Apple teams up with (RED)® again on World AIDS Day, select Apps on the iTunes App Store are turning (RED).
Handbrake 0.10.0
Handbrake, the Open-Source tool for converting video, has reach a version 0.10.0. Yes, it is Handbrake 0.10.0.
Encoders
We are introducing several new encoders with this release and replacing others.
- Intel QuickSync Video
is a hardware based H.264 encoder that is available on Intel CPUs. Currently, QSV is only supported on Windows but we hope to bring this to Linux users in the future. Thanks to the good people at Intel for making this possible!- H.265
is now available through x265 1.4. While this encoder is still fairly new, we have seen some promising results come out of it. It’s still under heavy active development and is only going to improve over time!- VP8
using the libvpx encoder. We have now deprecated Theora (VP3) in favour of VP8 which is a more modern encoder offering better quality encodes at lower file sizes.- LibFaac
Has now officially been removed due to GPL compatibility issues, and replaced with the libav AAC encoder as the new default for Windows and Linux. In addition, we have added the FDK AAC encoder for Windows and Linux as a optional compile-time option. The Mac release will continue to use CoreAudio as the default.- As usual, we’ve updated a number of the core libraries including x264 and libav
Handbrake is available for OS X, Ubuntu and Windows.
As a content creator, I certainly am thankful to the people who have been working on Handbrake.
“Free” is replaced by “Get” at the iTunes App Store
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple has changed the wording for free games in its App Store, and the app purchase buttons that once read “Free” for apps with no cost now read “Get” instead. The change has been implemented on both the iOS App Store and the desktop App Store.
Because we all know that “Getdom isn’t Get”
Remember that movie, “Get Willy“?
OS X Update Seed 10.10.2 Build 14C68k
Apple seeds OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 beta Build 14C68k to Developers and AppleSeed members.
There have been reports that Google Chrome is crashing after applying this beta update.
WordPress 4.0.1
WordPress 4.0.1 is out now.
- Three cross-site scripting issues that a contributor or author could use to compromise a site. Discovered by Jon Cave, Robert Chapin, and John Blackbourn of the WordPress security team.
- A cross-site request forgery that could be used to trick a user into changing their password.
- An issue that could lead to a denial of service when passwords are checked. Reported by Javier Nieto Arevalo and Andres Rojas Guerrero.
- Additional protections for server-side request forgery attacks when WordPress makes HTTP requests. Reported by Ben Bidner (vortfu).
- An extremely unlikely hash collision could allow a user’s account to be compromised, that also required that they haven’t logged in since 2008 (I wish I were kidding). Reported by David Anderson.
- WordPress now invalidates the links in a password reset email if the user remembers their password, logs in, and changes their email address. Reported separately by Momen Bassel, Tanoy Bose, and Bojan Slavković of ManageWP.
I would say that it is mandatory to update your WordPress installation, because of these important security fixes.
OS X Update Seed 10.10.1 Build 14B23
Apple releases OS X Update Seed 10.10.1 build 14B23.
There are still issues with Exchange accounts in Mail, network connectivity, and graphics in this build.
iTunes First Play: Foo Fighters “Sonic Highways”
Foo Fighters latest album “Sonic Highways” is coming this Monday, November 10, 2014.
FooFighters.com | iTunes
iTunes is now streaming the album, all eight songs, for you to listen. As long as you have iTunes or iOS devices; preferably running the almost current iOS.
Foo Fighters “Sonic Highways” is also an HBO series.
Track Listing:
- Something From Nothing
- The Feast and The Famine
- Congregation
- What Did I Do? / God As My Witness
- Outside
- In the Clear
- Subterranean
- I Am a River
