Adding formats to Quicktime player
If you find the Quicktime video player too restrictive in its playback capabilities especially with avi and flv format video then install Perian, a plugin for Quicktime that adds codecs to playback...
View ArticleMassive online backup solutions for the Mac
As disk space has become more affordable we have moved more and more data onto larger and larger drives. But as we store more the issue of backup becomes ever so critical. When we were just moving to a...
View ArticleTiVo introduces an online Season Pass manager
Tivo rarely gets any credit for the small incremental yet useful improvements to their product line. This week they quietly introduced an online Season Pass manager. You can now manage your TiVo season...
View ArticleSpeed up your webpages with Namebench
Changing your network settings to a faster DNS server is a quick way to improve your web page load times. Most users will default to the DNS settings provided by their ISP (Comcast in my case). I found...
View ArticleFocus stacking
When the whole photograph cannot be rendered in sharp focus the concept of focus stacking is needed to blend parts of two or more photographs to give the illusion that the picture was taken in focus....
View ArticleNotes on computer backup
Over the years I have had more than my share of hard drive failures. As more and more of our lives are in the form of digital photos and videos, a dead drive without backups creates a lot of...
View ArticleiTunes home sharing, dlink routers and multicast
Introduction I have been tinkering with network audio. So far I had been just streaming The audio around the home but now I want to actually move it for higher bitrate conversion. The goal is to play...
View ArticleCrashplan crashing? Here is the fix
I use Crashplan for backup. It is my current favorite for online could backup. More about that in my recent blog post about backups. As much as I love crashplan it has been hanging with an error...
View ArticleHow to convert a large MKV file to Quicktime using handbrake
Introduction Blu-ray movie titles and video from a hi-def video recorder are in an MKV format. Many consumers would like to view these on either and Apple TV or an iOS device. This viewing will require...
View ArticleEnable AirDrop Over Ethernet & AirDrop On Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7
I have been using Airdrop, the new zero configuration peer to peer transfer that was introduced in Lion. Unfortunately it was only available if both macs were using wifi to connect to the network. In...
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