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Ask Siri about your favorite movies

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 4th, 2012)

People complain about Siri, but Siri is wonderful. Not only is the personal assistant useful, she (or he) has a terrific sense of humor. She is sarcastic and witty when you ask her to marry you and will even tell you a story if you ask her with some persistence. As discovered by The Verge, you ...

iTunes getting a major makeover, slated for October release

by Mel Martin (Sep 12th, 2012)

Love it or hate it, we all spend a lot of time in iTunes on our Macs, iPhones, iPads and what have you. Apple announced a major update for iTunes, calling it "dramatically simpler" for using your own media files, and for navigating the iTunes store. The new iTunes will look like a large grid, ...

MoviePro for the iPhone 4S adds features to the built-in camera

by Mel Martin (Sep 4th, 2012)

If you do a lot of moviemaking on your iPhone, you'll probably want something with extended capabilities. There are plenty of apps to help at various price points and feature sets. Recently-released MoviePro is among the better ones. Although it runs on the iPhone 4 and the iPod touch, you ...

Mac Blu-ray Player software plays HD movies on your Mac

by Mel Martin (Aug 16th, 2012)

Want to play a Blu-ray disc on your Mac? Apple doesn't include Blu-ray as an option, but they are readily available through 3rd parties like Amazon or Other World Computing. You'll also need software to play the disc, which is where the Macgo Blu-Ray Player comes in. I reviewed the Macgo ...

20th Century Fox movies now available via iTunes in the cloud

by Mel Martin (Jul 20th, 2012)

20th Century Fox Studios has made its movies available through iTunes in the Cloud, which allows customers to download purchases to a compatible OS X or iOS device. The deal with Fox comes just as Apple has added the service to 37 countries including Brazil, Hong Kong and Mexico. When iTunes ...

CineXPlayer is a very versatile video app for your iPad

by Mel Martin (Jun 26th, 2012)

CineXPlayer is like a Swiss Army Knife video app for your iPad. It supports many video formats, including AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MP4 and Xvid. Audio formats include Dolby Digital Plus (AC3, eAC3) 5.1 and 7.1 audio support. HD playback at 720P is enabled, as well as subtitles. I especially liked ...

Watch free bad movies on your iOS device with PopcornFlix

by Mel Martin (May 31st, 2012)

I admit it. I'm a bad movie fan. Give me something by Ed Wood, or titles like "Robot Monster" or "Invasion of the Bee Girls" and I'm a happy guy. It's not that I dislike good movies, but the bad ones are entertaining in a kind of strange way. You wonder how such a train wreck was possible. How ...

Apple movie/TV product placement is on the rise

by Steven Sande (May 14th, 2012)

Does it seem like every TV show or movie you've watched recently has a MacBook, iPad, or iPhone in it? There's a reason for that; the cool factor of Apple's product line is resulting in more placements of its products on the big and little screens. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Apple ...

Avengers also wins big on mobile sales with Fandango

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2012)

The Avengers movie did quite well last weekend, hitting number one at the US box office easily, and picking up the biggest domestic opening weekend ever. But it also hit another important record. Fandango reports that The Avengers beat its record for tickets sold via a mobile device. That's ...

Apple to offer filmmaker workshops for Tribeca Film Festival

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2012)

Filmmakers in New York will want to be sure to stop by the West 14th Street and Soho Apple stores beginning April 20th through April 28th. The company is offering a series of filmmaking talks and workshops at the two locations in honor of the Tribeca Film Festival. The Apple Store, West ...

Anime Studio 8.1 is great animation software for beginners

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 29th, 2012)

At Macworld | iWorld 2012, I had the chance to sit down with the folks behind Smith Micro's Anime Studio and discuss the latest update to its Anime Studio animation suite. Anime Studio 8.1 allows support for Wacom multi-touch tablets, the first of its kind for a piece of animation software. ...

Apple updates iTunes Movie Trailers app to work with the Retina Display

by Mike Schramm (Mar 24th, 2012)

Apple released an iTunes Movie Trailers app last year, so you could watch movie trailers from iTunes directly on your iPad, and that app has just been updated with the ability to stream movies at a higher resolution (probably around 1080p, since that's the usual format for these things, but we ...

Walmart to charge $2-$4 to convert DVDs to UltraViolet

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 13th, 2012)

Walmart is expected to announce today that it has entered a partnership with Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Fox to allow consumers to access DVDs they own in UltraViolet's cloud. This will cost between US$2-$4 per DVD, depending on quality. The DVDs will be stamped to ...

More than 100 million using iCloud, now supports movies and TV shows in 1080p

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 7th, 2012)

Tim Cook announced today that more than 100 million are using iCloud. In addition, he announced that iTunes in the cloud will now support movie re-downloads purchased on any device. Movie and TV shows now support 1080p, to go along with the new Apple TV just announced. ...

Apple TV now offers Genius recommendations for movies, TV shows

by Chris Rawson (Feb 3rd, 2012)

A silent update to the backend has introduced Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows to the Apple TV. No user action is required to access the new feature, as it's not part of a device firmware update. Instead, Apple has updated its own servers to send this information to the Apple TV from ...