Tutorial: How to Play DIVX & XVID on your APPLE TV

Tutorial: How to Play DIVX & XVID on your APPLE TV
The two biggest Apple TV limitations are the lack of codec support (like XviD, DivX, etc.) and not even having the ability to do basic surround sound like Dolby Digital 5.1. These issues were resolved almost immediately after the Apple TV was released, although the hacks were somewhat less than practical.

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Man deletes /usr, blames Apple for his mistake!

Man deletes /usr, blames Apple for his mistake!
I like OS X as much as the next guy, but man do we Apple users deserve some of the flak we get. With articles like this one floating around then it's no wonder Mac users have a poor reputation with some folks. The guy deleted /usr, and then blamed it on Apple! He states: "You can still cripple a Macintosh computer." ... No?! Surely you jest...

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Hack Attack: The Quicksilver video extravaganza

Hack Attack: The Quicksilver video extravaganza
Today I've rounded up my favorite, most frequently used Quicksilver actions and workflows in one big old Quicksilver extravaganza. If you've followed along so far but you still just don't get how you might put Quicksilver to practical, everyday use, here's how I do it.

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Apple: No, You Can't Have Your Data Back, We're Keeping It (update)

Apple: No, You Can't Have Your Data Back, We're Keeping It (update)
"Perhaps you recall Chris who had the "unrecoverable" hard drive that Apple wouldn't let him keep? Chris was concerned that Apple was incorrect, and that the disk might in fact be recoverable by someone, and so he wanted it back. He asked nicely. He offered money. Sadly, nothing worked. Apple's policy was to keep the disc."

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How long did it take products to reach 100 million units? iPod holds record

How long did it take products to reach 100 million units? iPod holds record
...give Apple credit. It took Sony 13.5 to sell its first 100 million Walkmen units. The PS2, hits 100 million in 5 years and 8 months, and the original PlayStation, took 10 years. Niintendo's Gameboy got there in 11 years!

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Daring Fireball: Some facts about AAC

Daring Fireball: Some facts about AAC
John Gruber of Daring Fireball debunks many misconceptions about the AAC audio format that iTunes uses. "There are some people who have long insisted that Apple
’s grand scheme for the iPod and iTunes hinges on proprietary file format lock-in, and I think what they’re doing now is grasping for some way to continue making this argument."

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Stolen Laptop Pics Not a Hoax After All - Gizmodo

Stolen Laptop Pics Not a Hoax After All - Gizmodo
London--Stolen laptop posts images of thieves to website, check out the pics to see if you can identify the people.

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High school teens say they'll plunk down $500 for iPhone

High school teens say they'll plunk down $500 for iPhone
Though it hasn't yet hit the market, most high school students (84 percent) are already aware of Apple's iPhone device, with a significant number those who are away (25 percent) saying they will fork over the $500 to make one their own, a recent study has shown.

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Automate Your BitTorrent TV Downloads on OS X

Automate Your BitTorrent TV Downloads on OS X
Downloading your favorite TV show is much easier than it was a few years ago with the help of torrent indexing sites and great software. With the arrival of the open source TVShows application, the whole thing just got even easier.

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Mac tip: One iPhoto library to rule them all

Mac tip: One iPhoto library to rule them all
How to sync your iPhoto library across Macs...

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First 3rd-party app for iPhone appears on Apple's site

First 3rd-party app for iPhone appears on Apple's site
Scenario Poker by Scenario Software is a Texas Hold ‘em poker game in the form of a widget that lists among its features the line “Designed for the size of iPhone’s touch screen”. It seems to also support touch sensitive controls in addition to standard mouse click i

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Have your Mac say Bonjour to tout le monde

Have your Mac say Bonjour to tout le monde
Your Mac speaks more French than you think: the story of Wide-Area Bonjour and the (dynamic) DNS.

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