Archive for March, 2005

Mac home theater down under

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

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

SpeakTunes 1.0

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

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

Tiger pre-order rebate

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

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

Handbrake 0.7.0 Beta!

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

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
- AC3 [...]

Apple and high definition content delivery

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

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

The Mac Mini HTPC mobile edition

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

We’ve just added a mobile version of the site so you check in on the latest news and info via Phone/Palm/PPC or even narrowband if that’s what you have. The mobile version is the same content, without graphics and provides simple, yet complete navigation to everything we’ve been working on.
Feel free to check it [...]

CenterStage alpha

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

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 [...]

Apple Mac mini, rev. B wish list

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Long before the iMac was

Miscellaneous Apple bits

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

I’m sure many of you have heard the

Net-Box digital home server

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

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 and [...]