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Rick Green, Director of Marketing & Creative Services and Robert Leitch, Production Manager, MediaSource TV join host Scott Sheppard to share an exciting "switcher" story. MediaSource is a full-service multimedia production and public/media relations creative studio. Rick and Robert explain how they were originally using an Avid, PC based video workflow but when they upgraded their studio they also changed their entire production workflow from Avid to Final Cut Pro running exclusively on brand new Apple Macs. Hear their experiences and joy first hand as their entire company quickly learned to love their new platform and how seamlessly they switched and were able to maintain their busy workloads. To learn more about MediaSource visit: http://www.mediasourcetv.com/

Todd Santoro, Principal & Sr. Designer, ToddSantoro.com Designs and Founder, Accelerator Labs joins Inside Mac to discuss his groovy cool retro style iPhone apps including; "Rock, Paper, Scissors", "Naked Lady Pen", "Spin the Bottle", and in honor of our President elect "O Bobble Head" which answers your pressing questions like a magic 8-Ball. Also just in time for the holidays, you can download "pocket Mistletoe" to see where people are getting lucky this season. Todd’s design background helps create the graphic interface. Todd explains how quickly they were able to pull together a winning development team, and with little prior experience are launching successful iPhone apps. Check out the latest at: http://acceleratorlabs.com/

Jon von Bronkhorst, Executive Director, Product Marketing for Seagate Consumer Solutions Division (CSD) explains details about their latest Mac OS products; Free Agent Go and Free Agent Desktop storage solutions. Jon explains that unlike previous desktop and portable storage solutions, the Free Agent 2.0 series whose Mac versions were developed entirely with the Mac user in mind. The drives ship formatted for Mac OS, have an elegant design and are so easy to use right out of the box unlike the PC version they do not require or ship with any additional software. The Free Agent Go includes a convenient docking station, delivering true portability. Jon reminds us that all Seagate drives include a 5 year warranty. Scott and Jon also discuss some background on Seagate and Macstore brand integration. To find out more, including where to purchase visit: http://freeagent.seagate.com/

Sally deVincentis, Chief Executive Officer, APTE Inc. joins Inside Mac this week to talk about their unique line of educational programs for kids that encourage them to play and learn. Sally discusses their latest product, a tween diary called "My Crazy Life". This program lets them record their private thoughts, personal pictures and favorite music in a format that lets them ‘keep it private’ without ever going online. It encourages personal expression, integrates text, pictures, music, and videos yet provides privacy via password protection and can support up to 10 accounts so multiple family members can use, but each can maintain their own journal. APTE offers a full line of licensed products including those developed for Nickelodeon, and other learning software, to see their full line visit: http://www.apte.com/

Video Post Production News of the Week with Philip Hodgetts from the Open TV Network. More information available at: http://www.opentelevisionnetwork.com/

Andy Shalat, Design Guru and Author of "Mac Design Out Of The Box" shares his Design Tip of the Week. For more about Andy and his latest works visit: http://www.shalat.com

David Strohmeier, Independant Editor joins hosts Scott Sheppard & Brad Wright to share his experiences transitioning from an analog film to a digital video workflow. David, has worked for a variety of TV and movie studios most recently completing a documentary for Warner Brothers Home Video, called "Cinerama Adventure". The documentary features a historical look at the work of filmmaking pioneers from the 1950’s-1960’s who worked in Cinerama which were shown on a 146ft. curved widescreen. David explains how they were able to recreate the effects by converting the 3-film originals to a digital format in the proper aspect ratio and they using the "Smilebox" technique were able to curve the digital view to mimic the original style in a clean, vivid, Blu-Ray format perfect for viewing on today’s high-definition widescreen TVs.

David claims he is "bi-lingual" using both Avid and Final Cut Pro to edit the films. He explains how he was able to save time by using a unique Final Cut Pro plug-in that automates first editing cuts called "First Cuts for FCP" by The Assistant Editor, developed by our own Philip Hodgetts.

For more information about David visit his online resume at: http://www.davidstrohmaier.com/, for details on Cinerama Adventure and the Smilebox technique visit: http://www.cineramaadventure.com/.

Michael Alvarez, CEO, Avantar joins Inside Mac to discuss his latest iPhone directory apps including Showtimes, OneTap Movies, Munch, YellowPages, and AirYell. Avantar is a sister company to YellowPages focusing on mobile and web applications. Michael explains how their development team, who is passionate about the iPhone platform was able to create some core technologies that power these popular apps. Avantar delivered popular search tools for finding phone numbers, movie times, restaurants to the iPhone and even allows you to purchase tickets in a secure environment right from your iPhone. Michael also discusses their new graphing calculator, PowerGraph - free for a limited time - that lets you go from geek to chic in seconds flat.

For more information on their range of apps visit: http://avantar.us/

Patrick Chukwura, Co-Founder, SimpleLeap Software, LLC. joins hosts Scott & Brad to discuss how you can Cram for your exams using your iPhone! Patrick describes how this unique app allows students to easily study, prepare, and import test questions and materials in a simple iPhone interface. Not just a digital flashcard, Cram enables interactive multiple choice questions with instant feedback and scores. Whether for school, work, or other testing applications Cram for iPhone or iPod Touch makes it fun and easy. Create your own study guides on your iPhone or online and share them with your friends.

For more information about Cram, which is also available for a Blackberry visit: http://www.simpleleap.com/

Alan Lorence, President, Wondertouch, LLC joins Inside Mac for an update on the latest features available in particleIllusion 3.0 for Mac OS X. particleIllusion is a standalone application that allows you to quickly and easily create amazing effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects — literally hundreds of different types of video effects. particleIllusion includes over 1,500 templates that cover a range of wild visuals for any video or movie project. Now supporting HD, auto updates, and they even launched a "lite" version particleIllusion SE for those who don’t need the full power of particleIllusion 3.0.

For more information and live examples visit: http://www.wondertouch.com

Video Post Production News of the Week with Philip Hodgetts from the Open TV Network. More information available at: http://www.opentelevisionnetwork.com/

Andy Shalat, Design Guru and Author of "Mac Design Out Of The Box" shares his Design Tip of the Week. For more about Andy and his latest works visit: http://www.shalat.com