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ClipWrap 2.0.4 (Mac)

ClipWrap rewraps the video samples from your existing m2t files without re-encoding them. This means blazingly fast convert speeds and no image degradation.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Degradation, Divergent Media, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-24

ScopeBox 2 (Mac)

Across the industry, there is a wave of change from single-use hardware solutions to software-based solutions running on standard personal computers. ScopeBox capitalizes on this trend by allowing users to replace expensive hardware devices with a single, low-cost, flexible software application. ScopeBox recreates every major video quality assurance tool in...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Hardware, Divergent Media, ScopeBox, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-08-28

Additional Resources

JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Internet ad spend up 8.5 percent in first quarter

Internet advertising grew at an 8.5 percent clip in the first quarter compared to a year ago, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Display advertising fell off of 2007's double digit growth, but relative to other categories Internet ads held up well. TNS' scorecard shows television media purchases...

Tags: Advertisement, Radio, Internet Advertising, TNS, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google vs. Yahoo: The open jobs report

UBS is out with its 2007 analysis of open job listings at Google and Yahoo and what they tell us about the two companies' respective direction. The short version: Both are thinking video. Google is on a lawyer binge while Yahoo wants engineering types.Here are a few notable figures from...

Tags: General, Google, Web Technology, Yahoo, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-31

My MacBook Pro Experience - A few days left!

My MacBook Pro Experience - A few days left!Virus TestingI think you would be hard pressed to find a virus that would effect OSX. So even if you did have an install disc, I doubt you could damage the OS via virii.I would be interested on your take of comparing...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Apple iLife, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-02-06

Yahoo vs. Google: Why Panama is the wrong destination

Do the marketers rule at Yahoo, while the engineers rule at Google? Fred Vogelstein believes he has “empirical evidence” that such is the case.Vogelstein begins his Wired magazine piece: “Terry Semel was pissed,” in bold for emphasis.Vogelstein looks back to Yahoo vs. Google in 2002, and apparently has a pictorial...

Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, Yahoo, Google Software Applications, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Apple TV might obsolete the x86 appliance market

Apple TV might obsolete the x86 appliance marketI'm not sure I understand where you're going with this....... but it seems to do many of the functions of the much touted "Windows Home Server" but on a smaller scale. Or is this some sort of router?What *IS* this device? Your blog...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Intel x86, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Media Center PC, TV

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

More thoughts on the Apple phone, or lack thereof

SAN FRANCISCO -- Im on record that I think that the iPhone is a red herring which is loosely translated as "something being a diversion or distraction from the original objective." I think that Apple could be using it as a decoy to keep us off the scent of whatever...

Tags: Macworld Expo, iPhone, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Phone, telephone

Blog posts 2007-01-08

TV: Fast forward to television in 2012

In “TechCrunch vs. paidContent or Web 2.0 vs. New Media” I underscore how the two recent NYC parties held by the blogging networks reflected the vastly different editorial, and business, approaches of their founders, Michael TechCrunch Arrington and Raft paidContent Ali.The party “takeaways” also differed: An “I am in in...

Tags: Television, TV, Advertising, Media, Business Models

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Is there a technological cure for being boring?

Is there a technological cure for being boring?Allow the creative commons to take over.Yes there is and it is already happening. The internet is allowing a far greater and more divergent expression of humanity. The twisted and biased version of society promoted on old world media, by extrovert jock straps...

Tags: Internet

Discussion threads 2006-09-13

Controversy over GPLv3 draft reflects the 'incompatibility' of DRM with open source

Controversy over GPLv3 draft reflects the 'incompatibility' of DRM with open sourceThe DRM Debate is BackwardsAll the above does is highlight the fact that the entertainment industry does not listen to its customers. Why is there all this squabble over a technology that is loathed by consumers? The solution to...

Tags: CSS, digital-rights management, GPLv3, open source

Discussion threads 2006-07-28

Apple rolls out 1GB Nano

Apple rolls out 1GB NanoOK, I understand this, but...That's the wrong way Apple. You want to make them larger!!!!Congrats on trying to compete with Dell, I think you are doing a swell job.I think song/photo counts are wrong15,000 photos in 1Gb? That would be a pretty low resolution...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Nano, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-02-07

Make open source compatible with content

Make open source compatible with contentWhere did you get this load of rubbish?"Already, U.S. content producers are losing their overseas markets, one by one, to local competitors."Back that up with some proof! The last numbers I've seen says that entertainment "content" is still the number one US export.Who cares?[i]It's...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Nothing, digital-rights management, open source

Discussion threads 2005-09-19

Them is Us

I just spent the last three days immersed in the strangely parallel universe of public broadcasting and the Integrated Media Association's New Media Summit. Parallel in that, as I said to one of the organizers, "I figured you guys existed; I just didn't know who you were." Strange in that,...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-01-29

Microsoft cleared--in Brazil

Microsoft cleared--in BrazilImagine that, they think Linux is a viable alternative.I guess folks in the EU are to stupid to see it.Microsoft actually lost in BrazilWhile they may have been cleared of anti-trust, they lost large when the Brazillian government decided to move to Linux/OSS. Seems to me that they...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Vertical industries, Now IT, Linux, Microsoft Corp., government, software, LINUX IS, open source, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-06-09

Real offers new tech, song store

Real offers new tech, song storebad experiences with Real's stuffSince the early days of realOne service...tried and tried..but their stuff is real bad. shoddy player, shoddy encoding, shoddy video, shoddy content, and terrible support.i'll stick with iTunes thanks.MP3Apple sells 30 million tracks, 70% of the market.P2P indicates that music download...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, P2P, Apple Inc., MP3, patron

Discussion threads 2004-01-06