WWDC ‘08: Charlie Wood (Spanning Sync)

July 8, 2008

I have officially managed to finish sorting and editing all of the footage from WWDC. The last video in our series is a chat with Charlie Wood from Spanning Sync. He managed to build it to an early appointment at my hotel on the dawn I was leaving, despite having made the most of a large-scale b…

States add K-12 educational composition to iTunes U

July 7, 2008

Users of iTunes U, the free educational subject matter channel inside iTunes, will have a lot more elementary education material to choose from — the states of Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah have all added some of their K-12 material to the mix, and a numbe…

Evernote + Screencast ready for prime duration and paid use

June 24, 2008

Two of my preferred Mac-friendly cloud services have now made the jump to actually accepting money from subscribers, which is a good thing (really, it is!). TUAW favorite Evernote has moved from private to public beta, and Techsmith video hosting site Screencast.com is now at 1.0 release status….

Logitech releases Mac-only webcam; cats, dogs reported living together

June 24, 2008

Apologies to Dr. Peter Venkman, but it’s hard to believe that it’s taken that towering for a webcam vendor to encroach on the vacuum left by the discontinued iSight, even though we have hints that a new model of the Apple camera might be on the HD horizon. Logitech has now announced the QuickCam…

Troll Touch your iMac screen

June 18, 2008

I occasionally work with clients who need to have Macs set up as kiosks. That means that anyone can walk up and use the Mac to watch a video or access data, but they usually can’t update anything on the Mac. Kiosks are particularly useful when the user interface consists of a finger touching the…

Found Footage: Flixwagon iPhone Vidcasting

June 12, 2008

One thing I’m certain a lot of iPhone fans were upset about that week was the lack of an announcement of video broadcasting capability in the 3G iPhone. I mean, OMG, how else are we supposed to manufacture obsessive fan videos of Britney Spears?!

Don’t nag, the brilliant folks at Flixwagon ar…