Archive for the ‘apple’ Category

Updated Apple TV supports 1080p resolution

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I just upgraded my Apple TV with the new "Take Two" update. Everything works as promised, and I noticed one extra goodie in the video settings dialog. The Apple TV now natively supports 1080p video output! Attached photographic proof!

Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3

Friday, February 1st, 2008

With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline. The one downside to the Time Machine approach ...

10 steps to organize your digital life on OS X and Windows

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

In meat space my wife and I are far from organized. It's a real problem because we are always losing important things like our car keys. Unfortunately, this how-to won't help me solve that problem. In the digital world however, I'm extremely anal retentive and organized. ...

Setting up an automated workflow to convert files for Apple TV on OS X

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

With the arrival of my Apple TV yesterday I needed a solution to get my Xvix/WMV/Divx files converted and imported into iTunes so that I can watch them. I already have Quicktime Pro, which with the recent release added the ability to "Export to Apple TV". Since I ...