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Continue reading →: Mac Audio programs
OK, I just love MP3DirectCut for edtiing MP3s, MP3Tag for editing tags and filenames, ffdshow for codecs galore and DMC for conversions, LAME for MP3 encoding and ExactAudioCopy for CD copying but what are the Mac equivalents. Well, “Pure-mac.com”:http://pure-mac.com/audio.html has a good list and their “MP3”:http://pure-mac.com/mp3.html. I also checked out…
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Continue reading →: Mac Antivirus
Besides Norton and Mcafee which both offer pay anti-virus, “ClamXav”:http://www.pure-mac.com/virus.html is freeware. It by the way claims that there are no viruses that target OS X which is amazing if true. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: The latest shootout of HD Camcorders
The “HV20”:http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/The-Great-HD-Shoot-Out—Canon-HV20-Sony-HDR-HC7-Panasonic-HDC-SD1-JVC-GZ-HD7/Conclusion.htm wins vs the Sony HDR-HC7, Panasonic HDC-SD1 and JVC GZ-HD7. Mainly because of sharpness and low noise performance. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: HDR
“Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com came by and showed me his incredible HDR photos. You use a feature called automatic exposure bracketing to take multiple photos of the same still scene (you have to a tripod to do this). The software at “HDRSoft.com”:http://hdrsoft.com called Photomatix then takes the images and combines them into a…
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Continue reading →: Xcode Developer Tools
“Macworld”:http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/installxcode/index.php says “Xcode Developer Tools”:http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ is a great toolset to have for us power users. Even if we don’t write code. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Colorvision Spyder2Pro and Mac OSX
The most important thing is to get the monitor calibrated. I don’t completely understand Mac color management, but “Colorvision”:http://colorvision.com has a Mac application thank goodness. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: SDHC Cards
The Nikon d40x uses the high speed SDHC flash card. You can now get 4GB versions of these things. Canon uses the bigger CompactFlash card. “Sandisk”:http://www.dpreview.com/news/0607/06071701sandisk4gbsdhc.asp for instance has one that is 2MBps or Class 2. As an aside an SD card is 2GB or less, an SDHC card is…
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Continue reading →: Mac Bit Torrent
“Utorrent”:http://utorrent.com seems like the nicest client for Windows, but what about the Mac? “Mac-P2P.com”:http://www.mac-p2p.com seems like a good overview site for good Mac clients, but “TorrentFreak.com”:http://torrentfreek.com/mac-bt-clients has a good list of BitTorrent clients on the Mac. The net is that Azureus is popular and so is “Transmission”:http://transmission.m0k.org/. As an aside…
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Continue reading →: WaterField Designs MacBook Pro Bag
I just love the “WaterField”:http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sizingpages/15-2.htm bags for our Sony’s, they have a similar sleeve option for MacBook Pro 15″ call their 15-2 line. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Mac OS X Codecs
The Macbook Pro comes with quicktime, I normally use Zoom Player and the open source FFDShow for playing on Windows, so what do I do on the Mac. Well, first “Quicktime”:http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html does have a bunch of components like that from “Divx”:http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/ and there is a shim to play “Xvid”: Alternatively,…
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