Apple introduced a completely rewritten iMovie in the iLife ’08 suite earlier this week. But, while the new iMovie streamlines production of simple videos, some users are also finding that Apple dropped their favorite features from iMovie HD, the previous version. iMovie ’08 eliminates timeline-style editing, which can make it more difficult to do things […]

USA Network announced today the network’s first independent digital media initiative, Didja.com¬†- a site that the network promises will be all ads. According to USA Network, “Didja.com is a social networking destination that reinvents the commercial viewing experience by celebrating advertising as entertainment.” According to us, they should have put something better on their site […]

The NewsMarket today launched a new service, VideoCaf√©,¬†that lets bloggers browse and embed free video content from some of the world’s leading organizations. VideoCaf√© is designed to provide bloggers the same access to video content that television and large media sites have had in the past.¬†Initial footage available for embedding into blogs comes from Google, […]

Apple today introduced an updated version of Garageband as part of the iLife ’08 personal media suite. Here’s our pick for the top seven new features or improvements for podcasters: Multi-take recording – this new feature should make it easier for anyone that has a perfectionist side to get the perfect take without a lot […]

Apple today unveiled a new all-in-one iMac line, featuring 20- and 24-inch widescreen displays encased in aluminum and glass enclosures. The new iMac line features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and a new, ultra-thin aluminum Apple Keyboard, built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing and iLife ‚Äô08. The 20-inch iMac now starts at […]

Apple today introduced iLife ‚’08, featuring a major new version of iPhoto and a “completely reinvented” iMovie. iPhoto 08 automatically organizes photo libraries into Events that let users more easily manage their growing photo collections, and iMovie ‚08 introduces a new way for users to quickly make movies and share them online. Both iPhoto and […]

Apple today introduced new versions of its all-in-one iMac computers and an update to its iLife suite. With the updates, Apple did not offer any big surprises, but instead enhanced its already comprehensive lineup of hardware and software for media publishing. Updated iMacs Apple CEO Steve Jobs first showcased the updated iMacs, which now come […]

Publishers interested in making money with Internet media have advertising trends on their side. According to Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private equity firm dedicated to the media,¬†Internet advertising, including pure-play websites and digital extensions of traditional media, will replace newspapers as the largest ad medium in 2011. ¬† VSS believes that people are¬†shifting their […]

Author William Gibson, whose novels have predicted the social implications of Internet technology and the rise of faux-documentary video sensations like LonelyGirl15, offers his vision of how the Internet has wrapped itself around all media, whether its online or offline: The thing that has affected me most directly during Pattern Recognition, and subsequently, is the […]

A developer, not satisfied with using his iPhone for podcasts, video podcasts, YouTube videos and phone calls, has ported the InfoNES core to the iPhone, along with Mario, Zelda, and other NES roms. While it demonstrates the¬†computing and gaming capabilities of the iPhone,¬†even the developer¬†admits that the use of virtual controllers for gaming “…while cute, […]