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If you’re looking for a nifty software for recording your screen’s activities, Araelium Group’s Screenflick might interest you. Screenflick captures your screen in a smooth, fluid motion of up to 60fps. It can record any portion of your screen and you can even record audio narration at the same time as you are recording your screen’s activities.

Already a good screen capturing program, Screenflick gets even more powerful with the release of Screenflick 1.6. It boasts of 30 new features in addition to the already good features that it used to have.

The 1.6 version’s major enhancements now enables you to; record/compress using a toggle switch at the top left of the window, rename recorded movies in the sidebar, play movies using the compression pane’s movie preview, toggle the camera mode between fixed and follow, fast start movies during compression, among other useful improvements.

The Screenflick 1.6 software runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or later and requires QuickTime 7.2 or later. You can get it installed on your Macs for $30.

Via [Macnn] Product [Screenflick]

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Rogers Communications Inc, the only Canadian carrier with a GSM network, was hoping to include the iPhone in a touch screen phone campaign they were planning to launch around May or July.  Now, neither side is talking and there hasn’t been any official statements yet, but a source has mentioned that Rogers and Apple are close to signing an agreement.  As for the history, Rogers initially said it would have the iPhone, but never made any actual deal.  The most likely reason for this is the fact that Rogers doesn’t like unlimited data plans and typically has higher charges for their data plans.

So is this just another rumor to boost you hope again, or do you think Rogers will actually release the iPhone at the above mentioned time?  I personally hope this rumor is in fact true because I would love to see my Canadian friends and all of their friends able to get the iPhone.  They have waited long enough and Apple is missing out on quite a few customers up there.

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I just received a 23” Cinema Display. I bought it off of eBay for the “cheap” price of $600. This is a steal compared to Apple’s list price of $899 before tax and shipping, but a rip-off when comparing it to a similar monitor.

Before the Cinema Display, I had a 24” HP. Cost? $369, before tax and shipping. It had four USB ports compared to the Cinema’s two. It could tilt from perpendicular to the desk all the way to parallel to it. It could move up and down. It could swivel. It could even rotate to portrait mode. It was very feature-paced for only about $400, but I got a Cinema Display anyway. I’m a sucker for the Apple brand.

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Many iPhone users dislike typing with its built-in touch screen QWERTY keyboard, and finally, a man named Ruddy Ugarte has come up with a practical and affordable solution. The new product, called My Touch Keys, is a transparent protective screen protector, with cut-outs for for the iPhone’s keyboard. This amazing product lets you feel where each letter is located on the textured surface, reducing typo errors that are common among the iPhone among most other mobile phones.

The best part about it is that this practical screen protector only costs $7.99 USD for a pair and is definitely worth investing in. Even if you don’t find that the product is suitable for your needs, at least you wouldn’t have spent a lot of money on it.

Unfortunately, shipping is free for US residents only, so you’ll have to pay a bit more for third-party and international shipping services.

The picture shown is only an illustration, as the actual product itself is completely transparent, and Ugarte claims that you won’t even notice the cut-outs; plus it won’t affect the iPhone’s multi-touch interface, which may be a problem among thicker third-party iPhone screen protectors.

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A new set of iPhone wallpapers that were created by Josh Helfferich “to show the true power of the iPhone.“ I can say that currently these are my favorite wallpapers for the iPhone and with the large selection available that really says something. This set of 6 wallpapers are both funny and satirical.

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A new report out today about the Jesus-Phone, this time saying that the reported iPhone screen problem are set to get worse. Apparently, after 3 to 6 months of heavy use, the screen will start to degrade and would be less likely to pick up touches.

With so much technology packed into one screen and phone, problems are sure to pop up. No major problems have arose to date that effect you from using your iPhone currently but over time you may run into a few setbacks.

Via [IntoMobile]

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Rumors of where Apple is going to implement MultiTouch Technology have been going from the iPod all the way up to the iMac. An Apple patent (filed by Fingerworks [a company Apple bought] back in January) published today shows that MultiTouch is definitely a technology they want to implement in their product line other than the iPhone.

Many attempts have been made over the years to improve the way users interact with computers. In the beginning, cards or tapes with punched holes were used for user input. Punch cards gave way to terminals with alphanumeric keyboards and text displays, which evolved into the modern keyboard, mouse and graphical-display based graphical user interfaces. Many expect that the use of multi-finger, touch-sensitive user interfaces (“multi-touch interfaces“), such as those described in the references incorporated above, will become widely adopted for interacting with computers and other electronic devices, allowing computer input to become even more straightforward and intuitive.

The patent talks about MultiTouch gestures which could be used to invoke a number of different actions. If Apple creates a Tablet Mac, or implements MultiTouch in it’s displays or iPods, these different gestures will most likely make an appearance. The patent states there are approx. 300 different combinations per hand, so the possibilities for what Apple could do with this technology is almost endless.

Via [MacRumors]

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