This is probably the last time we’ll post about the Boxee box, as it’s not really an Apple product, but given that it’s based on software that lots of Apple TV and Mac mini owners use, and that we’ve been following its release, I figure we can update you one more time. Over at CES, [...]

When you pack a 16-inch laptop so full of technology that it requires water cooling, well, you have to expect some compromises. First, the Fujitsu LifeBook N7010 is nearly 2-inches thick and weighs 7 and a half pounds. Then there’s the little limitation of that 1 hour battery life. In return for your suffering you [...]

Windows/Mac/Linux: The long-awaited cross-platform media player Songbird officially reaches its 1.0 release today. The open-source application—built on the same platform as Firefox—promises to bring exciting new innovations to a software jukebox market that has become arguably quite stale. Like Firefox, Songbird is extensible, meaning that users can customize the look, feel, and features of Songbird [...]

HandBrake — the popular open-source video conversion utility — has been updated to 0.9.3. The new version is available for download. HandBrake has primarily been used to help users “rip” commercial DVDs encrypted with some form of copy protection, so users can watch videos on their computer without having the DVD installed, or converted to [...]

Multimedia becomes a standard in today’s computing, with personal computers or handhelds. The main problems of multimedia are: real-time processing, and big data! Processor’s speed is getting faster and faster by the day, so the “real-time processing” demand is not a problem anymore. The big data is just a little problem with today’s storage media. [...]