Screen Movie Recorder… You want to record movies of what happens on your screen in a simple click? You want to be able to record any selected region of your screen? You want to record them as QuickTime movies to replay them with QuickTime Player on Macintosh and Windows?

Then Screen Movie Recorder is what you need!
Screen Movie Recorder allows you to record in a QuickTime movie what happens on your screen.

• It records in a QuickTime movie what happens on your screen.
• You can set the number of frames per second of the record.
• You can select the region to record and make it fixed or follow the mouse.
• It appears in the right side of the menu bar.
• It doesn’t need any installation which makes it very easy to use.
• It is available in Basque, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and many other languages.

Read the whole documentation for more details.

VDMX5 was created from the ground up to meet the demands of realtime video performance. Built around a robust data processing architecture it was designed to be used with whatever hardware - or software - you’ve got available. VDMX is a software based, media processing environment that lets you achieve stunning effects in real time. By linking together and controlling VDMX modules, you build your own virtual video studio, which is equally adept at event production, post production and motion design.

Following in the footsteps of audio software trends, video software and hardware are now fast enough to compete with expensive hardware boxes for doing real-time SD and HD mixing and FX processing. Using your Macintosh, you can achieve astonishing results that are infinitely more flexible than dedicated hardware, for a fraction of the cost. VDMX not only saves you money on hardware, but also saves time. Because of its real time architecture and a control design which encourages creative exploration, you can count on VDMX to get better results faster than working with timelines.

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Google Hacks 1.7.0.1

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What is Apple’s upcoming Brick? A cheap desktop PC (we think)

The word on the street is that Apple’s Brick has been designed to break Windows. This brainy deduction comes from macenstein. Anyhow, what we think is that it has to be an entry-level computer. There’s no way that Apple can take a significant market share from Windows’if they don’t have a low-priced vehicle to drive market adoption.

Now, if we are talking about low-price, I suspect that this would be a desktop machine (a redesigned Mac-mini?), because Apple still needs a decent level of processing power to create a user experience added-value. Granted, it could also be a cheap laptop, but I don’t think that Apple will play the Nettop game - at least not until they have a special (light) version of Mac OS X. Well may be they do, but right now, nothing indicates it. Apple did say that their margins would suffer from new products introduction… (photo source)

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Lighthouse Cams 2.5 - View lighthouse webcams in the USA.

Lighthouse Cams widget to view lighthouse webcams in the USA from the East Coast, Great Lakes, and Western US. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Brought you you by Travel Widgets, the most tech savvy travel site on the internet featuring dozens of widgets and iphone web apps to help book travel and track the latest travel deals. Book hotels, air, car rentals, cruises and show tickets and activities. Save on air and hotel packages.

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WebSMSLib 1.0.9a - Send SMS from your carrier

WebSMSLib is a nice alternative to send SMS from your carrier’s web site. It automates all the boring stuff. It’s easy as the cell phone: compose, click, sent!

It gives you one-click access to your mobile contacts from the Address Book, remember recents destination and link destination numbers with used accounts.
WebSMSLib also support multiple accounts for each operator and you it supports CAPTCHA’s.

WebSMSLib is a cocoa-objectivec port of famous WebSMS Widget for your dashboard. It will also be available soon for iPhone.

Released under an open source license, it can be extended to support new carriers writing a plugin. A thoroughly commented template lets you create your own plugin in a minute (or you can convert existing WebSMS Widget plugins).

For an updated list of supported carriers take a look here.

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How To: Set up LAMP Server Under OS X

For development and testing reasons, I wanted to set up a local server on my Mac Pro so that I could operate a local copy of PCMech.com. I thought I would document how I went about it for the benefit of others down the road.

The easiest method to set up a quick LAMP server under OS X is to use MAMP. MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Now, both Apache and PHP do come bundled with OS X, but you’re going to get into command line hell if you want to set it up. MAMP is much easier because you just download, drag to the Applications folder, and you’re done.

Once you’ve done this, let’s do the following:

1. Navigate to the new MAMP folder and start the MAMP app.
2. Change any preferences you might want to change, but otherwise go ahead and click ‘Start Servers’.
3. Click on ‘Open Start Page’ and your default web browser will load up the default homepage at localhost. You will see a menu of options, too, because MAMP has PHPMyAdmin and other utilities built right in.

Being that MAMP is completely independent, it does not run in the background. So, you’ll need to start up MAMP like any other application in order for your server to be operational. To remove MAMP, just drag the MAMP folder to Trash. No config files for OS X are altered, so a simply drag to Trash means everything is gone.

To work with any files, you will need to place your website files into the ‘htdocs’ sub-folder off of the MAMP folder. Yes, this means your website files reside in the Applications folder which is  odd. But, this is how MAMP maintains its independent nature.

Lastly, you might want to get command line access to MySQL so that you can run MySQL commands via Terminal. For instance, I needed to import the PCMech database into my local database and it was way too large to be imported via PHPMyAdmin. The tedious way would be to manually split up your SQL file. The much easier way is to set up the MAMP version of MySQL to be able to take commands via Terminal. To do so, execute the following commands in Terminal:

sudo mkdir /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chown _mysql /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chmod 777 /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Once that is done, you can import an SQL file via the following command via Terminal:

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -hlocalhost -uroot -proot [DBNAME] < ‘/Users/[USER]/Documents/Database Backups/[NAME OF SQL FILE].sql’

Replace [DBNAME] with the name of your local database, [USER] with your username under OS X, and [NME OF SQL FILE] with whatever the file name is for your SQL backup from which you want to restore. You’ll want to make sure the file path for your SQL file is correct, too. I use a folder called ‘Database Backups’, but that’s me.

With this, you should be good to go. I now have a copy of PCMech.com running locally on my Mac.

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inTone | Matrix 1.1.1 - Turns your computer into a powerful effect processor.

inTone | Matrix turns your computer into a powerful effect processor, handling up to 32 independent audio channels. It can be connected to auxes and inserts of your mixing console or used as independent mixer and patchbay.

Highlights:

• Any computer with a multichannel audio interface may serve as several multi-effect processors in parallel and serial chaining.
  
• Hardware effects, software instruments and effects, 3rd party plug-ins and ReWire applications can be connected to inTone, integrated in one system.

• Quick and easy selection of presets, high sound quality of the included effects.
  Using inTone Matrix with a mixing console:

• Aux connections: Use any software effects as Aux effects for live mixing
• Inserts: Use any software effects as Insert effects for live mixing
• Controlling hardware by MIDI: Use inTone as powerful MIDI control center. Any hardware effect modules with MIDI program change capability (or even with assignable MIDI controllers) can be handled the same way as software effects - under full control with inTone Matrix.
• Super fast configuration changes. No searching for preset files, just one-click or one MIDI command reconfigures the system.
  Using inTone Matrix for live processing without a mixer:
  
• Inserts: Use any software effects as Aux effects for live mixing
  
• Built-in mixing and routing. The mixing levels as well as the input to output channel mapping is stored in inTone programs, they can be retrieved by one click or by a MIDI program change, just as snapshots on HW mixers do. The saved setups may be rearranged in included inSpector application and new preset banks with desired selections are easy to be created.
  
• Patchbay function. If you don’t need effect processing, inTone Matrix can be used as a patchbay. Without effects, the channel reconfigurations are so fas to ease your practicing. Add any music contents to inTone playlists.
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  CamSpinner 2.0 - Publish a webcam on a web site, and more.

  Posted by admin

  September 4, 2008

  CamSpinner is a web cam utility that lets users publish images from a web cam on a site, capture still images and record movies using iSight and other QuickTime compatible cameras.

  CamSpinner features:

  • Automatic uploads of images with FTP
  • Built-in page templates
  • Custom on-line/off-line messages
  • Webcam history
  • AppleScript support
  • Support for OS X Keychain
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