Video Lan Client, the popular open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), has recently been updated to version 0.8.6c. The new version, a 23.3 megabyte download, adds the following bug fixes and changes: -Windows Vista compatibility. -Cropping in Direct3D. -Full screen change crash on Mac OS […]
I’ll grant that this is somewhat out of left field, but someone wrote me a few weeks ago wondering if I could fix their Apple eMate. There are still Newton units out there and for those of you who still have one, Newton Research‘s Newton Connection 1.1 has just been updated to version 1.1. The […]
The guys over at Macworld News have posted the benchmarks for Apple’s newest generation of the MacBook Pro laptop. The new units, which are based on Intel’s Santa Rosa hardware architecture, fared well in tests and performed as expected for the most part, but lagged in graphics cards tests, despite the new Nvidia GeForce 8600M […]
PPUG (Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group) will hold our annual summer meeting TODAY, Saturday, 16 June 2007. The meeting will take place from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the Manayunk Brewing Company in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. Manayunk Brewing Company 4120 Main Street Philadelphia, PA 19127 215.482.8220 We usually have lunch (and/or a brew) […]