Baseball for iPhone Review

I had a chance to take a look at the great free application from iPhone App store, called Baseball. No, it's not a game, it's a compendium of all the key stats of every major leagues baseball player ever. Did I mention it's free? While there's nothing groundbreaking in the presentation of the app, and no eye candy to speak of, it's a great look at how an incredibly useful application for a very specific audience can be created.

Have a look:

AOL Radio for iPhone Video Review

Following up on Jamie's thoughts on AOL Radio, here's our video walk through/review of the app:

Animation-ish Review

Every once in a while, it's refreshing to see an application intended to let your creative side shine, without the focus on extra features, interface, or speed. Animation-ish gets out of the way, at let's your creativity run the show. The program is designed to allow you to quickly and easily create animations, whether they're simple three-cel loops (similar to the "squiggly look" of some cartoons) of creating more complex 30 frames per second animations with backgrounds etc. There's no need to go to training or buy a book (ahem, flash). You just dive in.

The only thing is, to really get the most out of it, you'll want to dive in with a graphics tablet. Here's the full video review:

You can download the free trial at: Animationish.com

El Gato turbo.264 review

One of our pet peeves here at TDL is the large amount of h.264 encoding we need to do to get our content on-air. So since January, we've been anxious to try El Gato's turbo.264. It's a standalone hardware encoder that plugs in to a USB port, and you're ready to go. Any skepticism disappeared when we saw the speedy results. Whatever is inside this thing should be standard on every pro machine from Apple. It saved us from buying a new tower just to boost encode speeds. Check it out:

Dragon Suite with Shadow: Review

Dragon Suite promises to be an all-in-one solution for burning CDs and DVDs, backing up DVD movies, and just for the heck of it, file/hard drive backups as well. A lot of this functionality is already in OS X 10.5 so does Dragon Suite bring something new to the table? Well, I'd love to say you have to watch the review, but I can't do it. The short answer is no.