Friday, April 3, 2009

iTalk vs SpeakEasy: Battle of the Best iPhone Recording Apps

iTalk vs SpeakEasy: Battle of the Best iPhone Recording Apps
In the race for best iPhone recording application, there are over a dozen contestants but few finalists. After surveying a handful, we're placing Griffin's iTalk and Zarboo's SpeakEasy in the winner's circle. While neither application is flawless, both get kudos for interface design, ease of use and file tagging.

Apple's iPhone emerges as gaming platform
Apple's iPhone has emerged as a serious videogame platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to handheld consoles.

Stanford to publish free iPhone course on iTunes U
Stanford University will be publishing a video podcasts and slides from its popular "iPhone Application Programming" course on iTunes U for free to the general public, beginning this week.


Radeon HD 4890: First Benchmarks Rather Disappointing

The NDA ended yesterday for the RAdeon HD 4890, and several dedicated websites have flooded the net with numerous tests, all aiming to demonstrate if the Radeon HD 4890 is the expected killer graphic card.

As a reminder, it features a higher clocked GPU (100 MHz) and memory (75 MHz) when compared to the Radeon HD 4870. Performance are globally in line the clock frequency difference or gain, however the card seems to be rather noisy. this might be the cost to pay for a card with a high potential to be overclocked (most card tested have reached 1 GHz for the GPU).

we are currently working on a procedure to flash such card to make it working in a Mac by using the ROM EFI from the Mac Radeon HD 4870. It was so far unsuccessful, we are still working on it.

It seems that the retailed version of the Radeon HD 4870 is still blocked to 4-5 weeks shipping delay on the Apple Store... problem with stocks or production?



Is Microsoft preparing an iPhone version of its Office Suite?

According to Eweek, quoting Stephen Elop, director of Microsoft Professional Division, Microsoft might be offering in the future an Office Suite dedicated to the iPhone. IT will of course be a reduced version with less features, but one would be able to edit files.
It is rather amazing how Microsoft is able to close its eyes on past or on-going conflicts or fights with Apple when there is an opportunity to get market share on a new growing market, as they were not able to create it. Such suite will most likely be rather expensive and not be free or only cost the usual few USD as most of iPhone apps.



Woz to Star in "Footloose" Remake
Dancing with the Stars was only the beginning...

Microsoft optimistic about Office making its way to iPhone
Microsoft still holds aspirations of delivering a version of its leading Office suite capable of running on the iPhone but needs a bit more time to get it all sorted out.


Palm Pre Continues to Generate Interest at CTIA Mobile
In the minds of many, the unreleased Palm Pre may be the biggest potential threat to Apple's growing iPhone marketshare. Announced at CES, the Palm Pre is an entirely new platform developed by Palm to replace their long-running Palm OS.
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Microsoft Still Hoping to Bring Office to iPhone?
TechCrunch reports on comments made by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft's Business Division, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco that suggest that Microsoft is still exploring ways to bring its Office suite of applications to the iPhone.<p class...

A Miraculous Product to Turn SD in HD

ArcSoft Inc announced to have developed an unique process to upscale SD source into an almost HD format. The upscaling is a procedure aiming to increase the resolution of an image or a video.

their application used algorithm to expand missing video/image contents of the SD source to upscale it. The price of the application alone is 89.99 USD, and 119.99 USD when it is bundled with a NVidia card able to speed up the process. This is not a real-time treatment, and if you want to upscale a video saved on a DVD, you will have to copy the DVD contain on your HD to be able to treat it.
Of course, the marketing points are pretending miraculous result, however nobody nor any system is able to create the missing information in the SD source, so it is only extrapolation, and you will never turn a DVD in to Blu-ray, except if it is only based on simple geometrical figures...

 



iTalk vs SpeakEasy: Battle of the Best iPhone Recording Apps
In the race for best iPhone recording application, there are over a dozen contestants but few finalists. After surveying a handful, we're placing Griffin's iTalk and Zarboo's SpeakEasy in the winner's circle. While neither application is flawless, both get kudos for interface design, ease of use and file tagging.

Apple's iPhone emerges as gaming platform
Apple's iPhone has emerged as a serious videogame platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to handheld consoles.

Stanford to publish free iPhone course on iTunes U
Stanford University will be publishing a video podcasts and slides from its popular "iPhone Application Programming" course on iTunes U for free to the general public, beginning this week.


Radeon HD 4890: First Benchmarks Rather Disappointing

The NDA ended yesterday for the RAdeon HD 4890, and several dedicated websites have flooded the net with numerous tests, all aiming to demonstrate if the Radeon HD 4890 is the expected killer graphic card.

As a reminder, it features a higher clocked GPU (100 MHz) and memory (75 MHz) when compared to the Radeon HD 4870. Performance are globally in line the clock frequency difference or gain, however the card seems to be rather noisy. this might be the cost to pay for a card with a high potential to be overclocked (most card tested have reached 1 GHz for the GPU).

we are currently working on a procedure to flash such card to make it working in a Mac by using the ROM EFI from the Mac Radeon HD 4870. It was so far unsuccessful, we are still working on it.

It seems that the retailed version of the Radeon HD 4870 is still blocked to 4-5 weeks shipping delay on the Apple Store... problem with stocks or production?



Is Microsoft preparing an iPhone version of its Office Suite?

According to Eweek, quoting Stephen Elop, director of Microsoft Professional Division, Microsoft might be offering in the future an Office Suite dedicated to the iPhone. IT will of course be a reduced version with less features, but one would be able to edit files.
It is rather amazing how Microsoft is able to close its eyes on past or on-going conflicts or fights with Apple when there is an opportunity to get market share on a new growing market, as they were not able to create it. Such suite will most likely be rather expensive and not be free or only cost the usual few USD as most of iPhone apps.



Woz to Star in "Footloose" Remake
Dancing with the Stars was only the beginning...

Microsoft optimistic about Office making its way to iPhone
Microsoft still holds aspirations of delivering a version of its leading Office suite capable of running on the iPhone but needs a bit more time to get it all sorted out.


Palm Pre Continues to Generate Interest at CTIA Mobile
In the minds of many, the unreleased Palm Pre may be the biggest potential threat to Apple's growing iPhone marketshare. Announced at CES, the Palm Pre is an entirely new platform developed by Palm to replace their long-running Palm OS.
<b...

Microsoft Still Hoping to Bring Office to iPhone?
TechCrunch reports on comments made by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft's Business Division, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco that suggest that Microsoft is still exploring ways to bring its Office suite of applications to the iPhone.<p class...

A Miraculous Product to Turn SD in HD

ArcSoft Inc announced to have developed an unique process to upscale SD source into an almost HD format. The upscaling is a procedure aiming to increase the resolution of an image or a video.

their application used algorithm to expand missing video/image contents of the SD source to upscale it. The price of the application alone is 89.99 USD, and 119.99 USD when it is bundled with a NVidia card able to speed up the process. This is not a real-time treatment, and if you want to upscale a video saved on a DVD, you will have to copy the DVD contain on your HD to be able to treat it.
Of course, the marketing points are pretending miraculous result, however nobody nor any system is able to create the missing information in the SD source, so it is only extrapolation, and you will never turn a DVD in to Blu-ray, except if it is only based on simple geometrical figures...

 


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