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Blu-ray Review: Back to the Future Trilogy

bkanduth — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:16 +0000

In this classic sci-fi adventure from director Robert Zemeckis, eccentric inventor Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), 30 years into the past. While stuck in the 1950s, Marty disrupts his parents’ destiny and risks throwing the time-space continuum completely out of whack. The only way back to 1985 now is to get mom and dad to pucker up. The Back to the Future Trilogy is a cultural milestone …

Source: HDTV Magazine

Consumers View Video Via More Platforms, But HDTVs Most Popular, CEA Study Finds

bkanduth — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:39:10 +0000

As video consumption increases and viewing devices vary, consumers are still using televisions most often to watch video, according to The Evolving Video Landscape study released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®. Consumers are watching more video than they have in the past, across a variety of platforms. One-third of U.S. adults online (34 percent) say they watch……

Source: HDTV Magazine

iRip 2.1.4 On Sale for $14.96 (25% off)

bkanduth — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:58:28 +0000

Purchase iRip 2.1.4 On Sale Now for only $14.96 (25% off)

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About this app:

iRip (formerally iPodRip) is the definitive iPod companion application. iRip allows you to get the most out of your iPod, iPhone and iPad — you can transfer music, videos, and books from your iDevice back to your iTunes Library, listen to music directly on your iPod (allowing you to save valuable disk space) — plus much more. iRip supports all iPod Media Types — MP3, AAC, Protected AAC or Audible.com Content.

Requires

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
iTunes 8.0 or later.
any iPod, iPhone.

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Zepheer 1.1 On Sale for $7.49 (25% off)

bkanduth — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:13 +0000

Purchase Zepheer 1.1 On Sale Now for only $7.49 (25% off)

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About this app:

Zepheer is designed to be a best friend of every photography enthusiasts on Mac OS. This small app delivers dozens built-in photo styles and allows to make your photos warm, charming, beautiful, impressing, to give them the soul – even when the photos were taken with a low-end camera and bad conditions.

The application offers real-world styles, abstract filters, borders, vignettes and more – everything right up here, one click away from your Mac.

Key features:

Simple and intuitive user interface.
Dozens of customizable built-in effects to apply.
Various borders to choose from.
GPU-accelerated engine for fast and accurate real-time processing.
Facebook and Flickr integration – share your art right from the app.
Lots of supported file formats including RAW.

Requires

64-bit processor.
Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

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VideoDrive 2.6.02 On Sale for $14.25 (25% off)

bkanduth — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:45:06 +0000

Purchase VideoDrive 2.6.02 On Sale Now for only $14.25 (25% off)

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About this app:

VideoDrive makes it easy to add videos to iTunes with or without converting them or losing quality. VideoDrive supports all current formats, including mov, mpg, mpeg, mp4, m4v, avi, wmv, m2v, flv, wma, divx, mkv, asf, dv, 3gp, ogg, ogv, gif, xvid, trp and omg files.

VideoDrive offers 9 unique import methods to add any video file to iTunes. The user-friendly interface helps you to make the best choice for your setup.

With VideoDrive, your video collection will look stunning in cover flow in iTunes. Videos in iTunes can be watched in Front Row, put on your iPod, iPhone and iPad or synced and stream to any AppleTV device.

Sync and stream videos from iTunes to a hacked AppleTV without reconverting them first.

With VideoDrive you can keep your videos on separate disks, seach online for metadata and cover art, cleanup file names, automatically number season and episodes of TV Shows, include subtitles in Front Row, iPod, iPad, AppleTV and iPhone, merge video parts virtually in iTunes and much more.

Advanced conversion settings, including support for QuickTime X, Elgato.264 HD and HandBrake.

A detailed feature list can be found on the Aroona website.

Note: Free version limited to importing and tagging 20 videos

Requires

Mac OS X 10.5 or later
iTunes 10 or later
QuickTime 7 or X
Perian 1.2.3 for extended format support

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MailShoot 2.6 On Sale for $37.46 (25% off)

bkanduth — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:44:09 +0000

Purchase MailShoot 2.6 On Sale Now for only $37.46 (25% off)

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About this app:

MailShoot is the full-featured newsletter and email management software that helps you keep in touch with your visitors.

Now with MailShoot you can instantly create an online sign up form for your visitors and start collecting email addresses. Then send out periodic news and updates to your email list whenever you have something important to say.

MailShoot is a great way to keep in touch with your customers and keep visitors returning to your website.

It even works with iWeb and MobileMe hosted websites without any technical skill on your part.

Download the demo to see how it can improve your visitor loyalty and improve website traffic.

Requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later

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HDTV and Home Theater Podcast – Podcast #530: Harman Kardon AVR 2650

bkanduth — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:38:10 +0000

Ever since we saw (or better yet heard) our first demo of Dolby Volume we couldn€™t wait to find a reason to upgrade one of our receivers with this capability. That€™s going on four years now! So when Ara€™s Yamaha €œBroke€, he thought what better excuse to buy a receiver with Dolby Volume. The receiver he settled on was the Harman Kardon 2650….

Source: HDTV Magazine

LaunchBar 5.2 On Sale for $26.25 (25% off)

bkanduth — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:45:10 +0000

Purchase LaunchBar 5.2 On Sale Now for only $26.25 (25% off)

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About this app:

LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web. It provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item’s name.

You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar’s input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be opened immediately.

Start applications, open documents, invoke system services, compose emails or navigate the web – LaunchBar will be your essential servant.

Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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