Entertainment

South San Francisco, USA - May 12th 2008: Now Mac users can enjoy digital TV with The Tube, regardless of their current location. equinux has released The Tube 2.7, featuring placeshifting, another free update to its innovative TV software that adds live-streaming of content via iChat. The Tube users can share the show they're currently watching with others via iChat, tell friends about their TubeToGo web gallery and subscribe to a podcast of their latest recordings, e.g. on the Apple TV in the living room. The Tube also adds numerous other Leopard-exclusive features.

Flashforward2008 opens the nomination process for the 18th Flashforward Film Festival. The festival, now in its ninth year, celebrates the most innovative and compelling projects created with Adobe® Flash™. Nominations Open for submissions to the Flashforward Film Festival, taking place August 20-22, 2008 in San Francisco, with 10 Realigned and Refreshed Categories for all Work Created with Adobe® Flash™.

CUPERTINO, California--May 1, 2008--Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store (itunes.com) on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on an iPod with video, iPhone, Mac or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV, with new releases priced at $14.99 and most catalog titles at $9.99.

Exactly 5 years ago today, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, which has revolutionized the way music is sold. In those five years, iTunes has become the largest and most successful online music retailer as their competitors failed.

What Apple did right and where the others failed was having a simple price structure, not requiring a monthly subscription fee, letting you keep the music you buy, letting you play the music you buy on multiple computers or other devices, and letting you burn the music to CDs.

SuperSync today shipped SuperSync 2.3, an application for iTunes and iPod users to keep their music libraries synchronized across multiple Mac and Windows computers. Version 2.3 adds a basic Tivo media server to allow users to browse and play their MP3 music collection over thier home theater.

SonicMood 4.8.5 is "ambient music" at its best. Version 4.8.5 adds even more possibilities to create your own ambient music sequences with the addition of Fibonacci Sequences and Logarithmic volume fade. SonicMood delivers polyphonic sound "Moods" algorithmically to sooth the soul and take outer distractions away.

TheDigitalLifestyle will be doing a one-time only broadcast of the film "Bed & Breakfast, featuring Ellen Feiss of Apple's "Switch" campaign. Viewers will be able to chat about the film as they watch it. The film will be broadcast Monday, April 21, at 9:30PM ET / 6:30PM PT.

Los Angeles, Calf - Former "Mac Genius" Tony Edwards, who portrays the fictional character, The Reverend Doctor Bobby Newton, spiritual leader and technological guide of The Church of Mac, will be featured the upcoming film, "MacHEADS".

Los Altos, CA - Sonoma Wire Works announces RiffRumble X, an online song collaboration contest for RiffWorks(tm) recording software users. The theme for songs will be "Moms Rule!" Contestants worldwide will team up into virtual bands of two to five musicians, record songs together, and compete for free international flower delivery for their moms. One song, written by up to 5 musicians, will win the Contestants Choice Category prizes: free flower delivery for their moms from 2flowers.com. Another song will win the Popularity Category prizes: RiffWorks logo items. There is no contest entry fee.

Adelaide, Australia - Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi Pro v7.3, free home server software containing a powerful media entertainment center (like AppleTV), file sharing and data backup functions. New features in this version include a complete Internet TV (video podcast) management system, 30 new Internet TV channels, additional methods to sort and filter Internet TV programs, an expanded setup wizard, stability improvements and a range of bug fixes. Versions are available for Windows and MacOS X.