FilmFlex launches ‘download to rent’ movie service with Film4oD in the UK

FilmFlex Movies, one of Europe’s largest movies-on-demand services, has today announced the launch of adownload to rentoption onFilm4oD, Film4’s online video-on-demand (VOD) service. The download to rent service lets users save movies to their computer, meaning that Film4oD viewers can watch films offline for the first time. Film4oD was launched as an online streaming service in November last year, and now has more than 50,000 registered users. With the expansion into offline viewing, it hopes to increase its user-base allowing those with low bandwidth or those on the move to access the movies too....

3 min · 468 words · Mary Zimmerman

Filter and Visualize Data in Seconds with Silk

If you’ve ever spent hours combing Wikipedia for information about a topic, opening up tab after tab to compare different pages, then you’ll appreciateSilk. Silk is an app for the web that wants to help you collect, sort and view the information that you need without making you comb through the data yourself. Think of it as an intern that knows everything about a given subject and can deliver that information to you with minimal effort....

3 min · 597 words · Lisa Hernandez

Final Cut Pro X should be capable of importing FCP7 XML projects

It turns out that one of the most talked about omissions ofFinal Cut Pro X, the ability to import Final Cut Pro 7 projects, is already at least partially coded into the release, it’s just not enabled yet. MacMagazine.br has beenpoking aroundinside FCPX and has discovered code that enables FCP7 importing,reports9to5Mac. The code, while present in FCPX, is not yet enabled in the shipping version. This means that turning it on could be enabled by a simple patch that wouldn’t require extensive changes to the application....

2 min · 362 words · Veronica Evans

Final WP7 Mango build leaks

The title says it all, folks: The RTM version of Mango (build 7720), something that we have all been waiting for, has leaked. If you want to get it, for whatever reason, headhere. Instructions on installation can be foundhere. Now, we are going to tell you that you should not upgrade your phone to Mango unofficially, even though you probably will not listen to us. Back in the days when Microsoft was having a hellish time getting NoDo to the masses, a fair number of people simply forced the upgrade....

2 min · 265 words · Travis Dominguez

Finally I’ll be able to fly a helicopter with my iPhone

I’ve been chomping at the bit to see a product like this since the moment that Apple opened up API’s for developers to use external accessories and IR remotes for the iPhone immediately started showing up on the market. I’m a huge model copter freak and this new Kickstarter project has got me all sorts of excited. TheiRemocois a remote control helicopter set that comes with a controller that you attach to the dock connector of your iPhone or iPad....

2 min · 363 words · Ariana Clark
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