Category: Product Reviews (Page 5 of 7)

So you’re a startup scrambling to make a demo video for a trade show, and you desperately need some audio effect. With Audio Hijack Pro by Rogue Amoeba, you can record any audio, from any source, at any time.

Audio Hijack Pro lets you record calls in Skype and iChat with one click of your mouse. It also lets you gather audio from microphones, Skype, iTunes and other audio sources into one file for distribution through RSS (podcasts).

You can even digitize your old tapes and LPs and effortlessly bringing them into iTunes, mixing the audio from separate programs into one usable file. Read More...

Rogue Amoeba has created a lot of heat with their audio editing software Fission. It’s beautifully designed and super simple to use. What Fission lacks in features, it makes up for in simplicity.

With Fission, you get lossless editing of audio files, including MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats. That’s right, you can edit compressed MP3 and AAC files without any loss in quality and without worrying about going back to the master copy. This saves time.

Keep in mind that Fission isn’t a deluxe audio editing suite with features galore. In fact, it only offers a handful of basic features, which include copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. The purpose of Fission isn’t to do everything but to do a few things really well. In this, it accomplishes its goal. If you want a user-friendly losses audio editor, add Fission to your tool chest.

If you’re looking for exceptional screencasting software, Screenium is it.  It’s perfect for Mac users who want to record video and audio captured from their desktops.

You can use Screenium for all sorts of things, including creating software demos, recording online gaming sessions, making how-to videos, and providing tech support.

The first thing that jumps out at you is the flexibility.  Screenium let’s you record a fixed area, full screen, a mouse area, or a single windows.  You can record exactly what you see anywhere on your screen and make it a screencast with a few clicks.  It’s very intuitively laid out, so you don’t have to wade through menus to figure this out. Read More...

Let me start by saying Android has come a long way in the past year.  It has actually caught up to iOS.  So which one should you get if you’re looking for your next phone?

Android Pros:

* Great operating system Read More...

Naomi Kokubo

by Naomi Kokubo, Editor of Founders Space

If you’re thinking of getting a gift for your kids, nephews, nieces or friends, why not start them on the path to entrepreneurship.  There’s nothing like experience to get a young (or old) mind thinking of starting their own company someday.   Since most people aren’t about to found a real company, the next best thing is to start a virtual one in a simulated game world. Read More...

In the early days, before the ubiquity of stern-faced, wingless cardinals, Carlos Icaza needed to search, well, he nearly had to troll, the Internet for games built on his company’s mobile-app publishing software. Icaza, co-founder of Corona Labs, wanted to feature them on the company’s website. When Corona Labs’ program, Corona, caught on, Icaza then had 10 messages from developers each day, all using Corona, all wanting Icaza to showcase them.

This year alone has seen the creation of 6,000 Corona-based apps, including an upcoming game tie-in to Warner Brother’s Dolphin Tale. In the past, several reached iTunes’ and Android Market’s Top 10. The program’s popularity rests on two aspects, says Icaza, who quite Adobe with co-founder Walter Luh to start Corona Labs. First, for $349 a year, Corona allows a developer to build an app and then publish it simultaneously in Android and iPhone formats. This cuts down on hiring engineers to build separate Android and iPhone apps and the time expended on fixing the bugs in both versions. “We came from a world where we knew that you didn’t just write for just one platform,” Icaza says.

Read the full article on Inc. TECH

Walt Hollis

We’ve been using Walt Hollis for our startup’s medical insurance, and he’s fantastic.  He really knows his stuff.  Walt has been in the medical insurance industry for 23 years, 12 of those years as an executive with Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente, and for the last 11 years he has run his own agency and launched www.medicalplanquotes.com.

He represents all of the major carriers in California and specializes in small business and personal plans.  He has close to 500 small business clients and over 1,000 clients with personal plans.  And the best thing about Walt is that he responds to your questions the same day.  No waiting around. Read More...

Marcum LLP is a big supporter of Founders Space and our entrepreneurs. We highly recommend their services to all of our members.

Marcum is also one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked within the top 15 firms by Inside Public Accounting and Accounting Today, Marcum offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Grand Cayman, China and Hong Kong. The Firm’s presence runs deep with full service offices strategically located in major business markets.

Marcum provides a number of services to startups and entrepreneurs, including… Read More...

The Enterprise Tomorrow Conference will work with you to place perspective around the growing trends by defining each, outlining the benefits they propose and the steps that need to be taken to implement and adapt each. The five themes addressed will be as follows: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Social Communication, Enterprise Mobility, and Gamification. Over 20 learning sessions spanned across three full conference days will provide best practices and use cases for increased productivity, management techniques and new enterprise technologies. This three day event will take place in San Francisco on September 13-15th 2011. Go to www.enterprisetomorrow.com or call 888.409.4418 x10 for information or to register. Use code ALLIE10 when registering to receive 10% off!

Venture Engine Startup Competition And Demo Exhibition

First ever Enterprise Tomorrow start-up competition geared towards up in coming companies that have created revolutionary enterprise technologies that will change the way work is done worldwide. The 7 VentureEngine finalists will present their ready for market products to a panel of VC’s, Angels, Industry Leaders and the entire audience base, with the chance to win one of two CASH grand prizes. Go to www.ventureenginestartup.com to enter your innovative idea or product!