Featured Freeware: CinemaForge (DownloadExaminer.com)
Featured Freeware: CinemaForge
This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features. CinemaForge’s polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand, the Tom Cruise of software if he weren’t into Scientology.
As a video converter, the application supports all expected formats. You also can choose to accompany any video with audio files of your choice rather than the original sound. When you click the digital-camera icon next to the File Input box, you’ll be able to browse your computer for still images to compile a video file. If you choose to perform this action, you can apply a few transition effects, determine the image interval, and add your own music files.
When last tested, CinemaForge still had some problems with audio conversion. The video slide show was generated quickly, but even upping the bit rate didn’t help the muddy audio quality. You can tweak certain aspects of your new video, including frame rate and quality. Cropping videos, applying a deinterlacing filter, and uploading videos to the Web are also options. Frustratingly, uninstallation must be done via the question-mark icon on the main interface. Despite the aforementioned quirks, though, CinemaForge is overall a solid piece of software.
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Step aside, Chrome, for Squirrelfish Extreme
Just about every browser out there now is trying to grab the crown for fastest performance for running JavaScript, the programming language that powers many increasingly sophisticated Web-based applications. The latest development is from the programmers behind Apple’s Safari.
Mozilla bragged earlier this month about TraceMonkey, a new JavaScript engine due to ship in Firefox 3.1 near the end of 2008. Next came Google’s Chrome, a leading feature of which is the performance of its V8 JavaScript engine. Now the WebKit programmers, whose open-source code is used in Apple’s Safari browser and the Konqueror browser of the KDE interface software sometimes used on Linux systems, have a new version of their JavaScript technology.
It’s called Squirrelfish Extreme, and the WebKit programmers said Thursday in a blog posting that it’s more than twice as fast as the first-generation Squirrelfish announced in June and more than three times faster than the current WebKit 3.1 version. They based their conclusions on one benchmark, SunSpider.
“SquirrelFish Extreme uses more advanced techniques, including fast native code generation, to deliver even more JavaScript performance,” the programmers said.
For details of Squirrelfish’s techniques–bytecode optimization, a polymorphic inline cache, a context-threaded just-in-time compiler, and a regular expression just-in-time compiler–check the WebKit blog.
Charles Ying also performed SunSpider tests that showed Squirrelfish beating Google’s V8 and Mozilla’s Tracemonkey on a 2.4GHz iMac.
WebKit's SquirrelFish Extreme is faster than its three-month-old predecessor on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.
(Credit: WebKit)
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