Digital Video Hacks by Josh Paul is available soon from O'Reilly Media: "Since the dawn of film, novices and experts have used quick-and-dirty workarounds and audiovisual tricks to improve their motion pictures, from home movies to feature films. Today, the tools have certainly changed, as have the quality and scope of the results. With digital video, the hacking possibilities are now limitless, for both amateurs and professional artists. From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, Digital Video Hacks provides unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production." It also includes two hacks on stop-motion and time-lapse recording using iStopMotion.

However you might feel about the stunning announcement by Apple about its intentions to move Mac to Intel, the best way forward is to embrace this exciting new development. So, we took the opportunity to "tweak our code" and compile and run Boinx apps on one of the Intel machines at the WWDC. They work! Of course that will not be of much use until Apple actually ships anything, but it proves that Apple engineering did a great job in making this as easy as possible...

Just a short notice that the Boinx Software Team is taking off for WWDC 2005 tomorrow to get the latest on Tiger. We will try to give you updates next week. A couple of cool things in the pipeline...

I think we did not win the Apple Design Awards this year as we have not been notified yet...

Robert Pritchett reviews FotoMagico for macCompanion and awards it 5 Stars: "Strengths: Does stuff better than Apple's iApps." ... "There is a good reason why Boinx picked the magician's hat as a logo for this app. It really is magic!" ... "Titling allows for more freedom of movement than in using Apple's iApps. That's right, it allows the text to move and resize."