Boxee update adds Netflix, interface tweaks
Boxee has released an updated alpha version of its media player software adding support for the Watch Instantly video streaming feature from Netflix as well as MTV music videos, the WB network and photos from the Boston Globe. The move comes two weeks after the startup secured its first round of venture capital funding, hoping to license the XBMC-based software for use in set-top boxes and other...
published today, 1 hour 7 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Netflix streaming for Mac leaves beta
All Mac owners with a subscription to Netflix should now be able to stream select movies online, the company has announced. Though best known for mail-based DVD rental, Netflix also offers a bonus "Watch Instantly" service, which primarily lets Windows PCs (as well as various set-tops) stream some 12,000 movies and TV shows. To stream movies on a Mac, users must have Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, 1G...
published today, 2 hours 27 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Nokia outs networked radio, 3G modem, more
Simultaneous with the launch of the N97, Nokia today launched a trio of companion devices. The Home Music is Nokia's first Internet radio and provides both Ethernet and Wi-Fi to either stream online content (in unspecified formats) or else music from local computers that support UPnP sharing. It also supports USB and an aux-in jack to directly connect portable media players and other devices and...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple pushing Mini DisplayPort through no-fee licenses
Apple is offering no-fee Mini DisplayPort licenses to anyone interested in designing products around the new specification, a move the company hopes will take the fledgling display connector mainstream.
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, appleinsider
Joost brings mainstream videos, clips to iPhone
Joost has brought its 46,000-plus catalog of films, TV shows, and other clips to the iPhone. The free player allows streaming access to the company's entire library, but this initial effort falls a little short.Read More...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, ars-technica
Use a custom video converter for iMovie HD projects
If you ever wish iMovie HD had more export options, like your favorite converter app (mine is MPEG Streamclip), there's a very simple way to use your third party converter app on an iMovie project. Control-click on the project file in the Finder and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Shared Movies » GarageBand, where you'll find a tiny .mov file. Use this file as the input for whatever converter you want to use. You can also simply double-click this file if you wish to watch your video without opening up iMovie HD. [robg adds: Note that this hint applies to the older version of iMovie, not the new iMovie '08.]
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macosxhints
iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio
Statesman writes "Only a little over a year ago, the FCC approved the merger of XM and Sirius satellite radio companies and the combined stock was trading at $4 a share. Despite being a monopoly — or perhaps because of it — the company is failing. They are losing subscribers, the stock is now trading around 22 cents a share (a 97% decline), and they have written off $4.8 billion dollars in stock value. So, what happened? The CEO is blaming pretty much everyone except himself and his business model. But is pay-for-bandwidth even a viable business plan anymore? With millions of iPhone and gPhone users out there, free streaming audio applications like FStream, and thousands of Internet radio stations to access, the question is: why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company?" Read on for the rest of Statesman's thoughts.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Sunday, the 30. November 2008, apple-slashdot
SecuritySpy 1.6 update adds multi-core, H.264 support
Ben Software has launched SecuritySpy 1.6, upgrading its multi-camera video surveillance software for the Mac. The security software supports motion detection, real-time compression and network video streaming and can be purchased for single-camera use or multiple-camera uses. Version 1.6 adds multi-threaded compression routines for multiple-core processors, H.264 video compression support and ser...
published on Thursday, the 27. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Qik.com site comes to iPhone, native app still "in progress"
Ars spoke with Qik's co-founder about the progress of its native iPhone app for streaming live, interactive video. In the meantime, however, the company has introduced the other half of the equation: an iPhone-optimized site for viewing Qik videos.Read More...
published on Tuesday, the 25. November 2008, ars-technica
Tests: Intel's upcoming Nehalem Xeons 2X faster
Early tests conducted with Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Xeons by TechRadar today show the processor running approximately twice as fast as its current equivalent. Based on the same basic design as Core i7 mainstream chips, a pair of 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon X5560 chips received a SPEC score of 160 in floating-point math tests versus 90 for two 3.4GHz Xeons from the current generation....
published on Friday, the 21. November 2008, macintosh-news-network