Oh, it's on now - "Moviestar" is a go
Take that, Silverlight. Adobe's "Moviestar" version of the Flash Player addresses some now-former shortcomings.[Read More]
Posted at 07:23AM Aug 21, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Interactive | Comments[7]
Horn tootin' time
If you haven't seen the piece yet, I ran a bunch of benchmarks testing the Mac and Windows versions of After Effects CS3 on the same Intel Mac hardware, and the results have been posted. Nothing surprising, considering that AE on the Mac has historically lagged behind its Windows counterpart, and it's just the same old same old. Disappointing, though not unexpected.
Anyway, check out the full article if you're so inclined.
Posted at 09:32PM Aug 01, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Motion Graphics | Comments[5]
And so it begins
Over five years ago I wrote a commentary piece bitching about OS fanatics (archived here if you care for the additional context), in which the following sentence appeared:
I'd hate to think of [OS fanaticism] progressing to something like a Mac cult deciding to wipe Redmond, Washington off the map because they thought Steve Jobs put some sort of hidden message in Mac OS X.
Now comes word of a man in New Zealand running down a woman at a church, jumping out of the vehicle with his laptop, and shouting Steve Jobs's name. Clearly, this is only the start of the larger OS wars, as apparently those Methodists were all Windows users and had to be dealt with first. I suggest Microsoft beef up security around its campus, as I was obviously prescient in my earlier piece. I guess those hidden messages in OS X took a little longer to filter down to the faithful than I originally thought.
At any rate, I'm sure the Mac haters out there will have a field day with this one. I hope that poor woman pulls through.
Posted at 02:54PM Jul 24, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple | Comments[7]
Conditional AppleScript as a sanity saver
Let's go through two very specific scenarios to see if some conditional AppleScript might cure what ails us. [Read More]
Posted at 01:42PM Jul 17, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple | Comments[3]
The circle is now complete
So I'm finally able to break through the thick cloud of iHype (actually, it's been a flood of fairly intense projects landing at once) and finally post again, so I'll make it a quick one while there's a break in the weather. Adobe has announced the availability of the CS3 Production Premium (the one with After Effects, Premiere, etc.) and Master Collection (a.k.a. "the whole enchilada") bundles, so if you've been waiting, well, I suppose you need wait no further. Press release here.
Now back to the regular stream of iPhone-related posts choking teh intarwebs.
Posted at 04:43AM Jul 02, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Software | Comments[0]
The golden oldies of 3D software
As an exercise in taxing the furthest reaches of my rapidly decaying grey matter, behold my attempt at naming every 3D program I've ever used. [Read More]
Posted at 09:45PM Jun 19, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in 3D | Comments[7]
Anyone else sick of the iPhone?
iPhone this, iPhone that. It's seemingly all iPhone, all the time these days, from the moment it was introduced back at (non)Macworld in January. Here we are, with two weeks to go until the iPhone is available, and the hype is in overdrive. [Read More]
Posted at 11:40PM Jun 15, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple | Comments[10]
Seriously... how wrong is this?
I'm sure the novelty of this will wear off by lunchtime (indeed, most of it already has), but I just had to get a screen capture of this. It's the Safari 3 public beta for Windows, running on an XP VM in Parallels Desktop's coherence mode on Mac OS X. Couple more layers of this and I think I could travel through time.
So, the question is this: how many times does hell need to freeze over before it stops being a big deal?
Posted at 09:05AM Jun 12, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple | Comments[0]
Monday Miscellany
Couple things caught my eye today, so let's cram 'em all together. [Read More]
Posted at 03:39PM Jun 11, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in In the News | Comments[0]
Where's the user-swappable hard drive?
OK, so the new MacBook Pros are out, and there's a lot to like. But lost in all the enthusiasm over the backlit LED display and the new graphics cards is the fact that there still doesn't seem to be any easy access to the hard drive bay. That's a big reason why I'm holding onto my plain ol' MacBook (Amateur? Anti-pro?), because it is beyond trivial (and won't void the warranty) to add a higher-capacity SATA drive when the need arises. I'm sure there would be some tricky engineering involved to put the MacBook Pro's hard disk in a place where it would be user-accessible, but I can't really even consider one without it, despite the need for at least marginally faster graphics performance out of my mobile machine.
Maybe next time... dammit.
Posted at 10:50AM Jun 08, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple | Comments[0]
