Reports are circulating that Apple scrapped a finished Final Cut Pro 8 and instead focused on revolutionizing the industry with Final Cut Pro X instead. Richard Harrington, founder of RHED Pixel, spilled the beans in an interview with FCP.co:
There was a Final Cut 8 and it was 64bit and it was done and they looked at it and said ‘This is not what we want to do, this is evolutionary, this is not revolutionary’ and they killed it.
The video interview has since disappeared from the FCP.co website. In this industry, when a video suddenly goes missing like that it usually means someone wasn’t happy about the leaked information. Remember the leaked screenshots of Final Cut Pro X before it shipped? Yeah, we got legal letters asking us to remove them. Good times.
Final Cut Pro X has seen its fair share of criticisms from the industry, and from two of our writers, both of who made similar conclusions, but came to different outcomes. At this stage, most people I know who are editing video have given up on Final Cut Pro X as it currently exists. I’m sure the fact that a fully 64-bit version of Final Cut Pro 8 existed is going to annoy some people.
What do you get when you merge the Mac and iPad numbers? How about an HP destruction machine that’s destined to topple Hewlett-Packard as the world’s leading computer vendor. According to HP CEO Meg Whitman, Apple could pass HP in market share in 2012, putting Apple at the top of the PC-vendor pile.
Epic Games, the company behind the famous Infinity Blade game, has uploaded a video demoing the second iteration of the app. This game will blow your mind. As announced at WWDC 2011, Infinity Blade 2 is twice as awesome, twice as fast, has twice the blades, and… you get the point. There’s not much more to say than to watch the video and wait until this Thursday, December 1st, when the app will make its way to your homescreen!
Hey, remember Siri0us? That jailbreak tweak we told you about today that allowed you to use dictation on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4? Yeah, it got pulled from Cydia today. Apparently, Eric Day, the developer of the tweak, was forced to pull it down after Nuance, the company whose voice-recognition technology the tweak used, denied him the rights to the technology. In other words, Nuance didn’t like him or Siri0us.
But don’t lose courage iPhone 4 users who don’t want to upgrade. After all, Eric Day hasn’t. In fact, he’s already on the hunt to find a free alternative technology to use in place of Nuance. As soon as he finds one, he’ll be sure to re-upload Siri0us.
As for you lucky ones who downloaded the tweak before it was pulled, you’re in luck – for now. Siri0us still works. However, there’s a chance that Nuance will be pulling the plug on that shortly. So have fun telling your iPhone what to write while it lasts.
Ever wish you had a lightweight stick-on keyboard that you could use with your iPad whenever you needed to type? Well, you’re in luck. Two fellows by the names of Steve Isaac and Brad Melmon have developed a flexible keyboard that weighs less than an ounce that attaches to your iPad with magnets. It’s transparent, retractable, and designed to work well with both the original iPad and the iPad 2.
Instead of going the traditional route of slapping a keyboard at the bottom, they engineered a way to meld the onscreen keyboard with the tactile nature of traditional keyboards. If it works as well in real life as it does in the demo, I could see this selling pretty well among the nerdy crowd. As of writing this, it already has over 1,300 backers on Kickstarter as well as over $86,000 USD invested.
Apple has rolled out a Safari update, bringing the application to version 5.1.2, and we recommend you get your freak update on in Software Update. The update addresses a number of bugs.
The typically vague press release mentions that the update:
Improves stability
Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
Address issues that could cause webpages to flash white
Allows PDFs to be displayed within web content
As an aside, why hasn’t Safari found its way into the Mac App Store yet? This having to hit up both Software Update and the Mac App Store for my updates isn’t exactly optimal. One software update location to rule them all, please.
If Elvis Costello’s new box set, “The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook” (due out on Dec 6th), seems way overpriced to you, join the club; Elvis Costello thinks so as well. And he’s got some strong opinions about why you shouldn’t buy it.
Sometimes the best photos you can take are the ones where you’re not actually holding the camera. Those shaky and often blurry snaps can ruin a fantastic photo in a hurry. Tapping the screen to snap a photo doesn’t exactly help the cause either, often unframing that perfectly framed shot you’ve managed to stumble backwards into with your eyes closed.
So, you’re probably wondering how exactly you’re going to snap that picture with your iPhone if you’re no longer holding it. It turns out that your iPhone headphones act in much the same way as your volume button on the device. Your iPhone headphones, the one with the built in microphone, can act as a quick release for your photos. You can now trigger your phone camera while it’s attached to a GLIF and a Joby Gorillapod. This nifty little trick comes courtesy of iOS 5, so you have to be up to snuff with your software patches to make this work.
Say goodbye to blur forever, unless, you know, you’re trying to be all artsy.
Reports are circulating that Apple scrapped a finished Final Cut Pro 8 and instead focused on revolutionizing the industry with Final Cut Pro X instead. Richard Harrington, founder of RHED Pixel, spilled the beans in an interview with FCP.co:
November 30, 2011
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