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Visualhub For Mac Os



VisualHub Lion Updater 1.0 for Mac is free to download from our software library. This free Mac app is a product of Techspansion LLC. This free Mac app is a product of Techspansion LLC. The software lies within System Tools, more precisely System Optimization. This program will update VisualHub 1.34 for compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion. Older versions of VisualHub cannot be updated. It will look for a program called “VisualHub”. If you renamed VisualHub to something else, change it back. If you have multiple copies of VisualHub on your computer for some reason, launch the one you want to update.

Some thoughts about yesterday’s Back to the Mac announcement

While it wasn't a super-exciting announcement, there were quite a few interesting things revealed during Apple's Back to the Mac event yesterday morning. One thing that's getting lots of press is the next generation of MacBook Air. I have always admired the Air, but could never justify purchasing one since it was quite expensive for what you got. Sure, it was sexy, sleek, and thin, but the hardware specs were kind of weak. Since I'm not made of money, I wouldn't have been able to afford getting a MacBook Air as a supplement to a MacBook or MacBook Pro. So I admired it from afar, and for a while the iPad completely wiped the MacBook Air off my wishlist, but with the new 11' and 13' versions out, plus the announcement of iLife '11 and OS X Lion, the Air is back on my radar. 🙂

Steve Jobs said that multi-touch wouldn't be added to Macs via a touchscreen. It's too awkward to use touch on a vertical surface, and works much better on horizontal surfaces like touchpads and the Magic Mouse. I agree with this. When I used convertible Tablet PCs, I would flip them around to slate mode whenever I wanted to interact with the touchscreen (or active digitizer) for an extended period of time. The hinges on my convertible TPCs weren't sturdy enough to hold the screen steady when touching or inking on them, and it did feel unnatural to interact with a touchscreen this way. (I never really liked writing on chalkboards or whiteboards, either, so YMMV. 🙂 ) Message received: no touchscreen Mac notebooks. But then I got to thinking a convertible MacBook Air would be an awesome way of getting around this problem. You'd get a full-featured OS X notebook in an iPad-esque form factor when it's in slate mode. Flip the screen around to notebook mode for times you need a keyboard, or just want to work in 'notebook mode'. It would be awesome to use desktop-level apps like Photoshop, iPhoto, or iMovie in slate mode. We already know from the iPhone and iPad that people are used to using more complex photo, drawing, and music apps via touchscreen, so it would be a natural transition. I know it's the Tablet PC enthusiast in me talking, but I don't think it's a completely wacky idea for a Mac product. 🙂
More realistically, I don't think it's taking a big leap to predict we'll be seeing touchscreen Mac devices. They'll just likely be in a slate form factor, a la iOS devices. With OS X Lion getting more multi-touch support, and iLife apps adopting better full-screen modes, it seems that touchscreen Macs that act a lot like iOS devices are inevitable. For most users who want the ease of use of the iPad 95% of the time, but still need desktop-level apps for the other 5%, a 'hybrid' Mac device would be ideal. If Apple doesn't want to do a convertible notebook, you can still connect BT keyboards or keyboard docks, and use external monitors, like a lot of people already do with their MacBooks.
I also don't think it's a big leap to say OS X could likely merge completely with iOS to become one OS for mobile and desktop devices. Instead of a dual-boot solution where a device is running something like Windows 7 and Android, future Macs and iPhones/iPads could just run an optimized OS X that adapts to the situation, depending on what the user is doing, what apps are being used, etc. Engineers much smarter than I am can work out the details on how to do this. 🙂 There might not need to be so much switching between mobile and desktop performance profiles if most future Macs end up being mobile devices anyway. There will still be a need for desktop machines like the iMac and Mac Pro, but even the iMac could get a touchscreen makeover in the future.

Visualhub For Mac Os Versions

I know a lot of people scoff at the idea that the iPad is what future computing devices are going to look like, but after seeing all of the iOS features that are going back into OS X Lion, I think the path is clear, not only for 'desktop' machines that will be as easy to use as an iPad, but also for a desktop OS truly built for touch.

As is often the cycle of life, one Mac developer gaveth us VisualHub, but then, citing personal reasons, he tooketh it away. Fortunately, he is now givething VisualHub back—in the form of OSS.

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Visualhub For Mac Os 10.10

For those who have never had the pleasure, Techspansion's VisualHub is a fantastic video conversion tool that supports a broad range of formats. Its fast conversion speeds, convenient settings, and laugh-inducing dialogs have made it a favorite among Mac users with video that needs to shed one format for another.

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Citing personal reasons, however, Techspansion's founder, Tyler Loch, announced earlier this month that he was closing his company's doors and shutting down VisualHub (and its less-capable younger brother, iSquint). The response from the Mac web was, of course, despondent, but respectful of Loch's privacy and decision. At the time, there were no plans to release or open source VisualHub, but those plans have thankfully changed.

The Techspansion site now says that the source code for two of the company's projects (one that hasn't been seen yet) has been posted to SourceForge. VisualHub is now 'FilmRedux,' though Smoking Apples notes that it isn't quite up to executable snuff yet. Still, the underpinnings are there for developers to work their magic on, and a screenshot buried in the project files reveals an altered UI and a rich new inspector panel that houses more conversion settings and controls.

We can only hope that enough interest and developer talent gathers for the VisualHub FilmRedux torch to be picked up and carried on. It's a great app that made working with video on the Mac that much better.