Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko was just quoted about the iPhone on Apple’s start page. Andy talks about how that happened, his thoughts after enjoying a thirty-minute get-acquainted period with the iPhone and whether the new interface may lead to even more cool new Apple products. Andy also gets in-depth on “the mystery of Leopard,” commenting on the strange lack of any new information on about the next generation of the Mac OS.
MacNotables #706: Andy Ihnatko on the iPhone and “The Mystery of Leopard”
MacVoices #740 – MacVoices at Expo: RadTech’s New Products for 2007
RadTech chief John Grzeskowiak discusses the new products they are focusing on for 2007, including waterproof notebook and iPod accessories so you can listen to your tunes anywhere…even while swimming or underwater. New leather iPod cases from Sweden, new earphones from Westone and new Optex-based items join a well-established line of products that are known for their quality and usability. John also offers listeners a limited-time code for 15% off any order.
MacVoices #739 – MacVoices at Expo: BeLight Software Introduces Home Interior Design Software
In the BeLight Software booth at their very first Macworld, and all the way from the Ukraine, Helen Nersesova, the Belight Vice President of Public Relations discusses the new Live Interior 3D, the program that helps you plan out your home interior without having to move a stick of furniture. Live Interior 3D lets you work with a floor plan view or a 3D modeled representation of your room, placing both building elements such as windows and doors as well as pieces of furniture with drag and drop ease. Change colors, add textures, resize objects and more and you’ll know exactly how your room will look before you start.
MacVoices #738 – MacVoices at Expo: Recosoft Converts PDF Documents to InDesign
Need to do more with your PDFs? Recosoft has you covered. Paul Chadha talks about both their PDF2Office line of software that lets you extract PDF document data so it can be edited in Microsoft Office and introduces their brand new PDF2InDesign product that does the same thing, but imports the information, fully editable, into Adobe InDesign. Find out just how complete the conversion is and more in this interview from the show floor.
MacVoices #737 – MacVoices at Expo: Still Photography in a Video World, Analog vs. Digital Methods and the Artist’s Tools with Academy of Art University Students and Faculty
The second in our two-part conversation at with a group of students and faculty from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco focuses more on the students and their activities. The group discusses how still photography fits in a video world, the challenges of balancing traditional analog methods with new digital techniques for faculty and student alike, the “dog and pony show” aspect of photography, and how the tools an artist uses can be as much of a statement as the art itself.