LG moves all LCD TV’s to LED

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Engadget has this announcement from LG at their CES press conference (and yes they are still making Plasma TV's as well). This should make for brighter and better TV's!

2012 iMac faster than Mac Pro with Radeon HD 5870 in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro CS6

Bare Feats has run the tests, and the 2012 iMac 27" 3.4GHz Core iMac with 32GB of RAM and the GeForce GTX 680MX GPU actually does beat the MacPro in Resolve and Premiere Pro, but that is a MacPro with the Radeon HD 5870 GPU. Not really a fair test unless you have an NVIDIA CUDA card in the MacPro. As the MacPro still beats the iMac in 2 out of 3 CPU tests.I have a feeling my non Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4096 MB would slaughter the iMac in anything CUDA aware, which would be Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve.

Canon 6D has Moire issues over 5D Mark III

Petapixel has an article and video that show the moire issues. Looks like the 6D is great for stills, but not so great for video, especially as an alternative to the 5D Mark III.My 60D and the 7D already have the moire issue, so it still would be an improvement over them, but it sucks that they didn't put the downsampling of the 5D Mark III, and instead went back to the cheaper and easier Line skipping which causes the issue to begin with.

25% off Launchbar at MacGasm

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MacGasm is currently selling my favorite productivity app LaunchBar for 25% off, only $26.LaunchBar is a powerful keyboard based launcher program from Objective Development, that speeds up every aspect of using your computer.A description from ObDev:LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.Get instant access to applications, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, media libraries, search engines and so much more – just by typing short abbreviations.It’s a file manager, a web and desktop search tool, an app launcher, a clipboard manager, a jukebox, a calculator, an information browser, … or quite simply a tremendous time saver!Here is a review from MacLife, Part 1 of a Macworld Article, and part 2 of said article on increasing your productivity with LaunchBar, and a MacWorld on the awesome program from 2005.This is a must have program for any power user who spends a lot of time on their computer, so a discount is a great thing! Check it out!

4K Displays on Windows 8

Gavin Gear at the Extreme Windows Blog, has an awesome post on how he got a 4K display running on Windows 8 and tried it out for editing with Premiere Pro CS 6 on Windows 8. Awesome. If only a Mac could even run 3 displays, nonetheless a 4K display!

How Peter Jackson shot the Hobbit

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Filmmaker IQ links to an article at Popular Mechanics on how Peter Jackson shot the Hobbit and shot both small Hobbits and large humans at the same time. Couldn't do the forced perspective trickery because of the 3D, so had to have a normal and a green screen set next to each other with motion control rigs connected to each other. WOW! That is pretty darn amazing!

Auotdesk has shipped Smoke 2012

Autodesk has released the full version of Smoke 2013 and you can download a free trial. It is $3495 per user license.Damn, I wish I had played more with the earlier beta to get used to it, as I would really like to get proficient as the node based graphics tools (like the earlier Shake) are so powerful.I still wish it was $1000, so it was more affordable to a normal user like me, but still it has dropped a great amount and looks to be a powerful editing and graphics tool.

Google has released Google Maps for iOS

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OK all, time to all take a collective breath, Google has released Google Maps for the iPhone and iPad. Download it and stop complaining about Apple Maps!Yes I don't like Maps too well either. Sure the 3D thing on new devices is cool, though useless. And I don't see why older devices can't do turn by turn. And I do hate the colors, and the traffic has been totally useless, but I just moved to alternatives. And have been really enjoying VUZE for traffic, but now Google Maps is back, so...EDIT: ArsTechnica has a great article on it, including it's shortcomings. The biggest that it doesn't access your contacts from anywhere, not iOS or from Google itself, so you can't just type someone's name to get their address (THIS SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE FIXED).And they tell you how to activate privacy, though it looks like it will then also turn off your helping with traffic.