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Handbrake and Perian


Posted by Ian on 30 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



Handbrake 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 [...]

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Click To Flash


Posted by Ian on 30 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



Flash 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


Posted by Ian on 29 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



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


Posted by Ian on 29 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



One 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, [...]

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Secrets


Posted by Ian on 29 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



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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browsershots.org


Posted by Chris on 21 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment



We’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.

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