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  • Me and the iPad: Two Months On

    ipadicusYesterday the new iPad was launched, uber fast, uber sexy and all that jazz. I’ve just had my iPad 2 for about two months now, here’s what I think of it.

    The iPad is something I would never have bought for myself. I have to thank Miller Genuine Draft for giving that to me. In that time though, the two striking things for me were: 1. This is all about media consumption, nothing else. 2. Sometimes you just need a computer.

    Since my iPad arrived I can certainly say I’ve played more games, and got bored of them, than I previously would have. I prefer Angry Birds on my phone, a nice little HTC, I got bored very quickly with it on the iPad. The car driver games I’ve tried, I liked, rotating the iPad for steering. Games wise I also love Temple Run but this is in very small doses, it doesn’t bode well for those with vertigo. The free version of the Sims from the Apple Store is a definite must have, hours of fun gauranteed. (more…)

  • Apple Final Cut Pro X Announced

    Picture Copyright AppleWow, just wow! Apple have finally announced Final Cut Pro X. It’s a complete rebuild of Final Cut Pro 7 which was released in 2009. The dark background is very reminiscent of the Adobe programmes. Where it gets really interesting is that Final Cut X is available for download for $299 from the Mac App Store.

    It will be interesting to see what will happen here. This could change a lot, especially for small independent film makers, a lot of whom said Final Cut Pro was out of their price range, especially when you get Premier Pro in Some of the Adobe packages.

    Have a look at the Mac video here Full details from cnet

  • No Decision Really

    So I’ve been thinking about new computers and laptops.. I really need to get one for college.

    My computers are a tad on the slow side for the visual work I need them to do. Last night I decided I would open up Macromedia Director and make a very short promo for a band I took a few photos of.

    The laptop died! It just couldn’t handle the jpgs I was using. I used 60 something in about 16 seconds of visuals. I was also trying to add some 3d effects on some text, which the laptop didn’t like.

    I saved everything and brought it to the desktop pc – got everything done ok. Saved it as a quicktime movie. Now I’m waiting for it to upload to YouTube.

    Think I might have made ‘the stage’ a little big. 19 seconds, its 98MB and taking 3 hours to upload 🙁 Ooops!

    I had been looking at a couple of different computers, the Samsung N110 a bigger HP one with more RAM. What is important for me is to have one that is fast enough to run video editing software and maybe Cubase along with the Adobe Master Collection. The second thing is to have one I can bring round with me and use. I sometimes get pains in my hands, caused maybe by a type of arthritis, so it would be great for college to have the option of taking notes on a laptop.

    Looking at the options I’ve thought a 13 inch laptop is still small enough to carry around but big enough to do artwork on.

    So looking at everything I’ve decided I’m definitely buying a MacBook Pro. A 13inch with 4GB of Ram is working out at €1400 (with my student reduction). The HP laptop I was looking at was €899.

    No decision really.

    …nessy out!