At this meeting, held on the 6th November, we talked about Apple’s recent product announcements including HomeView, MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display and the OLED iPad mini. DavidB talked about a video project in DaVinci Resolve and members also mentioned other topics.
Apple Product Announcements
We talked about Apple’s recent product announcements of:
And also about the reported impressions of the iPhone Duo.
DaVinci Resolve
DavidB had created another video in DaVinci Resolve, this time with a Halloween theme. You can watch on YouTube here.
David talked about creating the video and in particular how he used the DaVinci AI voiceover feature and used ChatGPT to create different versions of the house image (the video was then composed and edited by hand).
David also mentioned CapCut as a more straightforward video editor (available as a free download with paid subscriptions adding AI and other features).
Member Topics
- Liz mentioned that she had just purchased a Benq ScreenBar Halo 2 monitor light bar. She recommended this video from Cameron Dougherty about the product.
- Liz reported she had an issue where her copy of Microsoft Office 2024 became unregistered after a software update. This was resolved when Microsoft eventually released a further update to correct the problem (version 16.114.3).
- DaveK pointed out the changes to the Music app icon and design in iOS 27 removing the previous red accent colour. He also noted that the Podcasts app has had changes replacing “Up Next” with “New Episodes” and “Continue Playing”.
- DaveK also mentioned the new vertical tabs feature coming to Safari in the 27.3 OS updates.
- Ben mentioned news stories about the iPhone Duo being setup to resemble other products using its inner and outer screens. We found examples of a Walkman and a working Mac (using screensharing). There is also this case mockup by Spigen in the style of the clamshell iBook - Twitter/X posting, Reddit discussion.
- Ben told us about the very cool easter egg of a working virtual iPod if you visit an invalid page on the Apple Music web site. For example https://music.apple.com/blahblahblah.