News headlines

• Microsoft opens door to Kinect for Windows apps
  

  Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK and hardware, allowing for new PC applications that are controlled by voice and gestures

• 7toX for Final Cut Pro converts legacy FCP projects
  

  Solves issue of lack of support for projects created in earlier versions of Final Cut Pro

• First look: Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 restores pro features; adds new ones
  

  Many users who hastily abandoned FCP X might want to reconsider

• Apple releases Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3
  

  'Significant' update to pro video editing app

• New Echograph app seeks to combine video and stills into a unique package
  

  Expo Notes: The intersection between photography and video

• Macworld | iWorld goes on down to South Park, has itself a time
  

  Every episode of the long-running animated series is created almost entirely on Macs

• Panel highlights use of Macs, iOS in music, movies
  

  Expo notes: It's not every panel discussion that breaks in the middle for an improv freestyle rap with two human beatboxes

• Video Camera shooting, editing and sharing app debuts
  

  Expo Notes: Perfect for those who want to create videos but don't know how to get started

• First Look: Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta
  

  The latest iteration of Adobe Lightroom reveals both refinement and new features

• AJA releases Io XT
  

  Thunderbolt-powered video I/O device

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Blogs

>> Wed, 25 Jan 2012

Simon Jary - It’s T time for Apple

By Simon Jary

Tangerine   Apple is usually very particular about its colours, favouring a strict monochromatic policy ruled with an iron – or more likely a brushed aluminium – fist. From 1984 to 1990 just about every Apple product (except for its lurid logo) had to conform to the Snow White design language, which pinpointed exactly the correct tone of white or near beige the casing should be in. This was all down to Steve Jobs’ severe notion of perfect aesthetic beauty.

>> Thu, 19 Jan 2012

Andy Ihnatko - Photographic evidence

By Andy Ihnatko

I love this idea. A case that makes your iPhone look like an old-timey camera? That's an old gag. The Gizmon iCA (http://gizmon.com/) is an iPhone case that makes your phone work like an old-timey camera.

>> Tue, 10 Jan 2012

Jason Snell - The iPhone: Five years later...

By Jason Snell

Five years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld Expo and unveiled the iPhone.

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