PDFLink 2, $100 is a fully-integrated Final Cut Pro generator plugin that renders vector content from PDF and Adobe Illustrator files frame by frame, so the image is always razor-sharp regardless of scale, movement, or rotation. Vector content can be seamlessly mixed with QuickTime content, and the geometrics are fully keyframeable using the standard Final Cut Pro interface you already know how to use.

My favorite Internet radio station by far is Pandora. If you never tried Pandora do not waste a moment, go set up a free account and start listening. Pandora is a lot different than other Internet radio stations. Pandora is a music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.

The first thing that you will see when using Pandora is that it is run inside your web browser. PandoraBoy frees you from using your web browser and allows you to control your music with global hotkeys or your apple remote. Additionally, it supports growl notifications so that you always know what your listening to. PandoraBoy is free and open source for OS X users.

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Apple Inc. and The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd. have announced that the parties have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name “Apple.” and apple logos. iTunes next?

“We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks,” said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. “It feels great to resolve this in a positive manner, and in a way that should remove the potential of further disagreements in the future.”

Neil Aspinall, Apple Corps general manager, said that his company looks forward to “many years of peaceful cooperation” with Apple.

The terms of settlement were not disclosed.

Anthony Cumia from the Opie & Anthony Show gets a bit frustrated with a Windows Vista upgrade. So he demonstrates successful Windows Vista installation on his office shredder! Take that Bill Gates.

If you think upgrading Vista is so easy, check out this article from Digit: Windows Vista: why Mac OS X will win.

Adium version 1.0 is released after a long development with tons of new features and bug fixes. Adium is a free application for OS X and my favorite multi-protocol IM client allowing you to chat with others on many of the supported services like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, Lotus Sametime, etc. If you have not seen Adium, I urge you to give it a try.

Adium has Growl support and will install it automatically after asking you. Growl is a notification system, which can displays a small, unobtrusive notification whenever someone sends you a message in Adium. Changes include a redesigned log viewer and improved iTunes support. A full list of changes can be found here.

Now that Windows Vista has made its debut, Bill Gates is in the media to promoting it. Let’s face it the glitzy launch party Microsoft has tagged, “The WOW starts now” has been more of “the YAWN has finally started, and Apple already DID that!” Most tech journalist as well as many main stream media journalists has seen the literal “copy-the-CAT” now out from Redmond. Many of them have been asking Mr. Gates, the richest man in the world, “why upgrade to Vista?” with its very high hardware needs. Many have asked about the obvious “similarities” that Apple has had in OS X for years.

What I find strange is Mr. Gates reaction to some of the reporters. He comes across smug, upset, and sometimes a bit crazy. In recent years I have seen Microsoft’s chairman and founder, get like this when Google is mentioned when he is interviewed. In his latest media rounds, he seems to have really lost it. Why is he worried? Windows Vista will be the most successful, operating systems ever launched. Innovative, NOT! Maybe it was the six billion that his company spent to launch what already existed years before it, OS X. His interview for NEWSWEEK is eye-opening.

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Microsoft Vista’s ‘Wow’ has started! If you are now running Vista and went “WOW, WTF happened to my iTunes,” when you discovered that you could no longer play your iTS purchased items. No problem. Apple has just released the iTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0 which, will repair permissions for important files required by iTunes to play your iTunes Store purchases. I am sure we will see an iTunes update soon to make it “wow” with Windows Vista. For more information about iTunes and Windows Vista, please visit this Apple website.

VisualHub, $23.32 USD (free try it) for OS X bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards. VisualHub allows for easy conversions for most video formats for iPods, PSP, DV, DVD, and others.

VisualHub is based on iSquint and supports batch processing allowing you to place a bunch of jobs in the playlist, set the application to do its magic and go have some coffee while your videos are being converted.

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Skype’s new verison 2.5.0.85 for Mac is quite cool. It allows calls to landline or cell phones for a low fee and audio or video calls from Skype to Skype for free. Skype is cross-platform allowing for connections between Windows PCs and Macs.
The video quality is not bad. But what if you want even higher quality (if you have the bandwidth and computer processing power) on your Mac. Thanks to this tip from the Skype developer site.

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