It seems the mini’s reach as a home entertainment appliance has spread to all corners of the world, doing a little surfing this morning SlimDevices, an external 160GB hard drive and a 42” Plasma. “When I started out I was looking for high-quality output rather than for economy,” he says. The Mac-based home-theatre system he [...]

Reading Jonathans ‘Headless Music Operation‘ post a few weeks ago, got me thinking about other possible solutions for selecting iTunes playlists or individual songs, without having to turn on the display. Last night I ran across this little app from Valencio.com, and you’ll need iTunes version 4.7.1. If you decide to give it a shot, [...]

This offer from Amazon, on the up-coming Tiger Mac OS release seems mighty appealing if you ask me. Tiger is slated to retail for $129.99, but if you Revenge of the Sith‘, and maybe even buy some popcorn. Edit: The rebate was removed by Amazon, no reason given. Second Edit: And its back again…. B.Greenway

This just in… Almost a year after HandBrake 0.6.2 was released, a first beta of HandBrake 0.7.0 is now available for download. New features include: – Chapters selection – Custom framerate – Subtitle support – Automatic check for update – Custom aspect ratio – Audio samplerate selection – mp4/H.264 output – Proper NTSC support – [...]

As someone who fervently follows all things hi-def I have to say I’m a little puzzled by some of the

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The CenterStage Project has finally released a public alpha. It’s very early to consider using this for much unfortunately. I would not recommend using it unless you like to try things that are not ready for prime-time. Sorry if that’s harsh guys… You can see the direction things are headed and that is certainly exciting. [...]

Long before the iMac was standard 512MB memory on board. And since I’m aiming high here, I saved the best two for last, while this next upgrade would likely push a revision up to almost 2006 or later, it would be well worth it. I’d like to see a Blu-ray drive in the next mini; [...]

I’m sure many of you have heard the announced this week. Apple has apparently thrown their support towards Blu-ray for high definition DVD playback, in Apple hardware. This doesn’t really come as any shock, as most IT’centric businesses have already seen the benefit to Blu-rays higher storage capacity, over HD-DVD. I have to say however, [...]

I just ran across this little item from Axentra, the Net-Box. Which is described as an “all-in-one digital home server appliance”, the literature actually mentions compatibility with the Mac mini (and Mac’s in general), obviously Axentra is aware of the potential for mini peripherals here. Let’s see what’s under the hood. Integrated gateway, router, firewall [...]