Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way to encode video for all of Apple’s latest products.
This small device simply plugs into any Intel or PowerPC based Mac with a USB port (USB 2 is highly recommended). All of the heavy processing normally done by your computer is offloaded onto the Turbo.264 encoder, resulting in much faster encoding and freeing up your Mac for other tasks.
The older and slower your Mac, the more significant the speed increase will be with this device. We found the Turbo.264 encoded video up to 20 times faster on a G4, but even on higher end Intel based Macs, encoding times were drastically improved with the Turbo.264.
The Elgato Turbo.264 goes for about $90 on Amazon.com, making it a very inexpensive way to bring new life to an old Mac as a video encoding workstation.
The new software for the Turbo.264 couldn’t be any easier to use. As with the earlier ...
What is human computer interaction? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley explains that human computer interaction is making computers (technology) available to people. Macintosh is an early example of this. According to John Steve Jobs of Apple was a key entrepreneur and agent in making this happen, but lot ...
MicroNet makes external storage products for individual systems (PC and Macintosh) as well as Network Attached Storage devices. The PlatinumNAS Network Attached Storage Unit in this video compares quite well with competitor models. It’s small, quiet, easy to administer, and looks good on the shelf.
He’s funny, articulate and generally regarded as a visionary. In this interview Guy Kawasaki talks about his latest venture, Truemors.com, but not until he tells us why “life is good” for anyone wanting to venture out on the net. Whether you watch this for the advice or the ...
With the iPhone hitting the stores this past weekend, the post-PC on-demand era entered into warp speed - marked by an appropriately frenzied atmosphere in front of Apple’s Palo Alto store. Bill Atkinson, designer of the hypercard (and a member of the Apple Macintosh development team), was even amongst ...
In part 1 of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs Keynote, Electronic Arts and ID Software showed new games and a commitment to the Macintosh OS X platform.
Note: Due to technical issues, this podcast is not up to PodTech quality standards. Additional coverage from WWDC 2007 will ...
The Apple WWDC 2007 keynote with Steve Jobs is this Monday, June 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to come to PodTech where, as like last year, you can start listening to the Apple WWDC Steve Jobs Keynote podcast before Steve Jobs finishes speaking. The ...
Jeremy Mehrle has turned the basement of his suburban St. Louis home into one of the coolest private computer museums you will ever see. He has 74 vintage Apple Macintosh computers impeccably displayed. All of them are fully-functional so you can see what the old operating systems were like. ...
ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job to do this full time).
At the Apple 2006 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Steve Jobs went over the new features of “[tagLeopard[/tag]”, the next evolution of the OS X operating system for the Macintosh.
1. Full native support for 64-bit apps – 64-bit UNIX 64-bit Carbon and Cocoa, while still ...
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There was a big collective exhale at MacWorld. The Mac faithful didn’t get a cool new form factor. They probably got something better. The big change was on the inside of Macintosh. Here’s podcast number 6 of 8 covering the keynote speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the 2006 ...
Microsoft Executive on Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Competing, Web 2.0 and more. “The IP platform is the broadest standard since oxygen maybe even water!”
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