A little sooner than I thought the Sound studio application got unlocked. The reason that the app was unlocked quicker than I thought was that Macupdate has brought down the unlock levels. Things are really speeding up now!!! The next app to be unlocked is BannerZest a really cool application to create all kinds of banners. If you haven’t bought the bundle yet… DO IT NOW  You maybe even get some extra apps as the first 3500 buyers did. It gets better and better.

Check it out at www.mupromo.com for yourself!

YEAH The first free extra is here

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WhatSize added for first 3,500 early adopters of the bundle!
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Early adopters of the MacUpdate Parallels Bundle are being rewarded.
The first 3,500 faithful get a free copy of WhatSize. When MacUpdate
ran WhatSize in the regular 24-hour promo, it ranked in the top 2% in
sales popularity and positive user comments. We think it’s a killer
app.

Essentially, WhatSize is a powerful tool that makes it really easy to
see what files on your Mac are taking up all of your disk space! Then
you can remove/move them if you choose. I know my hard drive fills up
very fast, and I’m often puzzled what is taking up all its free space.
WhatSize is the perfect companion for downloaders on MacUpdate, or
people who love using iTunes or other utilities to “get more stuff.”

WhatSize – Measure file/folder sizes quickly.

For the list of all other apps that are already available please see my other post or go directly to www.mupromo.com The deal is getting better and better. I really love LEAP it’s a must have ones you’ve used it. Offcourse you can always try the packages before you buy the total pack.  

Just a few days after the release of version 1.33 version 1.34 pops up. Again no changlog (couldn’t find it). Go get it at nullriver software.  Keep streaming all your movies / pictures / etc. to your playstation 3

Well, as a new mac owner I have bought this bundle yesterday. I must say it has some really handy apps. Below you can see the list of apps provided. There is a small downside to this list…… Some apps are locked… 

The only way to get this unlocked is for you guys to unlock it for me  Depending on the sales of this package more and more packages get unlocked. So get over to Macupdate and buy it. It’s a good deal! 

As you can see it looks great, let me know what you think.

Today this pop-up showed up on my screen:

What the update does is not clear to me, but there must be improvements or bug-fixes.

I hope that it includes some re-encoding option although I haven’t found these option in the systempreferences settings.

However just download the update it’s a nice and small download:

Don’t forget to start your server, I noticed that after the installed it’s not started automaticly again….

BTW I use medialink to stream video to my PS3 but offcourse it works with all kinds of different Upnp compatible devices……. 

Have fun!

When trying to play some movies on my Mac I noticed that several codecs are not part of OS X or quicktime at least. One way to fix this is to install VLC player. 

As a former user of the Microsoft platform this was my first move. I must say it works similar as on a windows based machine (that means perfect). However I forgot / did not change the filetype association for some movie files. So it happened several times that quicktime was started instead of VLC (quicktime did not play the movie because it misses the codecs). I ran into Perian “The Swiss armyknife for Quicktime” I installed it and a lot of codecs were added to the system. Now it seems that quicktime is able to play most(maybe all) of my movies!!!! Really need to have software for all movie watching Mac owners! Here is the link to the Perians Homepage.

All the stuff moved HERE

Well as im working my way thru the world of Apple I tried some chat applications. The first one to try was offcourse ichat(comes with the OS). The fun was only short to be honest. I don’t know anyone with a mac and as far as I know you’ll need one to be able to use this program. So I installed amsn , with this I was able to chat but i still had no video , however the voice chat was really good. Then I tried Skype , this was a direct hit. Very easy to use and instandly setup (already had an account) The video images from my buildin webcam also worked perfectly fluent! So for now I will use Skype. As I’m still interested in Ichat maybe you wanna connect with me so I can give it a try. Maybe theres an easy way to connect to some chatroom with it so I can try it’s funcitonality?

It’s been some time ago since i’ve written anything on this blog. Main reason was that my old pc broke down. I had some spare time to kill investigating what pc I was going to buy. I’ve finally come to a decision and bought an Apple Imac with a 24″ screen. So far so good. The machine performs really well and has a great screen and looks…. I still have to get used to the os (Operating System) but it seems that i’m going to love it I bought the machine last week so I had some time to play around with it. I will try and keep you updated on my transfer from Windows to OS X. For now the only issue is that I cannot (yet) connect to my work in a proper way , but hey I haven’t really made any effort for that during easter What I like most at the moment is that it’s so easy to connect hardware to. I hooked up a Lacie firewire drive and my ipod and it just works. Also the wireless router i’ve bought (also Apple) was really easy to configure (just a few mouseclicks).. What an experience. I tried making a widget also and to my own surprise I succeeded It was a really simple coundown widget (thanks HowTube for the great tutorial podcast) but I might build a more usefull one in the near future.Things to do for now :

1 Get a connection to my work (need an mac ICA client) probably just download and install….

2 Get windows installed on my mac (still need it for MS office, might buy office 2008 for the mac)

3 Install World of Warcraft (should just run since it says so on the box)

4 Get to know some people with a mac so i can test ichat ( Mac is not used by any of my friends)…If you have any nice applications I should really try please let me know !!!