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Apps

Wirelessly Control Final Cut Pro with your iPhone & Playhead

A couple weeks ago, I had the honor of taping a few segments with the guys from MacBreak Studio, a killer video podcast for anyone doing creative work on a Mac.  I was there yapping all about all kinds of mobile stuff, including Playhead from Wind Up Toy, an AWESOME little $2.99 app that lets you remotely control Final Cut

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A clamp and arm mechanism, featured at MacWorld '11, advertised as an iPad Mounts docking station for securing an iPad in place.
Gear

MacWorld ’11: Two New iPad Mounts from Monitors in Motion

We’re wrapping up our MacWorld 2011 coverage with a pair of iPad mounts from Monitors in Motion. They’re slick, silver, solid and sexy, and they’d both fit nicely in any professional environment. To provide an additional layer of security, the iPad Docking Station requires a key to remove the enclosed iPad — a nice touch for iPads that will be

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An iPhone 4 mounted on a Glif tripod capturing the skyline during twilight.
Gear

MacWorld ’11: Glif mounts your iPhone 4 on a Tripod

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid hearing about the GLIF, an awesome little iPhone 4 tripod adaptor, then you need to be brought up to speed (and you clearly need to get our more often). Check out the video below to hear a quick explanation from one of the inventors! You can also click here to check our our previous coverage.

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Apps

Index Card for iPad gets reviewed

Cult of Mac just published a very nice review of Index Card, an iPad app designed to virtualize the index card method of script development. Very often, writers will put every scene and idea on a separate note card, and then shuffle the cards around a cork board in order to find the most effective order.  Naturally, there’s a lot

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Gear

MacWorld ’11: Mount your iPad anywhere with Vogel’s RingO System

Similar to the modulR setup we showed you last week, here’s Vogel’s new iPad mounting system.  Using the system’s various add-ons, you can mount your iPad just about anywhere. The primary difference here is Vogel’s use of a single circular plug that attaches to the back of their custom iPad case (instead of modulR’s four node system). Vogel calls this their

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Gear

MacWorld ’11: SubCostume creates custom iThing cases

While visiting MacWorld, I must have seen at least 1000 different iPhone and iPad cases, and that was just in one booth! The booth in question belonged to SubCostume, a new service that lets users design their own custom case. They had an infinite variety of samples stuck on their walls.  The variety was almost absurd. Using SubCostume’s web app or free iOS apps (for

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