Transferring video from your Comcast DVR to your Mac

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I wanted to get a TV show from my Comcast DVR and burn it onto a DVD that I could play at a later time… I know most of you are thinking, “Wait… why wouldn’t you just hook up a DVD recorder to your cable box via firewire and hit record?”

Well, I suppose I wanted a challenge. Anyway, I thought I would pass it along for your general consumption. This is written by a video newbie, for a newbie… This is educational only. Don’t steal stuff… don’t break copyrights, etc. I did this as an adventure into video formats… I hope you find it enlightening. I am not a video professional. I am a casual consumer mac user… I know you are probably smarter than me. If you have useful comments, please leave them.

Perhaps some one else has figured this out already… but if not, I’ll share how I got it working.

First things first.  I have Comcast Digital Cable (in Denver, CO) with a motorola DCT-3412 DVR.  I am running Tiger on an original 500Mhz Titanium powerbook. (I know…. a real screamer - but the good news is, your mac is probably better than mine, and therefore it should do all of this…. just faster!)

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Top Five Cases for iPhone

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Nobody could argue anything other than the Apple iPhone was the best new cell phone released in 2007. Incredible design, off-the-wall looks, marketing and usability. The iPhone re-wrote the book on mobile phones and many of the newer phones coming on the market are attempting to copy or better Apple’s design.

But possibly one of the best features of the iPhone is the frankly incredible range of accessories being made by just about every manufacturer on the planet. Every one wants a piece of the iPhone. Cases are a case in point (sic). But which case is right for you, and more importantly, which case will do the best job of protecting your shiny new iPhone while maintaining it’s usability and looks?Here are the five best iPhone cases, ranked by the Knowles destructotest™ method.

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Deals: REFURBISHED - Unibody Macbook $1399

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Why spend more during times of economic hardships. You may very well spend them on refurb Apple products that come at a cheaper price compared to the newer ones.

The unibody macbook is now selling at the Apple Store ( Refurbished ) for $1399.

Specs

2.4GhZ Intel core 2duo processor

2GB DDR3 memory

250GB Hard drive

Leopard

iSight

Multi-touch Glass trackpad

link to the deal is here

Use iPhone App to vote for Oscars

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According to an article published by Macworld, iPhone users can use the $1 Sonic lighter App can be used as a voting machine for your favourite Oscar nominee. Slumdog is leading the way.. Smule can be used to track the votes whenever any user launches the App.

Source: Macworld.com

Sonic lighter

Tricks: Enable Developer mode in Safari

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If you want to browse in a really uncluttered webspace, then this is the feature that you need to enable in Safari. 

Developer mode lets you to Disable images, caches, styles, java scrips, runaway java timer and also disable site specific hacks.

Its pretty simple to enable this mode.

Goto Safari Preference >> Advanced Tab >> Check Show Developer Mode in Menu Bar.

That’s it, your done for the day - You too a Developer now ;)

Macworld post for more info

Youtube user replays the story of Internet in a 8 min video

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Here is the video

Some more info from username ‘Picolsigns’ who posted the video above:
“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this movie on my website
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history
or on the PICOL-Project site where you can download a pre-release of the icons.
http://blog.picol.org/

 

Credits for subtitles:
(The correctness of the subtiles depends on the people listed down here)
English: Stefan Badragan | youtube.com/StevXtreme
Italian: Stefan Badragan
German: me
French: Arnaud ‘dehy’ DE MOUHY
Bulgarian: Andrian Georgiev
Chinese: Terry Lee
Portuguese (Brazilian): Guilherme Euler

Credits: Gizmodo (Jesus Diaz) - RSS feed

Deals: Boost your Mac with a Solid State Drive - $199

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Hey All you SSD fans,

Newegg has a 2.5″ form factor Solid state drive for sale on their “Shell Shocker section” - Link here

Specs:

General

Brand            OCZ

Series            Core Series V2

Model            OCZSSD2-2C120G

Device Type   Internal Solid state disk (SSD)

Dimensions

Width            3.95″

Depth            2.76″

Height           0.37″

Weight           2.72 oz.

Expansion / Connectivity

Form Factor     2.5″

Capacity          120GB

Interface Type  SATA II & Mini USB 2.0 Port

Features           RAID Support

Free App: Wallpaper Clock

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Wallpaper clock is a very nice application that has a wallpaper with an inlaid clock and it ticks.

Found a bunch of wallpapers too for the application. Freeware it is and so its featured !! Really cool.. 

Give it a shot. Link to download

Developers : http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclock/

Deals: Unibody macbook pro shows up again on Apple Store - $1699

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This is a screamer, though refurbished !!! Won’t last long - Unibody

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

15.4-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
2GB memory
250GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in iSight camera
Illuminated keyboard

nVidia 9400M + nVidia 9600MGT

Grab yours now !!!!!

Trivia: Identify ? AppStore is no Child’s Play …

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Who is the guy below ?

 - eldood -  [ App Store Wiz - Clue !! ]

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