iPad as 2nd Display

Your iPad can act as a second computer display within a Wi-Fi network.

Amazing, right? But there are caveats.

READ THESE REVIEWS FOR MORE INFO:

Air Display:

Add a second or even third monitor for $10 with Air Display!

App Turns iPad into Second Monitor for Mac

Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor, Without the Pain

$9.99 Air Display for iPhone, iPad , and iPod Touch by Avatron
Sys Reqs: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and 7

iDisplay:

app turns your iPad or iPhone into secondary screen – too good to be true?

VisualHub DISCONTINUED :(

I am sad to report that VisualHub has been DISCONTINUED!

If you have VisualHub or AudialHub, here are directions
on how to back them up for safe keeping:

READ: How to Back Up VisualHub and AudialHub
(iSquint is self-contained. just copy the app itself)

For anyone who has come to rely on it's excellent video conversion over the years the wait for the next app to replace it is over...

now use... ReduxEncoder 1.2.6 beta for Mac OS X 10.5
at The Blog of st373n

VLC Remote app for iPhone

"You already know that VLC is a highly portable multi-media player/server available for Mac, Windows, Linux, etc., capable of reading most audio and video formats (AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, WMV, ASF, FLV (Flash), MP3, MP4, OGG, AAC, FLAC, etc...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols." VLC playback Features

FREE VLC media player 1.0.3

Download VLC (Mac OS X 10.5 (PowerPC), 19 MB)

Now there's a FREE VLC Remote Control app for iPhone.
I downloaded mine straight from the App Store app.
There's also a paid version of VLC Remote that's allows you
to browse and select files, and manage your playlist.
At only $2.99 it was well worth it!

READ: VLC Remote App Controls The Baddest Media Player Via iPhone
by John Mahoney, GIZMODO.com

Pod to Mac: Transfer Software

"Pod to Mac is an iPod, iPad or iPhone to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Pod to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking."

Computer Requirements:

    * Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 or later
    * iTunes 8, 9 or later
    * A USB Connector for the iPod device


iPod Compatibility:
Works with all, iPods, iPhones and iPads including:

    * iPad (all generations)
    * iPhone (all generations)
    * iPod Classic (all generations)
    * iPod Touch (all generations)
    * iPod Shuffle (all generations)
    * iPod Nano (all generations)

This is a great "Crash Recovery Solution"
"If your computer crashed or you just bought a new one, Pod to Mac is the ideal solution to move your music back on to the computer. Simply download, install and click auto-transfer and everything will be back the way it was before."

Remote Control your Mac from iPhone

If you need or just want to control your Mac computer from your iPhone or iPod Touch here's a Macworld article by Christopher Breen on Rowmote for iPhone

and an older Macworld article by Dan Frakes on Apple’s Remote application for iPhone.

Gmail Voice & Video Chat

READ: Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat
by Justin Uberti, Software Engineer
on Google's Official Blog

YouTube Robot for Windows™

What is this post doing on an Apple blog?

Playing well with others.

"download and watch youtube video on computer
ipod, iphone, psp, zune, mobile phone."

YouTube Robot $34.95 Shareware at YouTubeRobot.com
Important: YouTube Robot is intended for use as a personal archiving tool only. Please respect the rights of the copyright holders of any material you get.

Of course you can use Apple Safari for Mac and Windows
to download from YouTube.com for free.

Use the FREE VLC video player, Mac and Windows to view.

Blu-ray Disc: New Format, New Size

The high capacity (25/50 GB) of the Blu-ray optical disc system in the same size as a CD/DVD is very encouraging, and with about twice the capacity of the HD-DVD system that was released on April 18 I can't see how this won't be the choice to replace DVDs.

Storage hounds drool...

YouTube: Broadcast Yourself

Search and watch videos and clips, and if you sign up for free you can upload your own videos!


YouTube.com

iChatUSBCam

"iUSBCam from Ecamm Network is an add-on for iChat which allows you to use a USB webcam for video conferencing. It also enables Chat video conferencing on Macs which otherwise fall below Apple's system requirements for conferencing.

For example, with iUSBCam, you can use a Logitech QuickCam for video chat, or an iSight with a 500 MHz iBook."

I bought this up quick to use with my iBot FireWire web cam.
SEE PREVIOUS POST: iBOT FireWire WebCam for Mac!

MPlayer better than QuickTime?

I installed MPlayer OS X 2 version 2.0 (v2.0b4),, and it plays many more formats than Apple's QuickTime Player.

"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies."

Wow, a totally flexible multi-media player!

iBOT FireWire WebCam for Mac!

Guess what I got for Christmas...




The iBOT from Orange Micro, Inc. is a FireWire web camera for Macintosh that totally knocks the socks off any other. The video is uncompressed, unlike USB models.

Exclusive FireWire Speed and Clarity
With a data transfer rate that's 33 times faster than traditional USB web cams, you'll experience a Video Frame Rate of 30 frames/second ­ that's the same speed as you see at your local movie theater. And that's with a big 640 x 480 image size in living color.

Using BTV View 4.0.1 and BTV Edit 4.1.1 you can view and edit.

General Features:
· 400 Mb/sec. IEEE 1394 compatible (camera consumes only 200 Mb/s bandwidth)
· Fully compatible with Macintosh and PC / Windows
· Non-compressed full-motion digital video at rates of 30 Frames/sec @ 640 x 480
· 1/4" Color CCD Image Sensor
· 62 degree angle of view
· Effective Pixels: 659 x 494
· Frame size up to 640 x 480
· Focusable lens from 1cm to infinity
· Supports YUV 4:1:1, YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:4:4, and RGB 24-bit formats
· Millions of colors (24 bit)
· Supports Plug-and-Play specification
· Supports up to 2 cameras per bus simultaneously
· iBOT pro Version includes microphone for Mac and/or PC

Cable / Connector:
· 6 foot cable with 6 pin IEEE 1394 FireWire connector
· 3.5mm Mac PlainTalk adapter included (systems not equipped with a 3.5mm microphone jack will require a USB adapter)
· 3.5mm sound card microphone input for PC

System Requirements:
The following Extensions must be in your Apple System/Extensions folder for iBOT to function:
FireWire Enabler
FireWire Support
FW iBOT Camera Extension
QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler
QuickTime FireWire DV Support

Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

When video editing from a Macintosh using the iBOT, Orange Micro recommends at least a G3 233 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM. We also recommend turning virtual memory off, running a minimal set of extensions, turning off Apple Talk, have an optimized hard drive and set disk cache to 128 k.


The only problem with this device is that Apple's iMovie doesn't support it. But that is up to Apple to fix.