Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
My experiences with productivity suites have, for the most part, been positive. I’ve spent hours with Adobe’s Creative Suite, Apple’s Final Cut Suite, and several other multi-application bundles and walked away a satisfied customer. The success of these best-selling software suites is largely dependent on one immensely important factor: integration.
Cyberlink Software, it appears, didn’t get the memo.
Their newest product DVD Suite Ultra version 6 is billed as an unbeatable collection of DVD-based applications. The suite includes applications designed for video editing, burning and backup production, movie playback, and label printing, but performs these tasks without any sense of direction or coherence.
It seems that Cyberlink has simply bundled a handful of their applications together and called it a suite. Each piece of software acts as its own individual entity, with individual menu bars, UI’s, and keyboard commands. The spastic nature of the differing interfaces is incredibly frustrating. Moving from application to application is clunky and counterintuitive.
I installed DVD Suite Ultra on a top-of-the-line Vista-based laptop, whose specs far exceeded Cyberlink’s recommendations. Needless to say, it was one of the strangest installation processes I’ve ever experienced. After surpassing Microsoft’s incessantly redundant “Allow” or “Deny” installation messages, the process began, but instead of installing software, it decided to start an uninstall process for software I’d never installed. I watched in disbelief as several uninstall processes ran lethargically for 15 minutes, hogging my systems resources. After 40 painfully long minutes, DVD Suite Ultra was successfully installed.
The suite works through a handy little task-based launcher. If you want to burn a backup DVD, or do some video editing, clicking on the accompanying task launches the appropriate application. It’s pretty effective for beginners, as it highlights a programs capabilities without any prior knowledge, making the initial learning curve relatively flat. When the program launches, though, users are forced to familiarize themselves with badly-designed interfaces. One application, MediaShow, looked like one of those over-the-top Windows Media skins where nothing is labeled correctly. Yikes.
The video-editing component PowerDirector is a simple program centred around the timeline format common to most editing applications. It’s pretty obvious that Cyberlink looked to the simplicity of Apple’s iLife suite for their inspiration, but they managed to mimic with little success.
PowerDirector is bundled with several pre-made transitions and video effects, but they all have a distinctly mid-90’s music video cheese factor to them. These presets can’t match Apple’s professionally designed templates in iMovie. I was impressed with the rendering speed of effects, though; they rendered over my clips almost instantaneously. My first two attempts to render a finished video into an .AVI caused the program to lock up and crash.
Something even more troubling happened when I tried to export my project as an iPod video file. “Your version of DVD suite needs to be upgraded to perform this export” read the popup. This came as a surprise, especially since I was using the Cyberlink’s most expensive and complete software suite.
As a whole, DVD Suite Ultra is nothing more than a textbook example of a software collection that does many things but does none of them well. The lack of uniformity in the interfaces is crippling. If you’re looking for productivity software, you’re better off with products from Adobe and Apple.
