It´s Easter soon and we’ll all be eating chocolate all weekend. So to help you relax, we have a solution: MediaCentral 2.7. Zero calories but so pleasant.
MediaCentral 2.7 includes a overhauled TV engine, which offers better picture quality and faster channel switching. It also offers updated online content and you can now access (again) your recordings made with The Tube.
Last weekend equinux hosted the third CocoaDevHouse Munich. Nearly 70 Cocoa developers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany joined the sessions that Martin Ott, member of equinux’ development team, already organized. Wanna see some of his snapshots at flickr? See you next year…
Well, MediaCentral has just one aim: Your entertainment. If you start up the application right now, you’ll find even more choices for your entertainment. We’ve added a lot of science and technology video streams, documentations, podcasts and webradio-stations to our ever-growing media database. And you’ll also notice that there are a lot of new movie trailers as appetizers for your next visit to the movies. Oh… I forgot, with MediaCentral you already have your cinema at home. Well, enjoy the expanded entertainment offerings. And remember! If you find cool new video or audio feeds, that you would like to share with other MediaCentral users, let us know where to find them .
equinux’ software department just received a valuable addition to its team. On August 1st the former CodingMonkey, Martin Ott started his position as a full time developer for equinux in Munich. Martin is not only known as one of the creators of the widely used SubEthaEdit, but he is also known by his involvement with the online project, ‘My Dream App’. Martin holds a degree in computer science and studied at the Technical University of Munich under Professor Brügge - head of the Chair of applied computer science, as well as an avid Mac enthusiast.
“We are thrilled that another experienced Mac developer joins our team and we’re looking forward to elaborate a lot of innovations with Martin”, says equinux CEO Till Schadde.
Even though The Tube is just a bit younger, it can still teach MediaCentral a trick or two. MediaCentral 2.6.2 now uses the same TV engine as The Tube. This allows MediaCentral to perform better on G4- and G5-machines because it uses the Altivec-Engine for Deinterlacing.
We’ve also improved the search for TV channels and the audio track selection now works more reliably. Czechs will be happy to see that MediaCentral 2.6.2 will show the channel information of the running TV shows now correctly, and we’ve also fixed an issue that caused picture freezes from time to time on PowerPC-based Macs with G4 and G5-processors. If you haven’t yet gotten the chance to get in touch with our ultimate media centre solution for the Mac, you should catch up. It lets you do a little more than just play with YouTube and your iTunes and iPhoto stuff. But don’t forget about bringing your own soft drinks and popcorn - it’s not included.
The 2.6.2 update is free for every registered MediaCentral 2.x user. Enjoy!
Did you already go see Angelina’s new movie, “A Might Heart”? If not, you can check out the trailer in MediaCentral. In fact, you can check out all the newest trailers in MediaCentral. We’ve recently updated the whole database of movie trailers, so you can get a taste of all the movies you want to see. Enjoy…
After three days at WWDC every developer can spell i-p-h-o-n-e forwards and backwards. Apple is heavily promoting development for its upcoming cell phone and wants every developer to polish up on their Web 2.0 skills in order to build something for the iPhone. Maybe the guys in Cupertino are just a little bit nervous about their first step into the world of mobile communications? Anyhow we’re enjoying the conference and ourselves as you can see in our latest pictures.
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It wasn’t that much Steve introduced right here in San Francisco. However, Leopard will be a big step, especially for developers. Just click through our photos to get a better picture of WWDC 2007…
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WWDC is ready to start: Just one hour left until Steve enters the stage. But you have to be patient if you don’t have a VIP- or press badge. Small talk between two Apple employees: “Where do you carry all the guys?” “We are creating loops throughout the building”.
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Same procedure as every year: equinux joins Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. In only a few hours Steve Jobs will open WWDC 2007 with his well known keynote. equinux’ developers already arrived and secured their tickets after taking a breakfast. But the main question on first day was: Is 9 am too late for breakfast when you actually woke up at 5 am?
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