one killer feature that would have made all the difference.
Tech bloggers practically tripped over themselves after Wednesday’s Apple event in San Francisco, to declare the event a success or a failure. To prognosticate about Apple’s future, the iPhone’s future, and its relevance against myriad competitors running Android and other smartphone operating systems.
Meanwhile, Narcissus grabs a hand mirror, spreads his legs, squats, and sighs lovingly as he stares at the reflection of his taint.
I really wish the tech blogosphere would get just a tiny bit of perspective.
Apple makes things that some people like and that some people don’t like. They’ve made a lot of money doing that over the past few years. Signs point to that trend continuing.
On Friday, September 21, 2012, the iPhone 5 will be released.
Meanwhile, the world will continue to spin on its axis as if (GASP) none of this matters.
Google’s Andy Rubin talking to Aliyun OS’s John Spelich:
So there’s really no disputing that Aliyun is based on the Android platform and takes advantage of all the hard work that’s gone into that platform by the OHA.
You mean like how you stole iOS and built Android? Never good when that happens Andy.
Apple on Monday said its iPhone 5 was pre-order more than 2 million times in 24 hours when it became available on Friday.
That number is twice what the iPhone 4s was able to pull in last year, according to Apple.
“iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we’ve ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do.”
The iPhone 5 was introduced last Wednesday at a special event in San Francisco. The new iPhone debuted with a larger screen, faster processor, faster Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, among other new features.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt for Fortune:
In the popular imagination — and in Samsung TV ads — the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) gewgaw are hopeless fanboys and fangirls who need to get a life. That attitude is so 2007.
Elmer-DeWitt notices an interesting trend in the folks who camp out the earliest – at least in some cases, they’re doing it either in a craven attempt at self-promotion or to raise awareness of a charity or cause they’re supporting.
AT&T confirmed Monday that the iPhone 5 is the most popular iPhone model in the company’s history, calling the “fastest-selling iPhone the company has ever offered.”
Customers ordered more iPhones from AT&T than any previous model both on its first day of preorders and over the weekend.
The device will be available starting this Friday, September 21, 2012. In the U.S., it’s also available with service from Verizon and Sprint.
Fileperms:
WhatsApp, the extremely popular instant messaging service for smartphones that delivers more than ~1billion messages per day has some serious security problems. I will try to give a detailed analysis on some of the issues.
I’m not smart enough to be able to tell if this article is correct so it’s passed along for your information.
Many thanks to SonicPics for sponsoring The Loop this week.
SonicPics is a fun and engaging digital storytelling app for iOS. Turn your photographs into narrated movies to share with your family and friends!
Check out SonicPics today on the app store.
Gizmodo:
Nothing screams more “forever alone” than an unboxing video. There are no more surprises. I’ll tell you what’s going to be inside the iPhone 5 box: an iPhone 5.
I rarely agree with Gizmodo but in this case, they’re right. Gadget unboxing pictures and videos are beyond lame. Now, a motorcycle unboxing – that’s cool!
I’ve always been fascinated glassblowers and love watching them work.
TIME:
The fact that yesterday’s bash wasn’t full of startling twists presumably helps explain why it prompted lots of stories declaring the event, and even the iPhone 5 itself, to be a disappointment. Product rollouts aren’t action movies. Surprises are nice, but they aren’t the ultimate goal — at least if the idea is to sell lots and lots of gadgets and make lots and lots of money. Surprise has no inherent relation to quality or popularity.
It will be interesting to see if this “lack of secrecy” regarding the details of the iPhone 5 are an anomaly or the new standard operating procedure for Apple.
Fans of computer role playing games had looked forward to Overhaul Games’ resurrection of the legendary classic Baldur’s Gate, which was expected to happen sometime this month. Word has emerged that Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition won’t ship until November.
Trent Oster, president of Overhaul, posted a message to the game’s Web site forum to note that the release date has been pushed back to November “to ensure that Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition is the best possible product on launch.”
Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition reprises the original game – developed by Bioware (Overhaul includes members of the original development team) along with new characters, areas to explore and story. It’ll be available on OS X, iPad and other platforms.
The original game was a landmark CRPG, following a modified version of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. It spawned sequels and propelled Bioware to become one of the top adventure game developers around. It was published in 1998 for Windows by Interplay, and MacPlay brought forth a Mac edition later.
My latest article on Techpinions talks about how the iPhone naysayers are just plain wrong.
Apple on Friday responded to customer demand for the new iPhone announced at an event earlier this week.
“Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible,” said Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Kerris. “We’ve been completely blown away by the customer response.”
The iPhone 5 goes on sale Friday, September 21, 2012 for $199 and $299 in 16GB and 32GB models respectively. A 64GB model is also available for $399. Preorders began today.