Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Author: Martin

Gems from the Web:

  • Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Web Collaboration Service, Free Desktop Sharing, video conferencing, remote control software, net  - includes screen sharing, works on Mac, Windows and even Linux
  • Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components – Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
  • Red full test – The Red as seen through the eyes of a 1st AC
  • Instant Expert: Optics Options – DV mag has made a one-page comparison of the lens choices available these days.
  • Dark Book Of Photoshop – Some great Photoshop tricks
  • BluRay too expensive for independent producers? – Producers of industrial and non-broadcast content are required to pay a $2,500 licensing fee to author and distribute Blu-Ray. Then, each producer is required to pay a $3,000 AACS license fee, plus a per-title fee for EACH replicated Blu-Ray disc.
  • Apple lures even loyal Windows users – Dean Takahashi at San Jose Mercury News is impressed with his new MacBook Air: “I’m starting to trust Apple to move faster, while I fear that Microsoft will lose itself in gigantic projects.”
  • 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts – Nice collection over at BittBox
  • Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Listing the last words of executed criminals. “I guess this is it.”, ends Richard. Many references to god, injustice, despair. “Let’s do it, man. Lock and load. Ain’t life a [expletive deleted]?” or “See you on the other side. Warden, murder me.”
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    3 Responses

    1. As a fairly loyal Windows user I must admit that playing with those cute machines is fun. Some things I don’t like, some tools I miss but overall I’m getting used to Mac.

    2. For tools that you miss, http://macupdate.com is a good place to start hunting.

    3. I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.

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