Apple today announced that Steve Jobs has died: We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts […]

Microsoft has announced that the Zune media player is officially dead: We recently announced that, going forward, Windows Phone will be the focus of our mobile music and video strategy, and that we will no longer be producing Zune players. So what does this mean for our current Zune users? Absolutely nothing. Your device will […]

This is a demo of the Makayama Movie Mount For iPad 2 – a unique (and slighly bizarre) hardware accessory designed to improve movies made on the iPad 2. The Movie Mount lets you use tele- and wide angle conversion lenses, use a tripod, attach microphones and lights. Features: Attached a tripod for stable shots, pan & […]

Cinemek has introduced Storyboard Composer HD, a storyboarding app for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Here’s what they have to say about it: Create compelling real time pre-visualizations and storyboards of your ideas on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch with Storyboard Composer HD. Storyboard Composer HD is the world’s first mobile storyboarding app […]

Apple has updated GarageBand for iPad, adding several cool new features, including new audio output options, Apple Loop support and copy and paste for audio files. Here’s what’s new in GarageBand for iPad 1.0.1: Support for audio output over AirPlay, Bluetooth devices and HDMI with the Apple Digital AV Adapter. Import of AIFF, WAV, CAF audio […]

This is an interesting download for iOS users – iMotion HD, a free time-lapse & stop-motion app for iOS. Features: HD 720p capture and export Universal binaries iPhone / iPad / iPodTouch 4 capture modes (time-lapse, manual, wifi remoted*, microphone) Portrait and landscape orientations supported Useful capture tools (Onion skin, Grid, Manual Focus*, …) Video and photo […]

Here’s a video review of Fire 2, the latest version of the iOS field recording app.

Back when the iPad was introduced, we asked “Where is the PageMaker of iBooks?” Tablets are fantastic new platform, with incredible potential for revolutionizing publishing. But there have not been, so far, tools that bring multimedia publishing for tablets to everyone. Wired has a post today about Push Pop Press – a new digital publishing platform […]

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has some interesting comments about his earlier podcasting company, Odeo, podcasting and how it led to the creation of Twitter, in this month’s Wired. Odeo was a startup that offered podcast directory and search services. Though well-funded, it was effectively dead shortly after launching, because Apple added podcasting support in iTunes. […]

Apple has released an update to Garageband for Mac, version 6.02, that improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues. Though Apple isn’t hyping this update, it’ could be an important one for Mac-based iPad users. The release brings support for opening projects imported from GarageBand for iPad – so you can start […]