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Here are some lovely butter cookies made with Adobe's new Photoshop Cook software! We wish. The video is actually a clever stop motion animation created for the AdobeYouGC competition. The ingredients? A camera, cardboard, kitchen utensils and a lot of free time.

If only real life had an Undo key.

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Labels: review, software, video

Sirius Releases The History of Howard Stern Act III - Timeline Widget



Got a Sirius satellite radio? Are you a Howard Stern fan? Act III of the award-winning radio documentary series, The History of Howard Stern, premiers December 21, 2009. The series revisits the legendary career and achievements of the self proclaimed The King of All Media.

To help promote the series, Sirius created a fun timeline widget that allows you to scroll through Stern's career and listen to sound bites. The widget covers everything from Cruified By The FCC and Fart Man to Sterns' best selling book Private Parts.

In the mid '90s, the radio pioneer was thrust into the national spotlight as a best-selling author, unlikely political figure and an undeniable pop culture force in both radio and television. The 2-week special features hours of archival clips from Howard's personal vault, plus never-before-heard interviews from The Howard Stern Show staff, friends, family, former colleagues and some of the biggest names in entertainment. It's a must hear for Stern fans everywhere.

If you don't already have a Sirius radio, there's still time to pick one up or subscribe to their web only streaming service.




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Labels: internet, software

There's a new Ziggy Marley app for the iPhone in the iTunes Store. The app, called Ziggy Marley's Music Mixer, allows users to mix tracks, break beats and create their own dub sounds. There are also a couple features that take advantage of the iPhone's accelerometer feature. Just select one of these options in the app and shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to make instant randomized music.

• "Jackpot Mix" - randomly mixes different sounds
• "DJ for Me" - picks a track and then randomly remixes interchangeable reggae riffs

You can download Ziggy Marley's Music Mixer app from the iTunes Store here.




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Labels: iphone, itunes, music, review, software

Can't be face to face with your friends and family this holiday season? No problem. Just grab your iPhone and broadcast yourself. Thanks to a new free app called Ustream Broadcaster, iPhone 3GS users can now broadcast live video over both WiFi and AT&T's 3G network.

"This is the first live broadcaster ever available in the App Store, bringing the ability to broadcast live to anyone," said Dr. Gyula Feher, Ustream's founder on the company's blog. "From birthday parties, kids’ sports games and baby’s first steps to your latest vacation, this app enables anyone with an iPhone to share important moments with family, friends and more."

Ustream has even added a one-touch sharing feature that allows users to not only post videos to YouTube, Facebook but it will even announce your new video to your Twitter followers.

The app not only works on older iPhone 3G models, but it enables a video recording work around. Apple hasn't updated older iPhones with software that would allow them to record video. But in addition to streaming capabilities, Ustream Broadcaster lets iPhone 3G users record video straight to their iPhones.

You can download Ustream Broadcaster from the iTunes App Store here.


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Labels: iphone, software, tech news, video

TwitBird Pro is a fast and feature rich twitter client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It has a lot of common features included in other iPhone Twitter apps but TwitBird Pro brings them all together in one great easy to use interface.

You can download a free demo or the full version for $2.99 from the iTunes App Store.

DOWNLOAD: TwitBird Pro [iTunes]



Unique Features:

● Multiple Accounts
● Push notification for mentions and DM between TwitBird and TwitBird Pro users
● Badges to show number of unread tweets
● Landscape mode supported everywhere
● Landscape inline browser
● Address Book
● Group feature
● Cached tweets for faster loading


Other Features:

● View your twitter timeline, replies, and direct messages
● Manage your favorite tweets
● Browse your following and followers
● Compose new tweets
● Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
● Follow and un-follow people
● Inline TwitPic image viewer
● Upload pictures to TwitPic
● Unparalleled scrolling performance
● Twitlonger supported
● Uses secure connection (https)
● Custom searches
● Nearby searching
● Save your favorite searches
● landscape keyboard
● Conversational Threaded tweets

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Labels: iphone, mobile, software

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We found this screengrab on Reddit this morning. Apparently the person who quit was unhappy with his job and chose to inform the company via a custom Macintosh OS X application.

Assumetehposition, a former co-worker of the guy who quit, submitted the screengrab to Reddit and posted the following explanation in the comments thread.

"He believed he was in a temp-to-hire position, and after three months of extra hours and butt-kissing, turns out it's just a temp position. He was a good worker too. I'd have recommended him. Too bad he burned his bridges... Obviously he had contemplated quitting long enough to make this thing, but still refused to speak to anyone about his feelings. Ironically, he complained about the 'divas' at his last job."

What do you think? Diva designer? Passive-aggressive? Regardless of what really happened, we still think it's a pretty clever way to quit.


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Labels: pics, software

Good news space nerds. NASA just released an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application is available free of charge in the iTunes App Store.

The new NASA app collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources. It will also deliver a wealth of information, videos, images and news updates about future NASA missions.

Here's a quote from the official press released posted on the U.S. Air Force's website:

"Making NASA more accessible to the public is a high priority for the agency," said Gale Allen, director of Strategic Integration and Management for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in Washington. "Tools like this allow us to provide users easy access to NASA information and progress at a fast pace."

The NASA App also allows users to track the current positions of the International Space Station and other spacecraft currently orbiting Earth in three views: a map with borders and labels, visible satellite imagery, or satellite overlaid with country borders and labels.

For more information about NASA's iPhone application, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/iphone or you can download the app from the iTunes Store here.



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Labels: iphone, itunes, software

Do you use Adobe Dreamweaver to create and design websites? Is Dreamweaver no longer automatically uploading all dependent files when you save a page? We use Adobe Dreamweaver to create methodshop.com and this always seems to trip us up everyone couple years or so.

Chances are you probably were messing around with your Dreamweaver Preferences or accidentally checked the "Don't Ask Me Again" check during the "putting" process.

PROBLEM: Dreamweaver fails to prompt for including dependent files when putting

SOLUTION: This is an easy fix. If you want to be prompted to upload dependent files, then you'll need to turn on the "Prompt on Put/Check In" preference. Just follow the directions below:

Requirements:

• Dreamweaver 3 or higher (Mac/PC)

1. Choose Edit > Preferences.
2. Select the Site category.
3. Under Dependent Files, check Prompt on Put/Check In.


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Fresh off the heels of Apple's new product announcements this week, Microsoft released their new operating system, Windows 7 today.

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, even stopped by the American morning program, the TODAY Show, to show off the new OS to co-anchor Matt Lauer [video].

Ballmer took on some tough questions from Lauer including:

• Can consumers use the iPhone to satisfy all their computing needs?
• Will Windows 7 get the same lukewarm reaction to Microsoft's previous operating system, Vista?
• Is Ballmer envious of Apple's "cool" image?

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Labels: apple, software, tech news, video

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track. The important thing is that you don't need another startup disk with you. All you need to do is restart in Single User Mode (SUM), by holding down the command and s keys at startup, and then typing applejack, or applejack auto (which will run through all the tasks automatically), or applejack auto restart (which will also restart the computer automatically at the end of the process).

You can download AppleJack here: http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

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Labels: mac, software

Ok, so you have a stereo mix of your music that that needs a little EQ, a good fade out, and some volume so it's louder on the web. Or, you have a bad recording of dialog for your film that you want to compress and remove some noise from. Maybe you have some drum loops you need to cut up and add underneath the dialog in your new podcast.

Whether you're a musician, composer, sound designer, audio editor, podcast/multimedia producer, or mastering engineer, you will find Peak Pro feature rich, yet flexible and friendly. It is industry-renowned for sonic quality and precision.

Designed specifically for recording, processing, editing and mastering audio on the Mac platform, Peak Pro 6 is a major update from Peak 5. The newest version builds upon its predecessor and includes many new developments that offer more creative potential than ever before.

Full Review: Bias Peak Pro 6


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Do you have a bunch of VHS tapes sitting on a shelf gathering dust, but you're not about to toss them out because you spent a bunch of money on them, love the movies, but aren't ready to spend more money to replace them with DVDs?

Well convert 'em! Gizmos for Geeks put together a quick round-up of a few products that will help you convert your VHS paperweights to DVDs. For starters, companies like Panasonic have VHS/DVD combo player-recorders that are the simplest to use, but are the most expensive of the bunch.

The other solutions are software/hardware combos that can not only convert VHS tapes but pretty much any video source to a variety of digital formats. The Honestech VHS to DVD (which does not have the best name) can convert practically any analog source you can feed into its converter box, and has some very nice software to manage the process as well.

If you have more than 5 to 10 tapes, then it quickly becomes worth it to spend a bit of money on one of these up front and not $10+ on each of the DVD replacements.

You can read the whole article here.

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Labels: converter, dvd, hardware, software, vhs, video

Continue reading: Legacy Locker passes on your digital assets to your beneficiaries when you die

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Labels: internet, software

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has posted the band's new single, "The Hand That Feeds," as a free download for Apple's GarageBand application.

The song, which weighs in at a hefty 70MB, features multiple tracks that you can easily tweak. "For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks -- to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there," Reznor says.

"After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy."

Fans are encouraged to build their own songs out of the NIN track's constituent parts, or just mess around to their heart's content.

Review: GarageBand 3


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