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VisualHub is dead, Handbrake is the answer?

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Sad comment, Visualhub based on ffmpeg worked great. I gladly paid for it. Now, I guess its off to find another product.The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
VisualHub is gone. There are no current plans to move VisualHub to open source. The underlying engine for much of the compression magic, ffmpeg, is already open-source and present in [...]

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Adeona laptop recovery

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence
We think this looks really useful, it’s a new and free service to help you get your laptop back if it is lost or stolen. Free and private solution, Adeona launched today, put together by researchers at Washington and California (San Diego) univerisites.
This is the first Open Source system [...]

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Operating System Share

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hitslink.com has a cool site. Shows installed base market share for computer hitting sites on the internet. Kind of interesting, although not clear how scientific. Certainly better than counting all those computers that are door stops these days for operating systems#

Operating System Share Windows 91% Mac 7.8% Linux [...]

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