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How to: Quick and Easy Video for the iPhone, Apple TV and new iPods

05:42 | Kevin Edwards | Mar 5th, 2008 5:03pm |

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 ...

Demo: AtTask Project and Portfolio Management

05:14 | Brad Baldwin | Oct 31st, 2007 |

AtTask’s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the ...
On location at iPhone DevCamp

24:52 | Michael Bazeley | Jul 9th, 2007 |

Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow developers to write applications for the phone itself, so ...
iPhone: One Week Later

19:47 | Michael Cote | Jul 6th, 2007 |

Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s ...
A Carnival in the Apple Store Line, iPhone Mania!

03:19 | Jeremiah Owyang | Jun 29th, 2007 |

Jeremiah Owyang does his signature walkthrough through the Palo Alto Apple Store customers waiting patiently for the iPhone to go on sale in a few hours. Over 100 people showed up, camped out, in anticipation for this revolutionary communication device.
What will Apple do with all that crazy iPod money?

07:12 | Michael Klinger | Jan 18th, 2007 |

Twelve b-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars in cash and more coming in with a billion in profit for the last quarter…. With these record earnings, what will Steve Jobs decide to do with all that crazy iPod money? Apple Voices’ Michael Klinger and Kevin Edwards discuss potential ways Apple could spend the ...
iPhone: Has Cingular Thrown in the Towel?

12:47 | Jason Lopez | Jan 9th, 2007 |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested in his MacWorld 2007 keynote that the new iPhone can connect to the Internet via WiFi. Really? And Cingular is okay with that? A reading of the description on Apple’s Web site seems to confirm it. “iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a ...