Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

Well we along with everyone else tipped this but the new brushed aluminium iMac is here. What is cool is just how thin it is, up to 4.0 GIG RAM, Up to 1 TB HD, up to 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, ATI Radeon HD graphics card, and a brand new keyboard. This photo from [...]

This piece from PhotoGeek on the new Drobo USB four drive storage unit. This could be a very handy bit of gear and we have contacted Drobo to see if we can get hold of a few of these for re-sale. The Drobo is unique in that it can have drives of unequal size inserted [...]

Engadget has posted a short piece on this photo of Al Gore’s triple 30 inch Apple cinema display. Do we all want a set up like this? Not so messy perhaps? Last line was a good one. ( thanks for the link-Ajay ) “P.S. -Yeah, fine, we’re creepy gadget stalkers, what of it?”

Just released the Elgato H.264 hardware encoder. Make Apple TV ready content from Elgato recorded HD Free to Air TV in a flash. No more waiting for video to re-encode as 720p for iTunes playback. This makes the AppleTV a much more useful device for managing Free To Air TV on your widescreen TV. Read [...]

This is a little job for Ringo, an artist from The StKilda Esplanade market. Ringo wanted to know if we could reproduce from an original oil painting, a color accurate reproduction to canvas using the wide format Epson printer. The 4800 pro uses 100 year archive pigment ink and also is amazing at this sort [...]

This pic from Apples’ booth at NAB is a little over the top for most of us. According to Think Secret: Apple Inc.’s presence at the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week includes a mind-boggling on-site server demonstration comprised of 130 Xserve components and over 3 miles of fiber optic cable. Very impressive but [...]

So it looks like there are 4 processor options now. Dual quad core “Clovertown” Xeon, Quad 2.0 GHz, Quad 2.66 GHz, Quad 3.0 GHz all “Woodcrest” Xeon. Standard feature is the 2.66 GHz Quad, the 8 core adds a whopping $2400 to the price and the 3.0 GHz Quad adds $1300. Start adding multiple 750 [...]

Finally the worst kept secret is out. When there is a box to check online for this puppy it will have my name on it. They are currently online in Australia but not in the online store. Opt for the 8-core Mac Pro and you get the power of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors [...]

This article from Daniel Eran on the capability of Apple TV in relation to 5.1 audio is lengthy and concise. Thanks to Merlin Mann who has a vested interest in the technology working properly now and who is in opposition to the Scott Bourne’s of the podcast world. I think Merlin or Ze Frank could [...]

Gretag Macbeth have been leaders in the field of monitor calibrators for some time, so it was interesting to see their latest affordable calibration tool in action. The Gretag Macbeth huey is an entry level device for those who need to be color accurate for photography, video, web design or graphic design. At $240 it [...]

There has been a bit of a buzz going on in the past few days about Migila having lost the Elgato EyeTV software license. It seems something is up as bloggers speculate that Apple may be acquiring Miglia to add hardware that records Free to Air, Cable, and Satellite TV. I am not too sure [...]

Well it seems that the times are a changin’…again. Elgato, having released the superb DTT USB stick for Digital HD TV on the Mac, now intend to have the export files compatable with Apple TV 720p streaming capability. I have been testing the Elgato on a 17 inch iMac Core 2 Duo and despite it’s [...]

Acording to Appleinsider an Apple sub-notebook may be coming soon. A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. This is interesting news as is fills the gap [...]

After a year or so of “not so good” webcam reliability, Alan Jones (Fredericksberg Virginia, USA), asked me to assist. We had a quick gloss over the issues on iChat video conference and then got down to business. The problem as usual was the local network and the html for the webcam page. We needed [...]

I am getting a bit bored with the DRM thing that the Europeans are going on about. I figure they are steamed up about a perceived lack of competition in the sale of Mp3 players. Perhaps the only reason iPod’s are selling so well because of some lack of competition. These “suits” are sick of [...]