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Future Media Concepts announces the 5th annual NY Post|Production Conference with 4 days of cutting-edge training from postproduction, broadcasters and content creators through hands-on Final Cut and Motion certification workshops. Produced in association with the National Association of Broadcasters, this conference incorporates the same successful training methodology as the widely popular NAB Las Vegas training event.

Future Media Concepts announces the 5th annual NY Post|Production Conference with 4 days of cutting-edge training from postproduction, broadcasters and content creators through hands-on Final Cut and Motion certification workshops. Produced in association with the National Association of Broadcasters, this conference incorporates the same successful training methodology as the widely popular NAB Las Vegas training event.

Cult of Mac reports on a “sketch-looking” non functional white iPhone that is being sold on eBay as a prototype iPhone 3GS.

The seller says there’s a problem with restoring the software: “This device is not eligible for the re…

24U Software has announced an immediate availability of 24U Phone Companion, a new plug-in for FileMaker Pro, letting FileMaker Pro users and solution developers to tie a FileMaker database to a phone. 24U Phone Companion allows FileMaker Pro to interact directly with supported PBX, and shifts any FileMaker Pro based CRM to the next level of usage efficiency. 24U Phone Companion uses 24U Phone Companion Server as its middleware to talk to your PBX.

Fudzilla has heard from industry sources close to NVIDIA that a recent report claiming that Apple will be dropping NVIDIA-based designs for future Macs is false and that the companies’ relationship is “just fine.”

Apple is still buyin…

Hyperbolic Software is proud to see Smart Trash featured at TheMacBundles – the much needed new model for marketing software that’s being promoted by Kagi. Smart Trash enhances the functions of the Mac OS X trash by adding several menu options including: selective file deletion, extensive logging, the ability to empty the trash on specific volumes, and more! The bundle offered at TheMacBundles website is unusual both for the consistent high quality of all the software.

Macworld’s offices are closed today in celebration of Independence Day in the United States. Hints will return as usual on Monday.

-rob.

iHanWel today is proud to announce iDay Deluxe 2.3, an update to their popular day calendar and event utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, iDay makes it easy to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, or any special event. Choose any entry and iDay will present useful, accompanying information, including numeric data, Western, Chinese, Native American, and Celtic Zodiacs, and the moon phase for that day.

PremiumSoft has released Navicat Premium, their cross database admin and migration interface for Mac OS X. Navicat Premium combines all Navicat versions in an ultimate version and can connect MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Navicat Premium allows the user to drag and drop tables and data from Oracle to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL, Oracle to PostgreSQL and vice versa within a single client. Also, batch jobs for different databases can also be scheduled and automated.

Chicago based Yazsoft has announced Playback 1.0, their new zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, Playback allows anyone to share their media with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other UPnP compatible device. Playback can also share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. By default, Playback will share almost any content on the users system. No configuration required.