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Good sites for creative professionals

Good sites for creative professionals

This is a nice list of creative pro blogs put together by James Dempsey over at Macworld.

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Soundbooth Beta 2 Now Available

Harts Audition: Soundbooth Beta 2 Now Available

Adobe Labs Soundbooth site

Cool Edit Pro remains my all-time favorite tool for audio editing. It was almost worth keeping a PC around to use it when I switched over to mac. I’m freaking ecstatic that the CEP guys (now Adobe Audition) have finally produced a mac version. Now I can finally blow off the CEP wanna-be soundtrack on my mactel. I’m still bummed that I won’t be able to use it on my G5 though…

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This Week In Media – Episode 31: 18 Percent Grey

This is a great podcast for digital filmmakers. I particularly liked this week’s episode. They gave their insight into why Apple bought Proximity. Their take was that Apple was looking to counter Avid and Avid’s integration with digital asset management solutions. They also had a great discussion around micro cinemas and social bookmarking of video clips which gave me two great ideas for start-ups. I probably won’t do either of them, but it is nice to be inspired anyway.

This Week In Media

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proximity bought by Apple

This is weird. I’m not sure what Apple is buying. They already have a pretty good single-user DAM story. The market for the workgroup and workflow stuff is pretty tiny. The videoripper isn’t worth purchasing a company for.

What is Apple going after?

proximity

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AppleInsider | Parallels preps major update to Windows virtualization software

AppleInsider | Parallels preps major update to Windows virtualization software

This is oh-so-very-cool. I have to run bootcamp on my mac book pro because I need to be using the full power of the GPU. This won’t completely obliviate that need, but it will mean that I won’t need to install XP twice on my little MBP so that I can pop into Outlook or IE if I need to without restarting. With the new version of Parallels, you can use your bootcamp partition as the root drive of your XP Parallels session. Also cool is that they’ll support other OSes nicely, which means you can drop a linux install on there too easily. This will be awesome for web designers because they won’t need to buy extra machines to validate stuff on. This may even get me back to installing some windows or liinux audio and video stuff again. There is a lot of freeware we mac folk miss out on.

I think this virtualization stuff is progressing exactly the way I want to see it. Next step is to find out how well the Macintels run Vista…

I wonder how long until either Apple or Microsoft buys Parallel Inc. The fact that they are located in Redmond probably speaks more to the fact that they are probably well staffed by former Microsofties than that they made their plan to be acquired at the beginning.

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