MacNN: uninstaller for Mac OS X records every change made

Yank 1.0 records every change made the the computer in the install and lets you uninstall in Mac OS X. Yank uses Matterform's Sonar technology to remove hidden files that search tools cannot locate.

A Windows uninstaller, Total Uninstall 3, looks interesting (version 2 was freeware).

I stumbled across what you didn't hear from Apple

Found text:

"Here's a bit of what you didn't hear from Apple regarding their new Intel-based iMac and MacBook computers.

Applications compiled for the PowerPC processor will run 5-10 times slower on a MacTel computer. Performance of many useful programs on a MacTel will approximate the performance obtained on a 300MHz Blueberry iBook (average eBay price, $300). If you want to run heavier duty apps on your new MacTel system, you'll probably want to install windows XP and purchase the Windows XP versions.

Large applications not built using Apple's compiler will require a large engineering effort in order to run natively on a MacTel system [especially difficult is Assembly code]. If it were easy, important apps would have already been native MacTel software."
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This most likely was the development hardware not the Intel Core Duo "Yonah" chips. From Job's demo it looks a bit faster. Maybe Adobe will have surprises for NAB, but Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen commented to CNET.com in August 2005: "If you look at our product cycles for products like Photoshop and Creative Suite, they tend to be in the 18- to 24-month cycle, which means that you're talking about either Q4 of '06 or Q1 of '07."

Effects Corner Podcast

Scott Squires, longtime ILM VFX Supervisor and creator of Commotion, has 2 blogs and a podcast available; see esp, Effects Corner Podcast, "Insights to Visual Effects for Motion Pictures and Television. How it's done in Hollywood and how you can do it yourself." (from Prolost).

DI King

A good summary of DI (digital intermediates) can be found in Peter Jackson's "Post Production Diary - 6 Weeks to Go!" on kongisking.net.

AE is part of Shake

AE for Shake is a full package of macros for Shake to mimic the 124 effects and 30 blend modes of After Effects within Shake. For now up to 124 effects and 30 blend modes are supported. The User Interface is exactly the same in After Effects and Shake which allows a very fast transition between the two packages.

Peter Jackson's Production Diaries for King Kong

AE-listee Bob Currier, creator of Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse, mentioned Peter Jackson's weekly QT Production Diaries for his King Kong movie. Pretty cool--and free.

tig (telecine internet group)

Interested in FinalTouch for professional color grading on the desktop? I don't have enough inspiration to track the discussions at the telecine internet group:

'The tig (telecine internet group) is a collection of people worldwide with interests in color correction or grading images originating in cameras using film, video, or raw data as record media. The tig was originally formed in 1994 for the telecine community ("telecine" in this case meaning "video film") as a mailing list with associated webpages.'