News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
The Turbo.264 is a useful piece of kit if you find yourself regularly converting movies from one format to another. While you won't find much speed gain on newer Macs, older PowerPC machines will see a significant speed gain when converting movies. At $199 the Turbo 264 is more expensive than a software-only solution, but if you're serious about converting your videos, the cost of the unit will quickly pay for itself.
Danny Gorog | Jun 24, 2008
The Centro looks like another in the long line of Treo smartphones although, at 54mm wide, it's a little narrower and consequently easier to hold than its Treo forebears. There's the familiar Palm QWERTY keyboard sitting below a very nice 320x320 display. Typically, entry-level smartphones skimp on the screen but Palm has delivered an excellent touchscreen with good colour depth and brightness. However, will any of that be enough to counter the comin iPhone onslaught?
Anthony Caruana | Jun 17, 2008
You don't have to compromise capacity for portability anymore, with bus-powered pocket-sized drives now available with half a terabyte on board. First off the rank was Other World Computing's Mercury On-the-Go enclosure. It turns out to be no slouch at all in the performance department either.
Matthew JC. Powell | Jun 17, 2008
Think thoroughbred horses: the trick is to maintain and improve the bloodline. It’s proving to be a similar story in digicams. Take Canon’s IXUS series. IXUS was one of the earliest lines of camera to offer a small, stylish body shape, along with easy to access controls and above average specs. Looks good: works great. The IXUS 80 IS sits right up there: the Canon zoom has 3x optical power; the CCD has 8.0 megapixels so the maximum 3264x2448 pixel image will make a final print size of 37x28 cm at 225 dpi. The IXUS will also take movies at an SD aspect ratio of 4:3 and 640x480 pixels at 30 fps — but no wide screen! However, it can shoot a series of images in time lapse mode so you can capture a run of 640x480 pixel shots at intervals of one or two seconds over two hours.
Barrie Smith | Jun 11, 2008
Music should always be about fun and it's a word that is easily applied to this little application. Australian developer MachineCodex has been around a couple of years now with this app in various stages of beta, and version 1.0 of AudioCodex marks a milestone in the company's growth. So what can you do with it? AudioCodex is essentially an audio mashup tool with superb integration with Mac OS X's CoreAudio, iTunes and any Apple Loops you may have installed. The level of integration can't be overstated — serious work has gone into making AudioCodex a Mac experience from top to bottom.
David Holloway | Jun 3, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
