I have prepared a short (like 10 minute) video showing you how to easily convert a DVD movie to a Mac friendly video (or even XBOX 360/PSP/ipod) format.
You simply need to grab a copy of the latest prerelease build of Handbrake here.
Be aware that Handbrake dev team are planning to release an official version before the end of [...]

I was looking through Joost web site tonight and noticed a link for a Plug-In Developer.
I taught, this look like something that might be linked to the possible future video web site. So I went ahead and followed the link. I noticed something interesting in the “Desired” section:
- Experience of OSX or Linux installation and configuration would be an advantage.
- Experience with scripting applications including FLASH.
Continue reading Joost looking for Plug-In developer with OSX/Linux experience
Guess what just showed up in my mailbox? An email from Babelgum inviting me to have a second look at it! And what new platform just got added? Right, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5! And apparently there is support for both PPC and intel processors!
This is great news and will certainly [...]
Joost has a couple of big Mac fans. If you don’t know many Mac fans you might think they’re all alike in their ardor for Apple and worship for Jobs … but that would be a wildly inaccurate assumption. By my calculations, there are at least three categories of Mac fans.
Category 1: The casual [...]
NBC.com has announced a service called “NBC Direct” which will allow users to download NBC shows such as “The Office,” “30 Rock,” and “Heroes,” to their desktop. The NBC Direct software will allow users to view each episode for up to one week, at which point the license will expire. While free to view the shows, [...]
I am amazed! I just got my invitation to LiveStation and was shocked to find out it was not supported under Mac. Tough I said. Let see ho it will runder under Parallels desktop for Mac.
To my surprise it run just fine! Actually I was even able to capture this YouTube video [...]
The new 0.10.8 client is now available on the Joost web download site. This version fixes some unknown issues. You can download the beta clients directly by following the following links:
windows: https://downloads.joost.com/downloads/JoostSetup-FriendsEdition-0.10.8.exe
mac: https://downloads.joost.com/downloads/Joost-FriendsEdition-0.10.8.dmg
Another little thing worth noting is that the Joost website no longer sport the moving colors in the header. It was apparently [...]
Cloud computing is the hot new thing in the world of technology right now; Apple is a complete laggard; and it knows it needs to fix it.
Apple makes beautiful hardware, but it hasn’t improved on .Mac, its cloud based storage offering, in years. Meanwhile, Google runs cloud based hardware and software better and cheaper than anyone [...]
Just got tipped that DivX.com is giving away for a limited time period free copy of DivX Pro player/codec/converter. Today Only. All you need is a valid e-mail address to e-mail the serial number to, and you’re set.
DivX Pro gives you:
DivX Converter
The DivX Converter is the official DivX video creation software application. It lets you:
Create DivX [...]