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Handbrake and Perian
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30 Dec 2009Handbrake is a great video ripping utility for the Mac. Handbrake was initially a DVD ripping tool which was always reliable but for video transcoding I relied on VisualHub. That was until the company behind VisualHub shuttered development. For a few months there was a bit of a gap in the Mac market but Handbrake [...]
Click To Flash
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30 Dec 2009Flash on the Mac is painful. Anytime I hit a website that uses flash my CPU usage takes a hit, along with my battery on the laptop. Not good. This is more obvious if it’s video content on Flash, particularly HD video. There are rumblings that Flash 10.1 will address some of the issues but [...]
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Reeder is an iPhone app built for Google Reader. Until now I’ve relied on Byline as my Google Reader client on the iPhone but I was disappointed by the sync speed on Byline. it could take ages to sync feeds which was pretty frustrating. I tried Reeder as the sync speeds were allegedly a lot [...]
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Hans Rosling and Gapminder
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29 Dec 2009One of my favourite TED video’s is by Hans Rosling. He makes statistics interesting and his presentation style is superb. His full set of TED video’s can be found here but of more interest is GapMinder.
Gapminder is a non-profit organisation founded by Rosling and his daughter which developed the software used in his video’s, software [...]
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Mac OS X is a great operating system but there are many settings that aren’t exposed to the user via a GUI, instead requiring typing in a command via terminal. Secrets is a database of hidden settings for Mac OS X. The website allow you to search by application and list all known secrets for [...]
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- Tags: apple, mac, Picks
browsershots.org
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21 Dec 2009We’ve taken a look at cross browser testing before on DigitalOutbox and it’s an important part of my day-job to ensure that websites are accessible across the maximum number of browser and operating systems possible. There are some very useful tools out there for this and http://www.browsershots.org definitely has its place on this list.
colorschemedesigner.com
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16 Dec 2009If you’re ever in a quandary over a colour scheme for a new website design, user interface or, for that matter, any design project then this is the pick for you. colorschemedesigner.com is a tool that enables even the most colour inept of us to generate a design palate that works.
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