3 pieces of software that I’ve never really seen mentioned anywhere that I simply can not live without:
XnView
Free image browser/organizer with every feature of ACDSee and Adobe Bridge and many more. Just look at the operating systems it runs on: Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, […]
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iTunes Media Wrangling with Smart Playlists
Published November 29th, 2006 in media storage and software. 1 CommentUPDATE: It appears, at least in iTunes 7.0.2 that isntead of creating some big, cumbersome playlist with lots of “is not” entries as mentioned in the first link below, you can simple do “Playlist, is, Music” or “Playlist, is, TV Shows” - yay!
iTunes has some awesome features, but some odd deficiencies.
One such is the inability […]
This looks fairly impressive. At times it appears as though they’re using Flash or Flex, but at others it’s hard to tell. In any case, it should be fun to see. I’m particularly impressed with the couple of different printing options mentioned, and the smooth integration of timezones. I’m not so enamored with the Offline […]
The bane of having an awesome media server, regardless of whether it houses audio, video, photos or all-of-the-above is that you have to rely on physical devices somewhere to store the data…
Having recently had yet another hard drive decide to begin spewing bad sectors, I went on the hunt for recovery information for the overly […]
media server software rant update (mini review)
Published February 6th, 2006 in software and mini review. 0 CommentsIt appears that the sorry state of UIs in media server software doesn’t extend to the Mac platform. I’ve been surfing around reading a few obscure articles this week and although the software isn’t very mature, I’ve been quite impressed with several Mac projects. Namely: MediaCentral, CenterStage, iTheatre, and CoverFlow. The best part is that […]
I’d been having some annoyances with RDP (Remote Desktop) over SSH. The primary source of annoyance stemmed from the Win2k/XP client not allowing you to connect to your local IP regardless of port, forwarded or otherwise. Luckily, it isn’t actually clever enough to know that the 127.0.0.2 address is also tied to the loopback […]
rant regarding media servers
Published January 3rd, 2006 in media storage, ui, linux and software. 0 CommentsI was originally commenting on an article on Engadget but felt like expanding it a bit here.
Ok, what everyone has to remember is that the User Interface of whatever is presenting you with your >1,000 DVD library has to not just be good, but has to be GREAT. The only GREAT interface I’ve found is […]
As it caused me some effort to actually locate, I wish to share with you this awesome Firefox Extension entitled SessionSaver. The below description does not do the usefulness justice. The version at the link below works with Firefox version 1.0.x and 1.5. Recently the Mozilla team have implemented automatic session restoring upon a Firefox […]
