Volumify Easily Mutes Your Mac Startup Sound

If you are looking to turn off and mute the annoying Mac startup sound, a new application called Volumify has been launched on the Mac App Store. That allows you to easily disable the startup sound in OS X Lion, allowing you to reboot and turn on your Mac without letting everyone around you know.

The new Volumify application not only mutes your Mac startup sound, it can also be configured to act differently in various locations. For instance if you only want to your Mac startup sound turned off in lectures, its ease to configure.

Once back at home or in the office you can simply configure Volumify to turn the volume back to normal. Volumify developers Rolling On The Bed explain:

“Volumify is a very handy utility to automatically adjust your Mac’s volume according to your current location and to disable the startup sound. All you need to do is configure your locations in the app’s preferences. Volumify automatically detects your locations by available WiFi networks and adjusts your Mac’s volume accordingly.”

Volumify features include: Automatic volume adjustment based on your current location, Automatic detection of locations, Configure individual locations and determine the system volume for these locations, Customise each location’s radius to account for large buildings or sites, Turn off the Mac OS X startup sound.

Sure there are other ways to turn off and mute your Macs startup sounds, but Volumify makes the process so simply and for £1.99 is a bargain, to have easy control over that annoying Mac startup sound.

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Xbox 360 Adds Crackle And CinemaNow Content Streaming

The Xbox team as today announced via the Major Nelson website, that Crackle and CinemaNow have now been added to the media line-up available to Xbox Live users.The new new video from Sony Pictures’ Crackle and Best Buy’s CinemaNow applications now enable users to enjoy even more streaming content.

If you haven’t had a chance to use either of these services on other systems or set-top boxes yet. Crackle it’s packed with tons of free TV shows and movies, and they’re all free. CinemaNow is Best Buy’s streaming rental/purchase movie service.

Both services are currently available to US residents, with Crackle soon arriving in Canada, Australia, and the UK. CinemaNow, however will remain a US exclusive.

Xbox 360 already has a good variety of steaming content providers including: Hulu Plus, Last.fm, Netflix, Zune Music & Video and ESPN, together with TV providers like AT&T U-verse TV in the U.S., TELUS in Canada, BSkyB, LoveFilm in the U.K., CANAL+ in France, Vodafone Portugal, VimpelCom in Russia and FOXTEL in Australia to name a few.

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Mozilla Adds New Developer Tools To Firefox (Video)

Mozilla has launched a bunch of new built in developer tools for Firefox, and the new tools are designed to let developers change the look and feel of web sites in real time.

Firefox has launched the Mozilla Full-Screen API for web applications and web sites, this can be used by developers to create full screen games, videos and more.

Firefox adds support for features that make it easier to build 3D Web experiences with open technologies. Mozilla pioneered WebGL and introduced it in Firefox. WebGL is a Web standard that allows websites and Web apps to display hardware-accelerated 3D graphics without third-party software. Firefox now supports Anti-Aliasing for WebGL, allowing developers to create objects that blend together and move smoothly. Firefox also supports CSS 3D Transforms, which lets developers animate and transform two dimensional elements into 3D using HTML5 without the need for third-party plugins.

You can find out full details of the new developer tools in Firefox over at the Mozilla Blog.

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McAfee Mobile Security Gets Update

There’s nothing like having your mobile phone secured and with McAfee updating their app for Android, Blackebrry and Symbian devices, you can be sure you’re covered against mobile viruses.

McAfee has recently announced an update to its Mobile Security to 2.0 and will now include a wide array of features such as the Complete Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Anti-phishing Protection and even call filtering.

Android users even get an added bonus as they will be able to run McAfee’s App Protection.  What the App Protection does is to evaluate a given app of your choosing and McAfee tells you what data it is accessing and how it is transmitting it. Good for those times you want to make sure how the app uses your personal data.

The update is free to current users of McAfee. If you’re a first time user, the app will cost $29.99.  A worthy investment if you’re using your smartphone frequently.

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Nexus S 4G Ice Cream Sandwich ROM Leaked

The leaked Android 4.0 ROM seems to be an official release and has been published on the XDA Developers Forums, and reports it version as 4.0.4. Once installed it was also discovered that the leaked ROM also provided an update to the handsets baseband.

Google started rolling out an update to Ice Cream Sandwich for the GSM version of its Nexus S back in December last year, however an update for the 4G version, has never been announced. The leak of the new ROM reveals that here is an update in the works and could be landing on devices very soon.

First impression of the leaked ROM provide positive feedback with reports of faster WiMAX speeds with the new baseband installed. Jump over to the XDA Forums if you would like to try the leaked ROM out for yourself, with full instructions on how to complete the installation. Enjoy!

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Apple Motion 5.0.2 Update Rolls Out, Adding Improved Speed And Responsiveness

Joining the new update rolled out by Apple today for their Final Cut Pro X video editingsoftware. Apple has also rolled out an update for its Motion  5.0.2 software. Motion 5 provides Final Cut Pro X users with additional tools to tweak and customise video footage, and is available to purchase for $50.

Enabling users to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. The new update released today is around 1.05GB in size and improves speed and responsiveness of text editing.

When first released the new Motion 5 packages was updated with an interface had been redesigned specifically for Final Cut Pro editors, with a familiar look and feel. Making it easy to switch between the two applications. A new single-window layout puts all the tools you need at your fingertips, and redesigned icons make it easy to identify options at glance.

The new Motion 5 update also brings with it improved overall stability and performance tweaks and is available as a download via the Mac App Store software on Mac OS X Lion.

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