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I recently had the opportunity to try out the Elgato Turbo.264 HD encoder/accelerator.
The device does what it claims… it transcodes most any type of video file and produces an H.264 file formatted for your device (iPhone, iPod, AppleTV, BeyondTV, etc.). The processing time is (more or less) equal to the length of the video. e.g. [...]
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Andy Ihnatko has a review of the Air Sharing iPhone app at the My Digital Life Podcast & Blog.
Of particular interest to me… Andy says:
“Music and video are both formats that the iPhone OS can simply view outside of the iPod app. If I just copy it into my Air Share, I can play it [...]
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The excellent bookmark sync tool is not available for Safari. That’s great news for those (like me) who use both Firefox and Safari for different reasons.
Thanks, Foxmarks!
Download it at Foxmarks.com
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Mail.app seems to get slower and slower. Plus it crashes at least once a week. As I started looking around the web to find a solution I ran across this post from Tim Gaden at his blog: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/
He describes this solution:
Open Terminal, then run these three commands:
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ [...]
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Dropbox is a service that allows you to keep files synchronized across multiple machines (and multiple platforms).
Click through and checkout the video. It’s pretty slick!
Here is some additional info from ars technica.
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I can never remember the path to the hosts file on my MacBook Pro. So, here it is:
sudo nano /private/etc/hosts
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Products like Spanning Sync allow you to sync your iCal with your Google calendar. Now Google has a new service called “Google Calendar CalDAV” that allows you to do the same thing.
Details at: Enable Google Calendar in iCal
I tried it and it works very good. Everything sync’d within a couple of minutes (I have a [...]
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I use wget all the time on my Linux machines, but was surprised to find it missing on my MacBook Pro. Since Mac OS is based on BSD, it uses cURL instead. Here’s a good way to scrape files from a remote server.
curl -O http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21171/mp3/21171-[01-24].mp3
Man page is available at: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
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After playing with an iPhone for a few weeks, here are a few of my biggest gripes:
Shorter battery life than my Blackberry
Slower email composition (more steps)
No keyboard shortcuts
No consolidated Inbox
Ergonomics: isn’t as comfortable in my hand
No visual indicator for waiting email/voicemail without checking screen
No voice dialing
No chat
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