pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ScreenHunter_02_Nov._22_18.51.jpg" width="494" height="306" style="display:block;" /Most of the new desktops featuring Intel's impressive Core i7 processor are straight-up gaming powerhouses, with pricetags to match. That's why I'm so pleased to see a glowing review of Dell's Studio XPS, which starts at a very affordable $950. DesktopReview took it for a spin and found that, despite one or two small problems, the Studio XPS is lightning fast and a great deal./p pThe quad-core proc was able to handle audio and video compression a few times faster than rival chips from AMD, and was the top of the heap in almost every benchmark they threw at it. Given it's not a gaming computer, the Studio XPS did extremely well on the gaming benchmark, and yes, it can run Crysis without exploding. The downsides? The design isn't heartstopping, as it looks like pretty much every other Dell machine out there, and DesktopReview thinks the hard drive configuration could be faster. But all in all, it's a stellar buy if you want a fast-as-it-gets machine that can even do a little gaming on the side. [a href="http://www.desktopreview.com/default.asp?newsID=537"DesktopReview/a via a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/dells-core-i7-packin-studio-xps-hits-the-review-bench/"Engadget/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a8ce517a53da7d6854bfd44fd1ad7266p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a8ce517a53da7d6854bfd44fd1ad7266p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a8ce517a53da7d6854bfd44fd1ad7266" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=pwxwAB5Y"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=V2wvnPfQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=RzlMq4pP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=RzlMq4pP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=YmF8YjVn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=YmF8YjVn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/5Fm04eGqN7E" height="1" width="1"/

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Hey guys, this is MacRumors afterall, and I personally think speculating is fun. Whether it's speculating about whose going to win the Superbowl, what trades your favorite baseball team will look like in the offseason, who would make a good couple, or what Apple's lineup will look like! :D

Right now I have the flu, so I have nothing better to do, here is what I think the iPod lineup should look like by fall 2009:

APPLE COMPLETE 2009 iPod Lineup:

I personally think they are going to get rid of the 8GB, and have three iPod Touch models:

iPod Touch: 16 GB - $149, 32 GB w/ camera - $249$, 64 GB w/ camera - $349

Basically the same iPod touch, with a camera built in, louder speakers, better battery life, more memory, cheaper, better 3D capabilities, and a more refined OS. The 16 GB iPod Touch will NOT have the camera.

Apple will then drop the iPod Nano, update the Classic but also make it so it can conveniently be used as an external hard drive for any Mac or PC. This would be perfect for the everyday college student who needs extra space but doesn't want to carry a hefty external hard drive and iPod with him, or the everyday business man working in a call center. Apple would of course have to make the iPod Classic software to make it be used as both an external hard drive and iPod conveniently. These are what the iPod Classic lineup should look like:

iPod Classic: 160 GB - $199, 320 GB - $299

Apple will also update the iPod Shuffle completely, and make it so that it has an easier interface, instead of constantly tapping the forward button to skip through a song, the person with the iPod Shuffle has the shuffle in his pocket, but also a little remote control piece that goes in his hand. The iPod shufle itself doesn't have any buttons, but the wireless controller does. The wireless controller if designed right can fit perfectly in one's hand and you control the iPod from there. This would be 10x more convenient for people running while using a shuffle or working out, what the shuffle is mainly manufactured for. Addition to this, when you aren't working out or whatever, you also can connect the wireless controller and iPod Shuffle itself together and use it like it has been previously. The iPod Shuffle would also come with bluetooth headphone capability.

iPod Shuffle: 4 GB - $59, 8 GB - $99

iPhone Lineup:

Apple will increase the battery life of the iPhone, a better camera, and the memory of the iPhone. It will also receive 4G if it is out then, and get a more refined OS along with the touch. Apple will also make it have even better 3D capabilities, and sign more companies to make games for the new Touch and iPhone for iTunes. Apple will also make it so that Flash is optional on the iPod Touch and iPhone. If you want better battery life, Flash would be turned off. This would also make it so game designers have more options. Apple's game designers will start to develop games that takes advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch's better graphics capabilities, therefore some games will not be able to be played on 2G and 1G Touches and iPhones.

iPhone: 32 GB - $199, 64 GB - $299

Has anyone else tried setting up an encrypted drive?

Wow, what POS software comes with this thing!! It claims to be Leopard and Time Machine compatible.

After installing "Freecom Hard Drive Pro" software, for which there is no updated version for OS X since last year's version on the freecom.com support website:

- it enables the "backup" button on the HD, which, rather than triggering Time Machine, seems to back up independently from TimeMachine. I stopped it as it was apparently copying stuff over to a different location than Time Machine

- the only reason I bothered to install the software was to use encryption. After installing the software, the manual instructs the user to press the "Encryption" button. This brings up: "you don't have an encrypted partition set up yet" (good). Then click "Configure" / "Modify Encryption":

"UNKNOWN EXCEPTION GETENCRYPTION" :eek:

From there it goes downhill!!

Freecom didn't notice this minor detail????????

Perhaps I am being too harsh and someone can come to my rescue with a good pointer? Please!!

I have kalyway 5.4 on my Dell inspiron 1300 laptop and sometimes it boots up to leopard, and sometimes it doesn't(it just gets stuck at the blue screen)Can anyone explain this? leopard is the only OS on my hard drive.
Thanks
~Endrien

Evening :)

I'm thinking about upgrading my hard drive in the macbook pro, like the ram it's 'special'

Does the hard drive have to be a particular type? or is their a nice little list i can choose from?

Cheers,

Is it worth going for a SSD or just a bigger and better than the current one i've got?

(Just for the record, i've got the one that did not recently come out, the one just before it) haha

I have a 500gb Lacie external hard drive hooked up to my imac by firewire. I never formatted it I just plugged it in and have been using it ever since. I was using my external to install WoW but I was doing it from a PC. The PC wouldn't recognize the drive unless I formatted it. So I partitioned 15gigs of the drive to NTFS so I could install WoW from the PC to my Lacie drive and then later on bring my external back home to play off of that on my imac. Now that I'm home on my imac I can only see the 15gigs partitioned part of the drive.

Does this mean that the other part of the drive is now totally gone? I realize the partitioning was worthless because WoW wrote the PC version onto the external (duh didn't think of that). So now I have no use for the partition so how can I get it back to what it was? Do I have to erase the whole drive and reformat OSX Journaled or is it still there and I just can't see it? Thanks for any help.

Ive been trying to install JaS onto my system but every time the dvd boots, i get into booting darwin and it get to a certain point and stops loading. Then every few moments, text will pop up and say

"Still waiting for Root Device"

Im assuming its waiting for my hard drive, but i have one partitioned and ready to be installed upon. Anyone out there have any ideas?

I want to share my experience and confirm, what I'll call a "known issue" that Apple will not confirm or acknowledge.
I was, what I was told 1 in 10 new MBP that have hardware problems with 3rd party upgrade issues.

The symtoms of my issues were. Long boot up times, between 5-10 min.
After boot, everything ran slow and sluggish. one click took 30 seconds to do anything. Stuff you love to see your new $2500 computer do.

I researched this new purchase for months before. I was on the fence of not giving apple a extra $1500 for a newly redesigned MBP or the previous MBP. Both are basically identical in processing power. the previous model also gave me a choice for this Glossy dislplay. Thanks for thinking of your core designers and media professionals apple.

My first call to apple was to ask which manufactures provided the HD in the new MBP. I wanted to make sure I purchased a drive that matched the apple specs. Apple refused to give me any information. Thanks for keeping your customers informed.

I figured out that Apple is using Hitachi and Segate drives. I purchused the
Seagate Momentus 7200 drive. I bit the bullit and decided to let my vanity
convince me that I needed the new machine.
Without booting the new machine I swapped the drive out. Installed the OSX 10.5.5 from the install disks.

Right off the bat I had problems booting from the new internal drive. (it could not see a OS) Basiclly the only way I was able to get the internal drive to boot was to remove the drive and install the OS onto the new drive as it was running in a external case. After the install. I could boot the new drive from the external case with no problems. It ran perfect when the new drive ran externally. Cool. I place the new drive back into the laptop.
Once the drive was back in. Boot time was 2min. Then things ran sluggish.
reboot. Back to 5-10min boot up times and everthing ran Bad. Place the same drive back into the external case Boot, runs perfect.
Hmmm.
Long story short. A Apple certified tech told me that the drive maybe dying.
Highly unlikely, but symptoms match a dying drive.

Second identical Drive comes. I install it internally in the MBP, clone the OS. SAME PROBLEM!! And guess What. take the same new drive put it in the external case, Runs perfect. Two drives that do not work only when installed inside the MBP. This is a apple problem.

My first support call to Apple. Two hours on the phone. Did nothing I had not already done. I had to stop the conversation to go back to work cause who has 4 hours in the middle of the day to chat to support. I call back later to continue because I was told that there were a couple of things left to try. I was told upon returning to tech support that everything had been tried and that they were no longer going to help me. They refused to continue my previous session. They also told me that the drive was faulty and that because it was a 3rd party drive they will not offer any other support. They also told me that the Segate Momentus was not certified by apple to work with this machine. My response was "really are you joking"
They told me to call Segate and confirm that the drive is certified. At this point my feet hurt because I'm getting the run around.
I'm a verrrryyy patient person. I call Seagate. I feel like a idiot when I ask.
But the response was "its a hard drive why would it not be qualified to work"

I call the the best online mac upgrade sales store in the world, who i purchased the drives from. And ask if they have heard anything regarding my issues. They tell me that the problem I am having is a KNOWN ISSUE to Apple. He told me that 1 in 10 new MBP are experiencing this problem. He also mentioned the some new MBP are also having Ram issues too.
It is a hardware issue that is not working with some 3rd party drives.

Went to the local retail store. I went to return the whole dam computer. Before I asked they offered to give me a new machine. Now, I can get this new machine and have the same exact problem. I took my chances and swapped it. Ran straight to a Apple certified Tech to place my segate into the new machine. He swapped it, it booted withing a minute and it runs perfect now.

APPLE KNOWS ABOUT THIS PROBLEM. They obviously blew me off over the phone. They obviously If you are having the same problems go get a new machine. Do not let Apple intimidate you with their bully Bush-Cheney tactics. I can go one for quite some time about how apple sucks but for now the only way to get over it is to makes sure that we do not back down and stay informed.

I wrote this because it is part therapeutic for me. But also I was unable find helpful info about this issue. I hope this helps and good luck.

MacBook

Should I get 2.0GHz or 2.4GHz? Is there a big difference? I sorta want the backlit keyboard... And I assume I shouldn't buy RAM from Apple?

Time Machine

Can I use any external hard drive for Time Machine, or do I need to use Apple's Time Capsule. Is it just me or is it overpriced? If so, why would I buy it?

Do I need an external hard drive to use it, or can I back it up on my actual iMac?

cheers.

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Boot a custom operating system from a DVD./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_xp_bootable.jpg" width="179" height="149" class="right" align="right"It's certainly not a trick you can't pull off with a CD, but putting a live-booting operating system on a DVD gives you a lot more space to fit the apps you really want and use, along with any files you keep going back to. You can a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-linux-download/roll-your-own-ubuntu-live-cd-with-reconstructor-276092.php"roll your own Ubuntu system/a with a href="http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/index.php?option=com_remositoryItemid=33func=selectid=1"Reconstructor/a, or back up your particular Linux desktop by a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/linux-tip/make-an-ubuntu-backup-live-cddvd-with-remastersys-330181.php"making a live DVD/a with a href="http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/"remastersys/a. You can even make your own live-booting Windows XP CD with a href="http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=359"this guide from TackTech/a. And when you're tired of pretending to get things done in live operating systems, try out some racing, shooting, volleyball, and ten other free Linux games on the a href="http://live.linux-gamers.net/"linuX-gamers.net Live DVD/a./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"9. Smooth over disc scratches with household items./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_lemon_pledge.jpg" width="250" height="250" class="right" align="right"From the files of the Can't Believe It Really Works Department: If you've got a DVD (or CD) that your drive skips on or refuses to play, and it doesn't look like it was dragged from the bumper on a cross-country trip, get out a little standard white, non-gel toothpaste, rub a little in the scratched portions, and buff it off. The stuff might just polish the disc enough, and smooth out its surface, to let a laser do its thing. If you're not sure that the tube in your bathroom cabinet passes muster, try reaching under the sink and a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/macgyver/macgyver-tip--smooth-a-scratched-dvd-with-pledge-190634.php"polishing the disc with Pledge/a. The light wax can fill in the cracks and crevices and get you back to, uh, being productive, of course./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"8. Mount ISO files as virtual drives./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_isodisk.jpg" width="202" height="166" class="right" align="right"If you've backed up a favorite game disc, flick, or other DVD to ISO, or just happened to grab one from the ether of the web, you might not always want to spend the time, or spare DVD-R, on burning that imagemdash;and, besides, it'll run a lot faster from a hard drive. Mounting an ISO image as if it were a real disc in a drive is an established hack, and one that's pretty darned handy. We like a href="http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html"Virtual CloneDrive/a for Windows, the built-in Disk Utility in Mac OS X, and a href="http://www.acetoneiso.netsons.org/"AcetoneISO2/a for Linux. They'll all save you a disk, and lend you that clever feeling that you've pulled a fast one on your system somehow./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"7. Put Wikipedia on a DVD./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_wikipedia.png" width="134" height="154" class="right" align="right"To make the vast wealth of Wikipedia data available to schools without constant internet access, the a href="http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/children-charity.htm"SOS Children's Villages/a group created a 2.9GB, 5,500-article edition of the user-edited encyclopedia, a href="http://schools-wikipedia.org/"Wikipedia school edition/a, that puts 20 million words at the fingertips of anyone who wants them. Great for on-the-go research (that you'll want to double-check and properly source, of course), actual school use, and it's one BitTorrent download you'll want to keep seeding after you're done grabbing it./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"6. Create ISOs from DVDs./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_free_iso_creators.jpg" width="250" height="126" align="right" class="right"Need a copy of a DVD but lack for a blank? Want to re-create that perfectly ripped DVD of emSpace Ghost/em episodes for multiple friends? An ISO file is your best friend, because it works on any system in a ton of software apps. Windows users have, for example, the a href="http://www.minidvdsoft.com/isocreator/index.html"Free ISO Creator/a, Linux users can a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/create-iso-disk-images-and-generate-md5-checksums-268304.php"hack one together from the terminal/a, and Mac users can a href="http://macapper.com/2007/03/29/disk-images-create-virtual-disk-images-on-os-x/"create disk images using the built-in Disk Utility/a. Grab a few DVDs you'd never want to lose to the ravages of time and create an ISO you keep backed upmdash;one day, you'll be really glad you did./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"5. Automatically catalog your DVD collection/h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_dvd_hunter.jpg" width="240" height="150" class="right" align="right"If you're a film nut, pack rat, or some mix of both, it can be all kinds of convenient to know what you've got on the shelf to watch, trade, or ripmdash;or just print out and brag to your friends about. We've previously highlighted two free apps that can do thatmdash;a href="http://www.emdb.tk/"Eric's Movie Database/a for Windows and a href="http://jares.altervista.org/Dvd_Hunter.xhtml"DVD Hunter/a for Macsmdash;but the $40 a href="http://delicious-monster.com/"Delicious Library/a (Mac OS X) and a href="http://www.invelos.com/dvdpro/Info.aspx"DVD Profiler/a ($30, Windows) won out in our a href="http://lifehacker.com/400425/reader-picks-for-best-movie-collection-manager-delicious-library-and-dvd-profiler"Battle of the Media Collection Managers/a for their intuitive interfaces and cataloging power./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"4. Easily play ripped DVDs./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_dvd_play.jpg" width="240" height="140" class="right" align="right"There are lots of tools to rip video files from DVDs, but most of those videos take a hit in quality for smaller file sizes. On the other hand, getting those VIDEO_TS folders to just up and play isn't half as simple. At least, until you download Lifehacker's own a href="http://lifehacker.com/360658/browse-and-play-your-ripped-dvds-with-dvd-play"DVD Play/a tool, which thumbnails Amazon cover art for any rips you've got stashed in a folder and plays them using that multi-tool of multimedia, a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/"VLC Media Player/a. If you've only got a few discs ripped onto your drive, or you just like to do it yourself, you can also check out Hackszine's guide to a href="http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/play_ripped_dvds_with_vlc.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558"playing ripped DVDs with VLC/a./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"3. Get your DVDs on your iPod or iPhone for free./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_ipod_movies.jpg" width="261" height="144" class="right" align="right"The idea of watching TV episodes or entire movies from your iPod sounds like an air travel veteran's dream, until one realizes that Apple entirely expects you to pay separately for an iTunes copy of the flick. Skip that noise by using some really simple workarounds. Rick Broida explained a while back how to a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/ipod/alpha-geek-copy-dvds-to-your-ipod-235150.php"copy DVDs to our iPod/a using the free a href="http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/"DVD Decrypter/a and a href="http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/"Videora iPod Converter/a for Windows, and the mighty a href="http://handbrake.fr/?article=download"HandBrake/a for Mac OS X. There's since been Windows and Linux versions of HandBrake released, but two of your current Windows-using Lifehacker editors have found the free version of the a href="http://www.smallvideosoft.com/download.php"Freez iPod Video Converter/a to be a fast, reliable converter to iPod-friendly formats./p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"2. Burn any video file to a playable DVD./h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/top10_dvd_burner.jpg" width="280" height="225" class="right" align="right"In most cases, the idea of burning nearly any flick to a playable DVD is a lot easier than the implementation. Adam's run down an app and a method, however, to a href="http://lifehacker.com/5082262/how-to-burn-any-video-file-to-a-playable-video-dvd"burning any video file to a playable video DVD/a, using the a href="http://www.dvdflick.net/"DVD Flick/a app for Windows. 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We've run down the more involved process for a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/linux/rip-dvds-in-linux-the-semi+easy-way-330983.php"DVD ripping in Linux/a, while any user can rip DVDs with a href="http://handbrake.fr/"Handbrake/a or a href="http://www.mactheripper.org/"MacTheRipper/a. If you never want to choose single bit-anything, these tools won't make you do so./p pWhat magic can you work with a blank (or media-stuffed) DVD or an ISO file? What tricks would you like to pull off, but need explained? 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There's been a serious dearth of Hello Kitty-branded products these days, but the dry-spell is thankfully at an end, with the arrival of the Hello Kitty C1. The crazy cat's apparently first-ever netbook is (as you can see in the photo) quite a looker, and it's packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU with 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 945 GSE Express chipset and a 120GB hard drive. The 10.1-inch netbook's also got two USB ports, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and WiFi. It's going to cost you 890 smackers to make this yours, but the sassiness alone kind of makes it worth it, doesn't it?

[Via CNET]

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div align="center"a href="http://www.geekstuff4u.com/hello-kitty-c1.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/hellokittynetbook_270x206.jpg" //a/div div align="left"There's been a serious dearth of a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/HelloKitty/"Hello Kitty/a-branded products these days, but the dry-spell is thankfully at an end, with the arrival of the Hello Kitty C1. The crazy cat's apparently first-ever netbook is (as you can see in the photo) quite a looker, and it's packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU with 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 945 GSE Express chipset and a 120GB hard drive. The 10.1-inch netbook's also got two USB ports, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and WiFi. It's going to cost you 890 smackers to make this yours, but the sassiness alone kind of makes it worth it, doesn't it?br /br /[Via a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10105765-1.html?part=rssamp;tag=feedamp;subj=Crave"CNET/a]/divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hello-kitty-c1-netbook-packs-a-lotta-tude-into-a-small-package/"Hello Kitty C1 netbook packs a lotta 'tude into a small package/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:37:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.geekstuff4u.com/hello-kitty-c1.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hello-kitty-c1-netbook-packs-a-lotta-tude-into-a-small-package/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1380039/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hello-kitty-c1-netbook-packs-a-lotta-tude-into-a-small-package/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iDoW2szKmmEOeONNSkmblSB3yTc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iDoW2szKmmEOeONNSkmblSB3yTc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=4rDaxXxr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=4rDaxXxr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=V7hYdsFi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=V7hYdsFi" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/jEBcwZEx-C4" height="1" width="1"/

A solution for playing JVC camcorder(mod files) problems
Question 1: "I recently purchased a JVC camcorder that records video as .MOD files. I can't seem to edit the files or play them on my PC. Is there a way to convert .MOD files to .MPG or something that works on my computer?"

Question 2: I have a video file off my JVC as well and wonted to play it on WMP so i changed the file extension from .MOD to .MPEG. Now the problem i have is that the video quality is poor. It?ˉs like the video cant keep up with the playing speed, lines drag when something moves. I know this quality is poor because it plays fine on cyberlink power dvd. Any help plz on how to fix the poor quality????

Question 3: I change the ext. mod to avi or mpg , and it works but the problem no sound at all.. .try to burn it into dvd, no luck, i try to burn it into vcd no luck also...

Introduction: .MOD files are JVC's implementation of MPEG-2 transport streams, similar to a VOB file on a DVD or the M2T files used on Sony hard drive camcorders.

Solution:
I actually just found a program called ********* Mod Video Converter. This program will allow you to export your video(s) as .AVI,WMV,MP4,3GP files etc. Here?ˉs a brief overview of how to do it:

1. Install and run ********* Mod Video Converter
2. Add files
3. Set output video format
4. Click the ?°Start?± button to start the conversion.
This tool also allows you to split,join,crop Mod/Tod files, it is very powerful.
I hope this helps, if anyone has a better method or a better software for doing this, please let me know!

Question 1: "I recently purchased a JVC camcorder that records video as .MOD files. I can't seem to edit the files or play them on my PC. Is there a way to convert .MOD files to .MPG or something that works on my computer?":eek:

img src="http://c.fsdn.com/fm/screenshots/15418_thumb.jpg" align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10" jOggplayer is an open source, platform- independant, graphical Ogg Vorbis player developed using Java. It features the usual basics needed to enjoy your files, including playing files from your hard drive or streaming from an URL, individual file play or multiple file looping play, sequential or random play, volume control that goes to 11, a visual song progress indicator, etc. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / This release added Last.fm Scrobbling, improved the playlist load time, and added the ability to save a playlist of only your favorite/checked songs from the Playlist dropdown. Bugs with playlists of only 1 or 2 files when looping is enabled, with adding to an empty playlist drop-down, and loading songs from a playlist file were fixed. The default playlist file is now "jOggPlaylist.pls". An Ant build file is now included. An option for automatically playing was added. Some help was added. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ICXDGQ_gkAQ5gylZ52VMoesJ1ho/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ICXDGQ_gkAQ5gylZ52VMoesJ1ho/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-global/~4/O0GecNEfrE0" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://c.fsdn.com/fm/screenshots/15418_thumb.jpg" align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10" jOggplayer is an open source, platform- independant, graphical Ogg Vorbis player developed using Java. It features the usual basics needed to enjoy your files, including playing files from your hard drive or streaming from an URL, individual file play or multiple file looping play, sequential or random play, volume control that goes to 11, a visual song progress indicator, etc. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / This release added Last.fm Scrobbling, improved the playlist load time, and added the ability to save a playlist of only your favorite/checked songs from the Playlist dropdown. Bugs with playlists of only 1 or 2 files when looping is enabled, with adding to an empty playlist drop-down, and loading songs from a playlist file were fixed. The default playlist file is now "jOggPlaylist.pls". An Ant build file is now included. An option for automatically playing was added. Some help was added. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mIOb2gQXPQ9ocMqzxdsmJj87-2c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mIOb2gQXPQ9ocMqzxdsmJj87-2c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/O0GecNEfrE0" height="1" width="1"/

The path to Netflix-enhanced glory hasn't been entirely trouble free for everyone, this time it's posters on AVForum noticing a distinct lack of audio on Xbox 360s connected to their HDTV by HDMI. So far suggested solutions for the afflicted include plugging in the hard drive while the system is on, or waiting several minutes before switching the monitor to HDMI, and repeating them every time the system is started. It's not the first time we've heard of UK-centric HDMI weirdness, any of you hearing a whole lot of nothing while gaming (that's not attributable to hard drive installs)?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/n...ox-360-owners/

Anyone has an idea does it matter if I carry my macbook around when it is in sleep, does it affect the hard drive cuz I know shaking and vibration is no good for HDs...

cheers.

I just got the new aluminum macbook, and am transferring things from my old Powerbook G4 to my new macbook through an external hard drive. I was able to import all of my photos, but for some reason it wont let me import my albums. What should I be exporting from my old iphoto onto my harddrive to import my albums on the my new computer. This new iphoto wont let me import an xml file or any album things, just the photos...

Thanks in advance!! :confused: