Newton’s Lore

ifixit.com takes us inside the iPod nano, 3rd Generation. Also inside the new iPod classic.

The open source XMeeting seems to do a pretty reasonable job for those requiring videoconferencing. Doesn’t seem to support Polycom’s data streams for screen sharing though (and I can’t seem to convince Polycom’s free Windows client to recognise the iSight from within Parallels). XMeeting supports H.323 and SIP, along with some display modes similar to iChat with the images reflecting off the virtual ‘table’ surface, if you’ve got grunty enough graphics hardware.

A lot of people who used features like transitions between scenes, or cool 3rd party plugins in iMovie 6 have been complaining that they can no longer use these things in iMovie 7 (transitions are removed when iMovie 7 imports the projects from iMovie 6 HD).

Conveniently Apple has provided iMovie 6 HD for free download to those who wish to ‘downgrade’ to the original functionality they had. [Edit - According to comments on Macintouch, the downloadable installer will only install if you've got iMovie 7 installed as well]

Apple’s Technote TN2188 details how to export video for use on iPods, Apple TV’s or iPhone.

• QT-Java is now using JNI instead of jdirect. Thus QTJSupport.jar is no longer installed on Windows
• Picts now no longer have negative dimensions on Macs (an endian fix)
• Colour problems related to endianness have been fixed
• Installation can break prebinding and thus all PowerPC only apps that run on Intel Macs (ie it breaks Rosetta). Instructions on fixing this are on Apple’s site.

mostly via the quicktime-java list.

Woohoo, I’ve been invited to give a 3 hour workshop (and a repeat) on our lecture capture solution at X World 2007.

Apple has made the iPhone release date (June 29th) and three iPhone ads available on its website, namely

• Never been an iPod
• How To (use an iPhone)
• Calamari (with “Pirates of the Caribbean” tie-in

If you need it for your next iMovie/iDVD/Final Cut project the iStockPhoto people now offer royalty-free video at iStockVideo.com. Includes footage up to HD resolution.