Yeah, can you believe it?

I’ve tried it for 3 hours and already felt in love with it, why? This is why:

- It searches my HDD for movies, all kind of movies: divx, mp4, avi…, adds to the library, downloads posters and then downloads the subtitles from opensubtitles.org! How easy can it be just to get a movie to your library?

- Awesome list of apps for movies, radio: Youtube, Hulu, MTV, Discovery Channel, Comedy Central, LastFM…

- Awesome user interface, although the navigation sucks, but over all, it’s a very slick interface.

- Remote App for iPhone, imagine this, connect your mac to your TV, then control your movies, music, youtube movies, shows, pictures with your iPhone from meters away! Awesome!!!

- Built in Torrent software for more movies.

So, thank you so much, the Boxee Team. Just one thing I hope you can make it in the next release: Aperture support! I manage my images in Aperture and publish some of them to Picasa, I guess I can use the Picasa App for it but hei, internet is not always as fast in my country!

Cheers

If you’re on a Mac, and missed your CHM files, I’ve been there. I’ve tried most (if not all) CHM reader for Mac. Chamonix, Chmosx, Chmox, iChm, xCHM, you name it. After some searching hours, I found ArCHMock. It feels like finding an oasis!

Here’s why:

• It’s fast, really! (load, search, everything)
• Great interface (leopard-ish, highlighting search result)
• Great search (relevance sort, search as you type)
• It’s free!

Many thanks to Vyacheslav Zakovyrya for creating ArCHMock, reading CHM on Mac OS X Leopard is fun again!

(Source: http://riyono.com/2008/07/reading-chm-on-mac-os-x-leopard/)

Occasionally I do presentations, and I do also really want to impress my audiences. So, I’ve collected a few tools that could do the job:

1. Keynote, yes, no doubt about it, Keynote has much more amazing animated effects compared to M$ PowerPoint.
2. OmniDazzle, sometimes, you need to dim the screen and have a spotlight to emphasize your focus, omnidazzle does it, and guess what, it’s free.



3. Jing, Jing isn’t exactly free but the free version is cool enough for you to take snapshots of things, and then add some highlights, comments into it and finally, put into your Keynote.
   

   Jing allows you to annotate your capture screenshots

4. Hotbox, it zooms whatever is on your screen, no need for a ^-Scroll. Can you see me now?
5. Apple Remote, yes, it’s quite convenient doing your presentation without touching your mouse.
6. Laser pointer: Very cool I am, my Jedi apprentices.

Not much of a list there, but with the right combination of these things, they’ll do a great job.

Se avete mezz’oretta, ecco a voi il più nerd dei nostri appunti online: nell’intervista di Giovanna Rosi a Telecittà trent’anni d’informatica e di design visti dalla California nella collezione di All About Apple, il museo che a Quiliano (appunto), in provincia di Savona, conserva la produzione della casa di Cupertino.

Nell’immagine un raro esemplare di Apple Lisa, il “parente” Cro-Magnon del Macintosh, dalla caratteristica fronte schiacciata.

You are going to witness the gathering of people with a lot of time to waste… welcome this is TA Live!

Lo scorso Lunedì sera, insieme della mia dolce geek girl, siamo stati testimoni, anche se solo per mezzora, dell’evento tenuto in diretta su uStream da Carlo Becchi, podcaster di Tecnica Arcana (TA), in collaborazione con l’All About Apple. Il 01.10.2007, che come ha detto Carlo nulla ha a che vedere con un nuovo progetto cinematografico di J.J.Abrams , ha segnato il debutto live di TA con un gustoso e ricco, sia di contenuti che di humor, speciale sull’iPhone.
Sono intervenuti molti ascoltatori e alcuni dei membri dell’All About Apple tra cui Mister X con la sua esperienza di “sbuzzamento” dell’iPhone. Da oggi è possibile scaricare la registrazione dell’episodio.