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My first impression of the iPad

jvallery — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:05:40 +0000

I’ve had the iPad now for 24 hours so I thought I’d write up my first impression. I’m no longer the Apple fan boy that I once was. I’m a bit more cynical about Apple these days so when I purchased my iPad I did it with eyes wide open. I opted for the cheapest [...]

Compare Apple TV shows in standard and high definition

jvallery — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:17:30 +0000

With all the news today from Apple, I think one of the most overlooked announcements was that TV shows are available now in HD. HD is sort of a vague term though and just really means higher resolution (more pixels) than a standard NTSC broadcast. They failed to tell us what resolution the new TV [...]

Updated Apple TV supports 1080p resolution

jvallery — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:06:53 +0000

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

jvallery — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:46:16 +0000

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 is that the data isn’t remotely stored. A [...]

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

jvallery — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:30:51 +0000

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. Everything is in its place and easily searchable. It [...]

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

jvallery — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:45:13 +0000

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 have a lot of files, and no [...]