iPhone 2.0: Zoom and Rotate Videos
Posted on 11 June 2008 in Videos, iPhone | No Comments »
Some of the features of the upcoming new version of the iPhone’s firmware.
Some of the features of the upcoming new version of the iPhone’s firmware.
The final version has finally been released, this new version has a great new feature, it gives you the ability to save flash animations like the ones you see in YouTube or Daily Motion.
This is a surprise, since it wasn’t enabled in the beta version of Real Player! Now I understand better why CosmoPod needs you to have Real Player installed!
Download Real Player 11 here.
You can easily install an application on a jailbroken iPhone, but a few number of apps is really worth mentionning.
MxTube is simply destined to directly download and watch YouTube videos on your iPhone.
It combies stability & ease of use.
Even its icon is gorgeous!
To try it, just search “MxTube” on Installer and you’ll get it!
This is the NEXT internet revolution!
Probably inspired by Konfabulator (Yahoo Widgets), Apple’s Dashboard and the iPhone web applications, this new technologies are impressive! Based on some runtime environments, Adobe Air and Google App Engine are like some “OS” inside your operating system, based on native web applications.
I personally have only tried Adobe Air, and I’m very impressed by the results, especially with AOL Videos (as you can see it in the screenshot):

As you can see, the application is beautiful, and runs flawlessly!
The applications are so easy to install (Adobe Air), here’s for example the eBay Adobe Air application’s page:

Better: once installed, the application goes in your Applications folder just like a regular one, and man.. how fast they launch!!!
Another screenshot of eBay Desktop:

More? The site of AOL Music - Top 100 Videos is about 900 kb (less than a Dashboard Widget)!
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A new version of messenger for Mac is available.
Good news: it finally supports video-conference.
Bad news: video is only accessible for Microsoft Office Communications Server users.
You can get it here
Mac Os X users can use Skype, iChat or aMsn to video-chat with buddies.
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This video covers the following tips:
Flickr’s turn to get into the embedded videos market, with its new service for artists: Flickr Videos beta! Videos can be only 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size for the moment, but they will probably increase this small size of course!
Flickr, which was acquired by Yahoo in March 2005, defined the concept of photo sharing, but has been slow to extend the service into the video world. In the meantime, Google’s YouTube has become the primary destination for video sharing, capturing one out of every three of the online videos in the U.S., according to comScore Media Metrix