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Farewell to TV Outputs: S-Vid, Composite Endangered on Mac and PC Alike
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Hey, my Apple IIc at least still has a composite TV out (and nothing else, as it happens). Photo: Daniel Höpfl. It’s long been accepted tradition at VJ events: the...
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MacBook, PC Notebook with No Analog Output? Tested Solutions
So, you’ve got a shiny new MacBook / MacBook Pro — or any number of newer PC notebooks — and suddenly you realize you have no analog video output. Sure, you might be happy to output to VGA/DVI or even...
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Your Display Isn’t Authorized: DRM Flap on New Apple MacBooks
DRM on displays and projectors? Believe it. Apple, like many computer vendors, has added DRM to its new laptops in the form of HDCP (which, bizarrely, stands for “High-bandwidth Digital Content...
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Apple’s 17” MacBook Pro: 3 USB Ports, FW800, Mini DisplayPort, LED Backlight
It’s port talk time again. As I suspected, Apple’s 17” MacBook Pro does get one additional port. You get 3 USB ports and one FireWire 800 port – though this means that, even though there’s almost no...
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Updated $999 White MacBook Becomes Good Budget Choice: 9400M GPU
Photo: Rob DiCaterino. Apple apparently isn’t killing the white, $999, plastic MacBook at the low end of its line any time soon. They’ve even gone so far as to update the model – and that turns out to...
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Images from OFFF: When Designers Make MacBook Graffiti, and Other Pictures...
The OFFF Festival, held last week in Lisbon, Portugal, has to be one of the most visually stimulating places I’ve ever been. Herds of bright-faced, young, handsome European artist boys and girls pack...
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Apple Restores FireWire, Lowers Prices; ExpressCard Now Only on 17”
Apple giveth and Apple taketh – again. FireWire, back on the whole line. First, off, the good news coming out of Apple’s hardware refresh today: FireWire is again on the 13” MacBook, which is now...
View ArticleVJ Video Review: Uncompressed HD Mixing with Matrox MXO2 Mini and Laptops
Matrox MXO2-Mini review for VJs. Uncompressed HD mixing laptop to laptop. from vade on Vimeo. Enough of low-resolution hardware mixing. Our friend Anton aka vade has dreamed for some time of doing...
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Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro; About Those New GPUs, Visualist Advice
As you probably know, Apple refreshed their MacBook Pro line, upgrading the 13″, 15″, and 17″ models to new NVIDIA GPUs and the 15″ and 17″ units to Core i5 and i7 CPUs. It’s a nice refresh for Mac...
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MacBook Pro Revision Updates GPU, adds Thunderbolt, but No New Display...
Photo (CC-BY) DeclanTM. Let’s cut right to the chase on the “speed bump” revision of the MacBook Pro line today: The 13″ model still gets the short end of the stick as far as graphics; it’s actually a...
View ArticleThe real Apple news is that macOS audio should get fixed this month
While everyone is freaking out about headphone jacks on phones, the news this week musicians should really care about is that a badly needed OS update is on its away. Apple quietly set Tuesday, the...
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The new MacBook Pro will work with your gear – if you add adapters
Apple’s new MacBook Pro series – regardless of screen size – ships with four connectors, all of them USB-C. That may lead to some confusion, because these aren’t the USB ports most people know from...
View ArticleVisualists, here’s the info on the GPU in the new Macs, Surface Books
The audiovisual performance is very much alive as a medium. I’m just coming off two festivals full of inspiring, stunning live visuals (alongside installations and virtual reality artworks). (One was...
View ArticleHow expressive input, immersive 3D might make PCs cooler than Macs
“Pro.” “Creative.” They’re words that are repeated so often in computing it’s easy for some people to forget what they mean. By definition, though, if a “professional” is getting paid for their work,...
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Surprise, Final Cut Pro could be the MacBook’s killer feature
Here’s an unexpected twist in the plot: Final Cut Pro, the product that perhaps more than any other earned ire from users for not being “pro,” might be the thing that sells you on the Mac. Why? Final...
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Updates make Logic more pretty, powerful; GarageBand more like Logic
Apple continues to modernize and streamlined its flagship Logic DAW. And for anyone fearing it would turn the app into GarageBand, what you’re getting is quite the opposite – Logic features added to...
View ArticleApple announces that they’re not ready to announce new pro hardware
Apple today summoned a handful of tech reporters to a product lab, essentially to announce that … they were between announcements. Apple’s unusual PR experiment today was to mix mea culpa and product...
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Turn that MacBook Pro Touch Bar into a MIDI controller, free
Let someone else debate whether the Touch Bar is a useful innovation or not. If you’ve got a new MacBook Pro, why not put it to good use? And, in fact, if you think of the Touch Bar as akin to...
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UAD for everybody: Arrow sound box is Thunderbolt, PC or Mac, $499
Universal Audio just brought their DSP platform – and top-notch audio interface tech – to a box that’s Thunderbolt, bus-powered, and under US$500. Here’s the thing: if someone asks you the age-old...
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Serato DJ gets more modern features, no longer requires hardware
Serato’s new software gets support for 64-bit and high-resolution displays – and now you can run it in “practice mode” without having to plug in a controller. Hello, prepping on airplanes. And in very...
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