Check out the first Photoshop icon. It is literally a photo shop (a 1-hour photo shop, that is). (via Cocoia)
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A Melbourne-based team is in the process of developing a chip capable of short-range (10 meters) wireless transmissions with data throughput of up to 5Gbps. The team is about a year away from marketing the chip. This sort of technology could open some interesting possibilities with iPods and iPhones and their interaction with other devices. [...]
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This morning, EyeTV notified me that there is an update. Here is a link to the details – Update EyeTV 3. Bug fixes include: An occasional hang when exporting to Apple TV and iPod formats has been resolved. A problem when trying to activate tvtv service after upgrading from EyeTV 2 has been resolved. EyeTV [...]
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A group of Princeton computer scientists has published a paper(pdf) demonstrating a method for accessing a computer’s memory to gain access to encryption keys. Contrary to popular belief, RAM contents are not immediately erased once a computer is shut down. It can take 2.5 to 35 seconds for the data to fade away. This time [...]
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Paramount Home Entertainment has become the sixth and final major motion picture studio to commit to the Blu-ray format. Universal made the same commitment a couple days following Toshiba’s official statement concerning their backing out of HD DVD support. “We are pleased that the industry is moving to a single high-definition format, as we believe [...]
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Fossil introduced two new limited edition watches – a men’s Superman collectible watch (LL1037) with a limited run of only 1,000 pieces and a Batman Dark Knight collectible watch (LL1040) with a limited run of only 2,000 pieces. I thought the last superman watch was nice, but this new one looks as good or better. [...]
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Do balloons sound like a feasible solution for the infrastructure of a wireless network? I don’t think so, but a company called Space Data is trying exactly that — sending up many transceiver-equipped balloons every day, in order to create a large-scale wireless network. While the balloons are cheap and disposable at $50 a pop, [...]
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For those of you who bought a library of HD DVDs before Toshiba jumped ship, Wired has a nice write-up detailing what is involved in converting an HD DVD to Blu-ray format. Below is an HD DVD ROM and some Blu-ray burners and media to get you started. $26.99 – memorex 25GB 4X BD-R 30 [...]
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The new version of HandBrake will now read from the MPEG transport streams that EyeTV captures in HD. WooHoo! It was a bit frustrating that the previous version wouldn’t accept these high quality files. HandBrake will also detelecine your videos if that is something you need.
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HandBrake 0.9.2 has been released with many improvements, but it is compatible with Leopard only. This is my main conversion utility for creating iPod compatible video files. It’s fast and the files it produces look great. Apple fans will be delighted over: Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, for a true DVD experience [...]
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