Apple just officially unveiled the new version of the Final Cut suite at the Final Cut Pro Supermeet during the National Association of Broadcasters trade show 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new version, called Final Cut Pro X, was rebuilt from ground up to run on 64-bit. The new Final Cut software, according toMacStories, is touted as “revolutionary as the first version” from 1999. It’s a 64-bit complete rewrite of the widely used pro video editing software that is based on technologies like Cocoa, Core Animation, Open CL, Grand Central Dispatch, which can utilize up to 8 cores, and it focuses on image quality....

Apple has today updatediBooksfor iPhone and iPad to version 1.3, adding narration features and a performance boost. The new “read-aloud” feature is intended to help children to read, according to Apple’s patch notes, and works with selected children’s books. Unlike the Amazon Kindle, which uses text-to-speech narration, iBooks read-aloud supports only human-recorded voice tracks. By the sounds of things, it’s much like the read-aloud books available in brick and mortar stores, which uses pre-recorded voices to read sections of text to your child as they point an electronic pen at the words....

With the release of iOS 5 comes a slew of upgrades to nearly every single Official Apple App (say that one 10x fast). Everything from the Apple Remote down to iWorks has received some sort of upgrade, easing users into the new integration in time with the launch of Apple’s new operating system. Among the popular enhancements are obvious bug fixes and additional performance improvements, while some updates lean heavily on iCloud integration, allowing you to store all of your media in the official Apple cloud — be sure tocheck out our full iCloud explanation here....

Apple’s new Macbookshave arrived. Earlier today, the store went down whilst Apple employees furiously set about readying its store to feature the new Thunderbolt-enabled Macbook notebooks. It came back up a couple of hours later, much to the joy of Apple fanboys. One thing that people might have missed is thepreview pagefor Apple’s upcoming operating system refresh; Mac OS X Lion. That page received an update too, featuring new screenshots of mail....

Apple has updated itsonline storeand finally confirmed rumours that it would update its 11.6 and 13.3-inch MacBook Air models, introducing faster processors, increased storage capacity and more memory across devices. The new MacBook Air modelsdo away with the Intel Core 2 Duo processors and introduce Intel’s Dual-Core i5 and i7 chips and introduce a backlit keyboard. The 11.6-inch base model incorporating a 1.6 GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and 64GB of flash storage starting at $999....