Good-Bye Desktop PC, Hello iPhone

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

(Via MyAppleMenu.) by Lance Ulanoff, PC MagazineThe vast majority of consumers and businesspeople simply need their PCs to handle e-mails, web browsing, instant messaging, phone calls, word processing, videos, and photos. If they can get all of this from something that fits in their pocket and is ready to do their ...

HandBrake 0.9.2 adds AppleTV Take 2 support

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

(Via MacNN.) A new version of the DVD ripping tool, HandBrake v0.9.2, has been released. HandBrake is open-source utility that converts DVDs into the MPEG-4 format. The new release incorporates many major and exciting changesóincluding full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. This release is ...

Netflix axes HD DVD; will carry high-def DVDs only in Blu-ray format

Monday, February 11th, 2008

(Via MacDailyNews - Where Mac News Comes First.) With the industry now having picked a winner in the face-off between the two competing high- definition DVD formats...

Best Buy to push Blu-ray over HD DVD

Monday, February 11th, 2008

(Via MacNN.) Large-scale retailer Best Buy this afternoon unsettled the HD video industry by announcing that it would promote Blu-ray over HD DVD. The chain had originally claimed to remain platform-neutral but now says Blu-ray will be its "preferred" format and will reflect this choice in its stores. Blu-ray ...

Minis in Iowa

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Could be my summer ...

Greatest political video ever?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

(Via Joho the Blog.) I found the DipDive video to be emotionally overwhelming. Granted, I’m an Obama supporter. But reminding supporters why their candidate matters more than most candidates ever have is not such a little thing. This is the organization that made that video. Go Obama!

VisualHub 1.29.0

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

(Via Mac Aggregate Tracker.)  Convert video formats. (Demo) convert video to apple tv, iphone, dvd, ipod, psp, tivo, avi, wmv, flv

It’s official MediaFork is now Handbrake

Monday, March 5th, 2007

(Via Apple Gazette.) It’s official MediaFork is now Handbrake In a blog post this weekend, it was officially announced that MediaFork nad Handbreak have merged together. The next beta release will be called Handbreak, and it will be released in the next 2 to 3 weeks. It’s nice to see the projects coming back ...