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High Def Delight

Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

July 14th, 2008

FLAC to Apple Lossless on OS X: XLD

I’m a big fan of FLAC, the super-high quality, Free Lossless Audio Codec. I have a bit of my music stored in FLAC. However, my iPod doesn’t support FLAC as it stands: the highest quality format is Apple Lossless, so I’ve been using that for a lot of my modern music.
Even some artists […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 3 comments

July 9th, 2008

It’s time to ditch MP3

Since the days of Napster, the Internet has been flowing with this magical, wonderful beast known as “MP3″. What is it, exactly?
Well, it’s a compression standard dating back to 1991 that shrinks the size of audio by throwing away parts we don’t hear very well. The higher the compression ratio, the more information […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 2 comments

March 8th, 2008

Ars: AppleTV vs. Xbox 360, Fight!

The Apple TV Version One seemed to be hated by most. It didn’t have a movie service, you had to use iTunes and absolutely needed a computer to get content to the device, and the fact that it was limited in so many ways was looked down upon. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 1 comment

March 2nd, 2008

Blu-Ray Coming To Apple? CrunchGear Says No

Earlier this week, I came up with my ideas of what the new MacBook Pro revisions were going to include, and one of the main ideas was a Blu-Ray drive. Well, I was a tad wrong, considering they didn’t even show up at all. Now that that hasn’t happened, more rumors are still coming out […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Super Tuesday, Apple Style

So in case you haven’t noticed, Apple has been having product updates every Tuesday. From the new MacBook Air to Aperture 2.0 to new iPod shuffles, of all things. Well, what does this week bring us? Nobody is exactly for sure, but all signs are pointing to some update in the MacBook/MacBook Pro family. Why […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 2 comments

February 10th, 2008

Apple TV Widgets Soon?

Love your Apple TV, yet want some internet functionality greater than downloading songs, movies, TV shows, and media integration with Flickr, .Mac, and YouTube? A new patent released may grant you just that. The new patent diagram shows content being played on a screen (a baseball game, curiously enough) with two sidebar widgets, one being […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

October 26th, 2007

Update to My Setup

Tomorrow will be the day that I will be brought into the HD world. Tomorrow I am planning on getting an Intel Mac Mini and (hopefully) the eyeTV Hybrid HD tuner. This means that I’ll finally be able to watch all the detailed goodness most of you are already watching. Yeah, I’ll only be able […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments