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Plan, shoot, and cut your own video shorts with Directr

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Plan, shoot, and cut your own video shorts with Directr


Plan, shoot, and cut your own video shorts with Directr

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 12:12 PM PDT

Many developers are wisely taking advantage of the powerful cameras in today's smartphones and trying to replicate the success of photo sharing apps with video apps. Apps like Viddy, Klip, and Socialcam compete to let users make clips and add quick effects before publishing and sharing. But no developers have really taken that a step further to include the all-important creation component.

Directr and its creators want to distance themselves as far as possible from the new Video-Instagram crowd. The brainchild of a former Microsoft Software Engineer, Directr is a little video app that aims to help the average users create videos that their friends will want to watch. Instead of making long animated GIFs or small clips, Directr lets you explore your creative side while making some imaginative shorts.

Plan and Shoot

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Featuring professionally designed storyboards, music, and editing tools, Directr lets you turn ordinary life events into awesome shorts. ... [Read more]

    


Enable offline cached pages in Google Canary

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 11:08 AM PDT

(Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET)

Canary is a developer and beta version of Google Chrome's newest features. By allowing both versions of Chrome to run side-by-side, you can test out the newest features without sacrificing your stable version.

If you're using the most recent version of Canary, there's a new experimental feature that lets you view the offline cached versions of Web pages. Not sure if you have the most recent build? Easy fix. Just click the Settings icon in the top-right-hand corner, then choose About Google Chrome. Your browser will check for updates and apply any available.

So let's get into what this new feature does. Basically, if you try to visit a Web page you normally frequent and get a message that says "This Web page is not available," or you're having connection issues while loading the page, then this experimental feature can help. Instead of displaying the error message, Google will attempt to show you the most recent cached version of the Web page.

Sound good? Enabling this feature just takes a couple of quick steps and then you're set.

(Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET)

First, type chrome://flags or about:flags in th... [Read more]

    


Apple raw update supports Fujifilm cameras

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 12:43 AM PDT

Fujifilm's X-E1

(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Apple has updated its raw-photo support so software like iPhoto and Aperture can handle images from several higher-end new Fujifilm cameras.

The update to OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion, lets Apple's software handle files from the Fujifilm X20, X100S, X-E1, and X-Pro1. The update arrived last week and only works if a person has iPhoto 9.4 or Aperture 3.4 installed, Apple said.

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The Week on Download.com, April 17-23, 2013

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 12:01 AM PDT

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