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- The Real Reason Leopard is Late
Ah, the Joy of Tech. The venerable geek cartoonists nail the Leopard delay with their strip today. Click through to see the full strip. Technorati Tags: joyoftech, leopard, software...
Ah, the Joy of Tech. The venerable geek cartoonists nail the Leopard delay with their strip today. Click through to see the full strip.
Technorati Tags: joyoftech, leopard, software
Pete Mortensen - Convert BitTorrent Video for AppleTV
Owners of a shiny new AppleTV who are also fans of obscure foreign TV shows like Life on Mars or Doctor Who Series 3 might be interested in VisualHub. VisualHub is a $23 video converter that transforms popular BitTorrent formats...
Owners of a shiny new AppleTV who are also fans of obscure foreign TV shows like Life on Mars or Doctor Who Series 3 might be interested in VisualHub.VisualHub is a $23 video converter that transforms popular BitTorrent formats (DivX, XviD, AVI, all forms of MPEG) to MP4 format -- which play nice on the AppleTV or video iPods.
VisualHub can batch process files and automatically add them to iTunes. It offers encoding up to 720p and claims to be much faster than QuickTime Pro.
For Windows users, there's Videora AppleTV Converter, a free video converter designed especially for the AppleTV.
When combined with Videora, a file search and download program, video can be automatically found, downloaded and converted for the AppleTV using BitTorrent and RSS, according to the site. This must be the killer app for AppleTV -- if it works. I'm downloading it right now to find out.
Anyone tried it?
lkahney - AppleTV: A Comprehensive User Review
Thomas Fitzgerald spent some quality time with his AppleTV and wrote up this thorough and interesting review. His conclusion? It's a great product, well thought out and executed. It is the Apple TV's integration with iTunes that makes it a...
Thomas Fitzgerald spent some quality time with his AppleTV and wrote up this thorough and interesting review. His conclusion? It's a great product, well thought out and executed.
It is the Apple TV's integration with iTunes that makes it a truly fantastic product. Again it's the little things. When you watch something on your iPod, and then sync it, it knows your playback position. When you watch a podcast, (if you set it to sync only recent episodes) it removes it and sends the next episode (but cleverly it waits till you have watched it to the end before it does so) Synching seems to happen often and as soon as you change something it will sync. It's pretty impressive and seamless. Another cool thing is that if you have slideshows set up in iPhoto when you sync your photos it remembers the music you had set with that slide show. I know it's simple little thing, but it just struck me as being indicative of the seamless integration across all Apple's products, that competitors just can't or don't want to achieve.
...Even if you live outside the US and don't have access to movies and TV shows on iTunes there are plenty of ways to get content onto the Apple TV. Two must have pieces of software are mediafork (aka handbrake) and visual hub. Visual hub does an excellent job of transcoding all those divx movies you may have acquired through whatever method you may have acquired them (and I'll make no comment or suggestions on that topic) with no significant loss in quality, which is a pretty impressive feat. Media fork does a similar job with DVDs.
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