Elgato EyeTV HD: A review of the Mac DVRS for cable and satellite HDTV (TUAW.com)

Filed under: Accessories, video, Macby Steven Sande (RSS feeds) on December 18th at 7: 30PMShare 2010

Elgato has been on the Mac video market for some time, development and commercialization of popular products such as video compression device Turbo.264 HD USB and various varieties of EyeTV tuner and digital video recorder for Mac.

Eariler this year TUAW examined the EyeTV Hybrid, a dongle USB of US$ 149.95 which serves as a tuner and recorder for over-the-air digital television. Since that time, Elgato released HD EyeTV ($ 199.95 and available at least to points of sale online), which the company touts as "the ultimate TV cable and satellite HD DVRS.

The two devices work with Elgato EyeTV for Mac software includes a smart guides for a season of any program for your Mac or an external disk automatically, saving guide program, easy export video to iTunes for syncing iDevices and even streaming application to iOS EyeTV. The big difference? EyeTV HD works with cable or satellite HD boxes that many people use for pump that digital signal quality to their HDTV. Click the read more link below for a full review of this video material unique.

Setup

Looking at the back of the EyeTV HD packaging Setup seems very simple - you just need to run audio and video cables between the satellite or cable and HD EyeTV, execute your Mac's USB cable and then connect a cable infrared channel changer for HD EyeTV "take control" of your cable box. Elgato is smart enough to include all necessary cables in the box, you do not have to run to the local Radio Shack to buy to put in place the HD EyeTV. There is also a remote control and a CD on which you can find a copy of the EyeTV software (I he downloaded from Elgato site to obtain the latest version).

The Setup program is incredibly easy that even I could do! After cables to be connected according to the quick start guide, I launched the EyeTV application on my MacBook air. There I quickly guided by a connection to HD EyeTV, gathering the required channel guide (and I think that I had a bad...), and then selecting the appropriate box cable. The latter was carried out by clicking a button on the Mac screen to see if it is found the cable box or disable.

Operation

One thing to remember is that EyeTV HD is not a replacement for your gamepad cable decoder or satellite. You will use for video display on your Mac as well as for the video capture to your Mac or an external hard disk is attached. That being said, the EyeTV HD is a high-performance work.

Video reviewed big screen MacBook Air, so I can only imagine how awesome it would be an iMac display 27 "or something." Inflow can be set to fill your screen or scaled to provide a window watching TV on your Mac, and the sound quality is good. EyeTV captures and plays its Dolby Digital. Using optical digital audio output on the latest Mac, it may transmit its Dolby Digital 5.1 home cinema for incredible systems

As you can see in the video below, the user interface is as a channel that you would get in a standard cable box guide. The guide provides a list of hour performances on a specific channel, and you can also search for shows by name. Once the complete guide has been fulfilled on the Mac, scroll through the list was lightning fast. You get free access Guide Channel (provided by TV Guide) for one year; After that, the guide costs $ 19.95 per year.

Choose a particular show guide, you can choose to save the issuance, registration on a calendar, or save all episodes of a program. Registration is not all HD EyeTV can do, of course. Watch a show, you can perform all functions DVR typical suspension and rewind the live video. If you use a widescreen Mac as your television, you can even use the included remote control to perform all these actions and navigate through the user interface for HD EyeTV. The software can even be set to wake up or turn on your Mac at a specific time to record a show.

It is fairly easy editing of recorded broadcasts. Integrated editor can be used to remove commercials from records or to merge the episodes broadcast.

You want to watch your shows recorded on something other than a Mac? Your video can be automatically saved on iPad iTunes and iPhone format at the same time. There is a way you can video stream live or recorded to an iPhone or iPad application of EyeTV $4.99.

If there are several Mac in your household, then Mac can install the OS X EyeTV application and share records on a Wi - Fi or Ethernet network. That parental controls are enabled in EyeTV software, you can have a large library of performances with mature themes and make sure that your children can watch.

Negative

One thing I found odd about the software was that when I tried to move a channel, he could show me the correct channel name or description, but often I found myself watching the channel lower or higher than that I really wanted to. This is due to a defect in operation of the installation on my part - either in infrared blaster or may choose the incorrect channel - guide or is a software error, it is quite boring. I have no opportunity of trying to make the installation once more, but I am confident that this would solve the problem.

Conclusion

Elgato EyeTV HD is great for those who have cable or satellite HD TV services and who would like to watch and record shows on their Mac. The EyeTV software adds functionality whenever examines Elgato is new trends of visualization rendering the EyeTV HD device and software works well with other Mac, iPhone and iPads.

A short video follows this post — it has been registered for the episode 15 December 2010 TUAW TV live, and it shows the EyeTV HD in action. TUAW later give the Elgato EyeTV HD among many gifts for Macworld Expo 2011 in San Francisco from 27 to 29 January. If you go to this year's event, don't forget to visit us in booth 1012 a chance to win this and other valuable prizes.

Review: Panasonic Lumix FX75 (macnn.com)

Panasonic with Leica teamwork was probably one better partnerships between mainstream and high-end camera brands. some Leica lens treatments led to the enthusiast cameras such as the Lumix LX3. Straddling the line is the Lumix DMC-FX75. A point while more traditional, pocketable and stem its rapid f2.2 lens and a full touchscreen interface could get some people to leave their largest drilling rigs at home. Electronista discover how any examination in its FX75.

How VMware differs from Amazon Web Services in its approach to import virtual machines (feedburner)

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud, channel dedicated to covering the cloud and virtualization computing. The canal is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study on how the city of Santiago, the Spain turned to virtualization.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) import VMware image is somewhat like the Hotel California. You can check but you can never leave.

This is the point of view of VMware on AWS import virtual machines VMware. Without any real export functions, AWS is locking in customers who want to extend its infrastructure virtualized environment public cloud.

Matthew Lodge is Director, principal of VMware cloud services. We took with him this week to talk about VMware approach and how it differs from AWS.

Referred to in Tom Bittman, an analyst at Gartner Research, who says Lodge as safety and performance are two of the top concerns on the outskirts of the cloud infrastructures.

In short, is a distinct manner that VMware differs from AWS.

Hybrid is that VMware sees his next thrust. Making the move to import virtual machines VMware AWS is grateful a significant market opportunity. It also demonstrates VMware dominant position on the market.

But George Reese for a saw some problems with the AWS methods both VMware. Reese is the founder of EnStratus, a service that helps businesses to expand its data centers in the cloud clouds management. He says that AWS import method is too low. He told us via Twitter would be like a running application on its own separate mother. This motherboard will then be carried from one server to another.

The best solution is to be portable to the application layer and run your application on any virtual machine on your target operating system.

Lodge says VMware offers its customers security and control movement of the cloud.

In a blog in August, he wrote:

"Another area important that heard talk us time and was once again security." Consequently, security is a key element of vCloud Datacenter services. There are three parts to this: the security of cloud infrastructure itself, applications running in the cloud and authentication for users of clouds within your organization and access rights.

You told us that it was not enough that the infrastructure and applications are protected; security teams and Auditors should be able to verify and document too. To provide this service for Datacenter vCloud infrastructure a meet a strict set of physical and logical security controls with all newspapers available for inspection by the third-party auditors. We have developed a set of controls derived from the ISO 27001 and consistent with the SAS70 type II to this end, including the implementation of our service provider partners.

We also took advantage of the new vShield Edge and vCloud Director "monitor" complete virtual security, which provides a firewall stateful (again, newspapers are available for the audit), layer 2 VLANs and complete isolation of network layer 2. As a result, security and the implementation strategy automatically follow the application, regardless of the where he physically lands. (It will be more to this topic in another ticket blog.)You also receive complete role-based access control, authenticated against your own directory business so that you have the type access and authorization security that you're used to. »

AWS Lodge contends, a virtual firewall that does not provide a high level of security. You see it if there is an attack.

"They do not logs you off the firewall", said the Lodge. "If they are attacked they cannot see the logs to see if they actually get attacked." "They cannot see what is happening."

AWS maintains its network is secure and there is much to show for that to be true. But the situation changes when you start moving of virtual machines.

We'll get more into that in a future post on virtual networks and emerging awareness that require networks. Lodge and a host of others have a lot of insights into the topic that is worth exploring.

The bottom line: VMware offers a much more sophisticated than AWS service but flexibility and price AWS service make for a compelling alternative to VMware approach.

There are many other players in this space too. EnStratus is a cloud of world-class management service. Rackspace brings his own brand, with the acquisition of Cloudkick.

The new year? Our bet is that the cloud will become much more transparent. The difference is that by the end of 2011, everything is much more familiar to businesses and perhaps much easier to implement, too.

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Updates to 10.0 dharma, rocks XBMC powerful additional and enhanced support [video] graphics acceleration (Lifehacker.com)

Windows/Mac/Linux: XBMC, impressive open source and highly customizable media updates to XBMC 10.0 Dharma today with some serious changes under the hood - including an absolutely extraordinary complementary framework upgrade Center.

Last year at this time, XBMC team dropped the release of 9.11 Camelot. Camelot blew all further with a dramatically improved user interface and as your Media Center skins look us like a million bucks - literally, none of the visitors at my house never think that I have received free of charge.

In 2010, we saw various incarnations of the generation of Dharma as he squeezed beta and release candidate phase. From today, XBMC 10.0 Dharma is available for public release and it is quite an impressive upgrade. At first glance you might have trouble he say apart from 9.11 Camelot. Extraordinary style introduced in the latest version is always there and who better than ever with a few minor adjustments. The real magic in this release cycle is under the hood.

Let us be honest. I love XBMC, there is a good chance that you too love XBMC - he won five hive for best media center application and XBMC articles always collect much attention here. We have to claim that, historically, adding XBMC and customization experience XBMC was a walk in the Park. You have to comb forums XBMC.org read post after post and hope that make us the combing for you and write a nice guide. Modules were almost entirely hit or random and what worked in a cycle of generation may not work the next - or even between machines. This release cycle removes adhesive tape holding the additional support and replaces it with a complementary system based on the elegant and streamlined repository.

Sounds too good to be true? Check out the video below. I was able to install modules easily, to the right of the box, with a new installation. Instead of marinating in a lot of hand editing configuration files, look at how I easily download a new skin, add in some media scrapers and even add a video plugin to within a few minutes (any configuration or modification of the hand is necessary at any time).

If you're new to XBMC you think OH, well "that seemed easy enough!" but if you're a veteran of the XBMC, you are probably still in shock. I did not FTP in my installation XBMC, hand edit the configuration files or sacrifice all livestock to achieve. Adding media scrapers, music and modules subtitle, new skins, tools, videos and additional web interfaces to your Media Center remote control has never been this easy.

In addition to support additional awesome (and we do not insist enough what a great not forward this new framework complementary and repository is XBMC project) you will find even more improvements in the generation of the dharma, including:

Support for new media, including acceleration WebM VP8.Improved equipment for a large number of hardware configurations, including support for Windows Vista/7 and CrystalHD acceleration on all platforms - Linux and OS X users DXVA2 codecs will see major improvements with CrystalHD.Support for unencrypted Blu - ray playback.Integrated day including support for update or automatic update notifications.

For a detailed overview of all improvements to 10.0 Dharma XBMC see complete milestone here.

Excited about the new version and want to make your collection of media like whipping and customizing your XBMC experience? Information on how to get so many things with our practice guides:

Visit the link below to read more or go to download right to seize a copy of your operating system of choice.

Send an e-mail to Jason Fitzpatrick, the author of this post in jason@lifehacker.com.

Craigslist closes Down International "adult services" articles (connected - Epicenter)

Craigslist service popular online ad apparently closed its controversial "adult services" section in the world.

At the beginning of September, protected Craigslist United States after years of course article request on the issue by State Attorneys General and human trafficking groups, which finally led to a hearing before the Congress. Section included legal quasi-sexual and slightly veiled advertisements advertisements for the purposes of prostitution.

Now, Craigslist has removed quietly section in all its international sites, including those in the Canada, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa.

When Craigslist closed section to the United States, he lost replaced the section with the "uncensored" Word, but the international arrest came with this any protest and no advertising.

Craigslist, explains section was created to requests from users to clean up sections of the site free online dating.

Subsequently at the request of many States of U.S. prosecutors, Craigslist has begun requiring a $ 10 fee paid by credit card to place an advertisement in this section work phone number. He also hired a lawyer vet each announcement of illegality and suggestions of underage girls. Craigslist was then attacked being greedy and to take advantage off the coast of prostitution, a strange burden for a company that is constantly criticized by analysts to load does not more (fresh company only for employment and housing lists select markets) services.

Craigslist argued that shut down the service would simply force ads on other services with less care and increased spam in other sections.

Craigslist has become a preferred state advocates General Henry McMaster in South Carolina and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, target has ambitions for the highest Office. (In the case of the Blumenthal, it is now the incoming junior senator of the United States.)

However, Craigslist legally worked in the law, which implements the legal liability on the person of posting on the internet, not internet service they use.

A spokesman for Craigslist has refused to comment on the unexpected disappearance of section of the international versions of the site.

Backpage.com, a classified ads by Village Voice media sites continues to run an adult services section and has seen an increase in traffic since Craigslist has shut down its u.s. service in September.

Top photo: the Craigslist in San Francisco, CA Office. Credit: Blmurch

NASA engineers offer combining a rail gun and a light spacecraft into orbit [Nasa] (Gizmodo.com) supersonic combustion scramjet

NASA has worked on the creation of a new and less expensive to launch spacecraft method. Their latest proposal involves rail, rail gun and a supersonic combustion scramjet. Here is what they are trying to do:

In April, President Obama urged the NASA to come up with, among other things, a cheaper than conventional rocket on the launch of the spacecraft method. In September, the Agency engineers float plan would save millions of dollars in propellant, improve the safety of the astronaut and allow more frequent flights. What need is two miles from train, a plane can fly at 10 times the speed of sound and a Jolt large enough power for a small town in light.

The system calls for a two-mile rail length gun launch a scramjet supersonic combustion will be then fly to 200,000 feet. The supersonic combustion scramjet will then be a payload into orbit of fire and return to Earth. The process is more complex as a rocket launch, but the engineers say that it is also more flexible. With it, NASA could orbit satellite of 10,000 pounds a day and send a ship lived towards the Moon follows on a fraction of the propellant used by rockets today.

This may seem too awesome ever be a reality. But unlike other plans of rocket-less entry space, each technology is sufficiently advanced that tests may be held within 10 years, said Stan Starr, a physicist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Scramjet NASA hit Mach 10-12 seconds; last spring, supersonic scramjet Boeing X-51 a Mach 5 to record 200 seconds. Rail guns come on too. Navy tests electromagnetic launch system to replace hydraulics catapult fighter aircraft carrier. "We have all the ingredients," explains Paul Bartolotta, NASA Aeronautics engineer working on the project. "We are just now how to bake the cake."

Rev Up The Rail Gun
A linear 240,000 horsepower engine converts 180 megawatts an electromagnetic force that propels a supersonic scramjet carrying spacecraft on a two mile long track. The boat speeds of 0 to 1 100 mph (Mach 1.5) in less than 60 seconds - faster, but less than 3 G, safe for manned space flight.

Fire the supersonic combustion scramjet
The driver raises a Turbo speed and launches the runway. Once the vessel striking Mach 4, the air flowing through the contribution of jet is fast enough that it compresses heats 3 000?F and ignites hydrogen in the Chamber of combustion, producing tens of thousands of pounds of thrust.

Get into orbit
At an altitude of 200 feet, there is not enough air for the supersonic combustion scramjet now traveling at Mach 10, to generate thrust. Spaceflight now begins. Separate two boats and the heights of supersonic scramjet down out of the way top gear fires rockets tail which it draw on orbit.

Paste the landing.
The supersonic combustion scramjet slows and uses its engines to fly to the land of a runway. Once the spacecraft delivers its payload into orbit, he returned to the atmosphere and flat to the launch site. The two boats may be ready for another mission within 24 hours after landing.

Popular science is your worm in the future. What do we reports on what's new and what is the next science and technology, delivering the future now.

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Protesters March in support of WikiLeaks in Montreal (feeds.feedburner)

Chanting "information should be free" and "down with censorship," protesters marched from Montreal downtown Saturday to denunciation WikiLeaks online support.

One hundred people go to the U.S. Consulate to protest against the closure of the site Web of cloth and tries to its financing.

Organizing Nadim Kobeissi, studying computer science at Concordia University, said authorities are trying to stifle the free flow of information online.

"If the Internet is allowed to stay as it is, it will cause great political change [...]". "where everyone has access to the information just as well," said Mr.Kobeissi.

"This will entail political responsibility and knowledge sharing are unprecedented.

Mr. Kobeissi, a defender of freedom Internet self-proclaimed, has created a WikiLeaks mirror site that duplicates the material is no longer available on the original Web site.

Nearly 2,000 of these sites have been created since WikiLeaks has been closed.

Bruno Joyal, a student of mathematics at Concordia University, said that he feared that a dangerous precedent will be defined if WikiLeaks is successfully.

"We are going to approach a situation where the United States wants to ensure that leaked secret documents cannot be published," Mr. Joyal said.

"We believe it is very important that the press be able to publish these documents.

Protesters also called for the release of Bradley Manning, American soldier accused of stealing classified and sensitive documents and giving them to WikiLeaks.

Similar rallies were supposed to be held Saturday at the United States Ireland, the Netherlands.

In recent weeks, WikiLeaks published parts of a cache over 250,000 secret u.s. Department of State diplomatic cables everywhere in the world.

Documents, published in collaboration with several major media organizations reveal behind-the-scenes discussions between diplomats and assessments often little flattering of foreign leaders, ranging from the u.s. allies such as the Germany and other nations such as the Libya, the Iran the Afghanistan Italy.

Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday.

It will be limited to Manor House of a supporter, but free to return to work on its website, as when he fought trying the Sweden extradite on the allegations of rape and indecent assault.

Speaking Saturday outside of the House in the East of England, Mr. Assange called the case of a "parody" Sweden He also said that he and others at WikiLeaks face significant risks.

"There is a threat to my life, there is a threat to my staff," he said, without providing further details.

"There are significant risks facing us."

American Eric Holder said repeatedly that a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks cable release is underway.

-With the files from the Associated Press