I’ve been traveling a lot recently, and rather than bring my expensive original DVDs with me, I’ve been looking at different ways of backing them up using my Mac, so I can view them on the road, but not have to worry about accidentally leaving them in the hotel room. After researching, I’ve come up…
Category: geek
I, also, deem these results acceptable.
From a ling on Benito Cereno’s blog: the Wit (52% dark, 30% spontaneous, 21% vulgar) your humor style:CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you’re probably an intellectual, but don’t take that to mean pretentious. You realize ‘dumb’ can be witty–after all isn’t that the Simpsons’…
TiVo To Go (sorta) for Mac OS X
No, they haven’t released TiVo To Go for the Mac (and it’s looking less and less likely as the years pass), but I did find this great article on How to decrypt .tivo files on OS X (a pragmatic approach). It does require Virtual PC, yes, but looks to be a good guide on how…
Podcasting
I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a podcast with some colleagues to talk about tip and tricks in a particular video editing app (and another, reviewing older movies with a film-school educated pal of mine), and now that Apple has added native podcast support to iTunes, it seems there’s no time like the…
Serenity HD Trailer Gone
Not sure why, but the page for the HD version of the Serenity trailer has disappeared, although the standard size trailers are still there. I notice, though, if you click the “Trailers” link on the main movie page, there is a “High Definition option under Windows Media, and now QuickTime. What gives?
Ooh, shiny…
We have a shiny new Mac mini running Tiger Server hosting the sties now, and aside from a really stupid mySQL change on Apple’s part, everything went remarkably smoothly. Yay!
Gigabit Ethernet Connections
Yesterday, we had quite a scare. We had run CAT5e cable throughout the ceilings and walls of the office, but when we plugged them into the gigabit Ethernet switch, none of the link lights lit up. We were dumbfounded. All of this cable had tested fine. We tried shorter cable, different cable, none of it…