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I’ve been meaning to do this ever since I got a Blackberry and started my own business 15 months ago. And now that I’ve done it, it feels great. And I highly recommend you do it too: Unsubscribe from all the CRM/Loyalty programs who you opted in to receive emails from.
Here’s my story:
I, like you, [...]

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[UPDATE, 12 June 2008, 1am HK time: I've learned that Stewart Chong has been posting his comment below (with links back here to this post) in various places (e.g., HK Final Cut Pro Users Group and reduser.net). For the record, I have no formal affiliation with Red. I'm just a satisfied customer and friend/acquaintance [...]

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[UPDATE, 18 Mar 08, 19:00 Hong Kong time--Crimson is now available!]
[UPDATE, 8 Mar 08; 13:57--Mark Pederson announced on reduser.net that he'll be giving a sneak preview of his helper app (and maybe Crimson too?) at the RED LA User Group meeting, on Saturday, 15 March, from 9am-noon, in Los Angeles at Kappa Studios. Wish I [...]

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The IHT has finally reported on what those of us living in China have known to be a fact for a long time: it’s easy to get an iPhone in Hong Kong or China, even though Apple’s only officially released the iPhone in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a dirty little secret: Apple’s sold 3.7 [...]

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[Update (15 Feb 08, 05:46pm HK time): OK, my bad. I got batteries for the keyboard, downloaded the vids and watched on HDTV via FrontRow on Mac Mini. After the third song (albeit, listening interrupted by other tasks) I starting thinking: gee, REM songs sound a lot the same... When it dawned on me that [...]

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[UPDATE: 13 Feb 9am HK time: a few new pieces of info (and speculation) point in the direction of this rumor not being true (good!):
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=154951#post154951
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/12/is-apple-shedding-its-final-cut-pro-apps-at-nab/
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=154998#post154998]
ORIGINAL POST:
Frank Capria writes in a post on his new ProVideo Coalition site:
Word on the street is that Apple has been shopping ProApps around since late last summer, and a [...]

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Apple dropping out of NAB 2008 (?!)

That’s what this post says. Wow! I decided not to go to NAB, in order to be able to attend the full Hong Kong International Film Festival. Now I’m feeling vindicated and farsighted… It’s one thing when Avid drops out of NAB–what many of us took as a signal of hard times on giant who’s [...]

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I’m in the market for a new MacBook Pro (I’m making the switch from Adobe Premiere to Final Cut, to handle footage from my Red One camera). But I’ll hold off my purchase for a month or two, as new faster Mac Book Pros (with iPhone-esque touchpads and Penryn chips) appear to be imminent, as [...]

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Torrey Loomis, CEO of Silverado Systems, has just posted an extremely generous offer on Reduser.net: 6 DVDs full of native 4K Red Red “footage” (i.e. native 4K RAW R3D movie files) which he’ll send free to any address in the U.S. (US$19 for shipping to an international address). This is super cool for those [...]

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The Red One Digital Cinema Camera is poised to make a revolution in film-making. I believed this 25 months ago when I first heard rumors of the camera. And now that Steven Soderbergh and Peter Jackson are raving about it, and Hollywood films being shot on it, it’s a commonplace notion. But here’s a synopsis [...]

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