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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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AT&T Pay As You Go works with iPhone 3G

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, if you are a massive data user, the iPhone 3G makes a lot of sense. But what if you want the nice iPhone interface but don’t want to pay the incredibly high $30/month data charges, what do you do. Well, some choices are:

Get a iPhone first generation on the “grey market”. Yes it will [...]

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Mac Excel function keys

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Mac 101: Reclaim your function keys – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The folks at Bitbox have described the simple steps needed to get some of that old flexibility back. First, launch system preferences and click the “Keyboard” tab. Next, select the “Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys” option.
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