MacHouse Releasing Additional 4 Rich Media Themes

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About 15 hours ago, we have released 4 additional themes for our Rich Media Services. Hopefully, there will be more themes available soon.

The last 2 themes are prepared for online ads. The size of #011 Scroll (leaderboard) is 728 x 90 pixels. It’s a common horizontal ad size used by advertisers. And the size of #012 Scroll (skyscraper) is 160 x 600 pixels. An implementation example is shown at the left bottom of the page (with a 5-second start delay). Although the size is big, it’s not widely used because it’s hard to display text vertically. Continue reading →

MacHouse Rich Media Video Store Opens

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“Insert a few lines to the video that you pick.” That’s what MacHouse Rich Media Video Store is all about. So far, there are 8 themes. Pick any of them and specify a few lines that you want to insert to the video. Then we will deliver your video in QuickTime (.mov) after compressing it in H.264 (or Animation upon your request).

We use various software programs including Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Soundtrack Pro and Boris Red to create QuickTime introduction clips.

Do you need a short introductory clip for your DVD? How about converting it into a Flash video and using it on your website? Continue reading →

Roxio Releasing Toast Titanium 9.0.2 Update

Roxio Toast 9 Titanium Mac






TOKYO (MacHouse) – The developer of popular file backup software for Mac has released a software update for Toast Titanium 9. According to Roxio, 9.0.2 update will resolve





  • “a number of encoding issues related to high-definition source content and creation of Blu-ray video discs”
  • the “situation where high-definition DVDs would not play back on PlayStation 3”
  • “a number of TiVo related audio/video sync issues”





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    Software Review: WhoIs Analyzer Pro (Mac & Windows)

    WhoIs Analyzer Pro Mac Windows
    Mac software review

    As the name suggests WhoIs Analyzer Pro, which is available for Mac OS and Windows OS, lets the user to look up WhoIs information on a particular domain. This introduction will probably not convince anyone that he or she needs it beyond what they already have. For example, Mac OS comes with Network Utility. There are a couple of features that might convince you that WhoIs Analyzer is better than Network Utility. No. 1, you can look up network company’s WhoIs with its autonomous system number (ASN). No. 2, you can save WhoIs information in HTML.

    What is WhoIs information, anyway? If you don’t run a website, you may not know what it is. Simply stated, it’s just a domain registration and nothing else. When you register a domain, your domain registrar requires that you provide your address and phone number. And this information will be freely accessible through InterNIC, an organization operated by ICANN. ICANN is a private organization licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Continue reading →

    Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac – Transferring Data from 2004 to 2008

    Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac

    The objective of this 5-minute video tutorial is to show how to transfer mail data from Entourage 2004 to 2008. This short tutorial may be beneficial to those who want to reinstall OS X 10.4 or to newly install OS X 10.5 before installing Microsoft Office 2008. Anyhow, you should back up certain files before installing Entourage 2008 if you already have Entourage 2004. Continue reading →