Squared 5 has introduced a beta version of its popular Mac freeware title MPEG Streamclip. There have been a few major fixes including H.264 compatibility with iPod, better timecode modification and more.
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Apple has reported at its own website that a small number of Video iPods that have been shipped after September 12 are found infected by a particular computer virus. This computer virus is identified as RavMonE.exe virus, which only infects computers on Windows OS.
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For the past several months, many web hosting companies have increased their disk space and amount of monthly bandwidth. Nowadays, you don’t want to accept a deal that won’t give you at least 50 GB of disk space and 1 terabyte of monthly bandwidth allowance. So we’ve compared a dozen major web hosting providers to see graphically which companies offer good deals and which don’t.
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Comparing the two screenshots (100% JPEG compression) below, you may notice some difference between the two. The one on the right looks better while the one on the left looks a little bit washed out. (If necessary, download them by right-mouse-clicking on the screenshots.) These screenshots both come from the same source. They both come from the projection of the same QuickTime VTC we have previously produced. The difference depends on how we played back the video file. The one on the left is from Safari, and the one on the right is the projection of the same video on Firefox. Continue reading
Garageband Basics for Music Dummies #3: Mixing Music
You know what Garageband is. It’s a free music mixing application that comes with Mac OS X. It’s like iMovie and iDVD, so Garageband is not a professional application.
Mixing music is astonishingly easy with Garageband. But if you don’t know anything about music, you may wonder if you are actually on the right track, right? With this ‘Garageband Basics for Music Dummies’ series, we are hoping to help you get to know Garageband more closely. This series is designed only for music dummies who are not very familiar to the music theory but want to learn how music mixing works. Don’t get us wrong. MacHouse is not an expert in music mixing. Continue reading