Elgato Turbo.264 HD – My Thoughts

Elgato Turbo.264 HD – My Thoughts

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...

Copy Files To Your iPhone

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...

Foxmarks: Now for Safari Too!

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

Speed Up Mail.app

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...

Hosts File on Mac

I can never remember the path to the hosts file on my MacBook Pro. So, here it is: sudo nano /private/etc/hosts