Technology

Tech Friday Review: Bento

Aanarav Sareen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:03:47 -0500

Welcome to Zoom In Online™'s Tech Friday series. This week, we'll review Bento from FileMaker.

Tech Friday Review: Neat Receipts

Aanarav Sareen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:22:40 -0500

Welcome to Zoom In Online™'s Tech Friday series. This week, we'll review the Neat Receipts scanner and organizer.

Tech Friday Review: Logitech Harmony One Advanced Universal Remote

Aanarav Sareen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:48:16 -0500

Welcome to Zoom In Online™'s Tech Friday series. This week, we'll review the Harmony One Advanced Universal Remote from Logitech.

Final Cut Studio 2: REDCODE Plugin Released

Todd — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:37:01 -0600

Red Digital Cinema announced this week support in Final Cut Pro6 (Final Cut Studio 2) for the native REDCODE Raw format. Digital Production Buzz reports that "Red Digital Cinema have released Redcine, a software tool to convert native REDCODE footage to any codec you have installed on the system. QuickTime Reference files, link the source REDCODE Raw footage into a QuickTime movie so that applications like Final Cut Pro can use the footage 'natively'."

1966 Prediction of Home Computing in 1999

Matthew — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:29:35 -0500

Fascinating little clip about the home computer of the future: accurate in content, offensive in gender role stereotypes!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102

My Brand New iBrick

Matthew — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:14:16 -0500

I'd love to be able to tell all of you how fantastically revolutionary and life changing my new iPhone is; but after 34 hours, the darn thing still doesn't work—it' s in activation Purgatory with my dear friends at AT&T.

"My God, It's Full Of Functions..."

Todd — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:10:39 -0500

In the age of "fan-ads" this has got to be one of the best concepts and slickest executions. Thanks for forwarding this over Geoff!

There are a whole slew of fake iPhone ads that mock the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads on YouTube as well. This is the funniest one I found. Enjoy!

iPhone Competitors Gearing Up

Todd — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:12:41 -0500

Advertising Age had some great coverage yesterday in a post called "Telecoms Shore Up Defenses for iPhone Invasion" which lays out details about products slated to compete with Apple's iPhone, due out June 29. The AdAge post covers info about the MEDIAFLOTV PHONE from LG, the Motorola RAZR2, Helio's OCEAN, Motorola's AMP'D, and four other products.

For each product, the article covers, the players, the marketing strategy, the draw and the odds it has a chance of stacking up against the iPhone.

"Companies Say They Welcome Apple's Game Changer, But That Sure Isn't Stopping Them From Fighting It Off."

Follow Up: Greenpeace Responds to Apple's "A Greener Apple" Announcement

Todd — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:34 -0500

Greenpeace mounted a really effective campaign, people responded, and Apple reacted. I've included a few of the key parts of the Greenpeace post here, but link over to Greenpeace to read their "Tasty News From Apple" post. Good Stuff!

Exclusive NAB Interview: Richard Townhill, Director of Pro Video Product Management at Apple

Todd — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:35:44 -0500

At NAB 2007, Megan Cunningham had a half-hour sit down with the Director of Pro Video Product Management at Apple, Richard Townhill, at his 19th NAB, and they discuss how Apple's newly announced Final Cut Studio 2 will take care of producer's needs - From Hollywood to Video-Blogging.