I’ve used Mailplane as my stand-alone mail client on the Mac for years. I used it since my main account is Gmail based and all my other domain-based account are funneled through the Gmail account to take advantage of the spam filter. Mailplane did everything I needed it to do. An adjustable toolbar that allows [...]
I’ve been a self-taught HTML writer since the early 1990s. During that time I designed hundreds of websites for local businesses and online businesses throughout the world. But in the past 10 years HTML has become much more difficult and i find that when I need to write a website I’m using a WYSIWYG editor [...]
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I’ve been on a roll of late talking about all the special effects and plug-ins for FCPX from FXFactory. Last, but not least, we’re looking at Borders from SquidFX. Borders allows you to add frames around your video projects or stills in FCPX. That may sound a bit boring for you, but believe me when [...]
Today we’re looking at another FCPX effect you can use in your video project, this one is called Impackt from Luca Visual FX. As with all the other effects we’ve talked about here, Impackt works as part of the FxFactory family. Luca is an award winning video-maker and editor with broadcast credits who has worked [...]
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Here’s another great Final Cut Pro X effect from FxFactory, specifically, Tokyo. This one is called the PiPinator. We just looked at Split Screen Animation from Tokyo on Surfbits, so we looked forward to playing around with this new effect. Tokyo PiPinator is an advanced but simple-to-use Picture-in-Picture effect that brings the power of menu-driven [...]
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I was fortunate enough to record a new “ChitChat Across the Pond” segment with my dear friend Allison Sheridan from for the NosillaCast podcast last night. The live show will be recorded on Sunday, and, unless I’m mistaken, it will Allison’s 400th episode. Congrats to her and may she record many, many more. We talked [...]
New Potato Technologies have some interesting products, but none more interesting to us iPad owners then their new Classic Match Foosball. Let me try to explain how this works. There are basically two parts to this iPad game, first their free iPad app available from the iTunes store, and then their Classic Match Foosball table [...]
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We all have seen movies and television shows where the viewer appears to be looking through a set of binoculars, or maybe some night vision goggles. What about those documentaries that seem as if you’re looking at a camcorder screen, or through a camera viewfinder. Finally we’ve seen those big-game hunting shows where you appear [...]
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Oh Backups, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I backup my backups to my backups, and I love to try all the latest backup solutions. The one online backup solution I used for the last several years has been Dolly Drive. Dolly Drive was a unique backup solution because it used [...]
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One of my favorite Mac utility apps just went mobile. I always loved the way Fantastical makes entering calendar events and reminders. Simple English, it’s fast and very accurate. Using an advanced natural language engine, Fantastical is extremely expressive, allowing users enter event details in their own style. For example, enter a sentence such as [...]
We’ve talked about FxFactory here before and several of the plug-ins and templates that go with it. Tokyo Split Screen Animator is a set of 19 templates designed exclusively for Final Cut Pro X users that work through FxFactory. Once installed all you do is to pick one of the 19 templates from your FCP [...]
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I wanted to clear up a few points from my MacRoundtable appearance. My pick of the week was Spanning Backup. I use Spanning Backup (https://spanningbackup.com/s5m5/TUV6E7) to backup my Google Apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Contacts…and I thought you’d might be interested in it as well. After a 14-day free trial period, Spanning [...]
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Fission was always a simple and fast method for edits of recordings from both Audio Hijack Pro and Piezo, as well as creating iPhone ringtones, editing iTunes Music Store files, and more. After 6 years, Fission comes out with a new version 2 that takes audio editing up a notch. Fission 2 Key Features Export [...]
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The problem is you live in Germany but you want to watch NetFlix, maybe you live in Canada and you want Spotify. Maybe you live in the US but you’re traveling abroad and you want to watch shows from your Hulu account. The solution in the past has been to use a VPN which can [...]
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One of my favorite Mac developers, and my favorite shareware game developer, Jeff Vogel of SpiderWeb Software, released a statement about plans to go mobile. Jeff does wonderful, old style RPG’s. If you’re a Dungeon crawl, hack and slash fan, or just enjoy a good story in your Mac gaming, then this news will make [...]
