No matter how you slice it, emulation-based gaming is pretty awesome, and you can’t knock retro goodness. Alex Baggott over at AppleInsider has written an excellent guide as to how to run classic late 80’s and early 90’s console titles on the Apple Silicon-based Macs with M1, M2, and M3 processors. The guide focuses on […]
There’s exceptions to every rule and some of them get pretty interesting. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, the Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions. The latest batch of […]
If you think Web-based video is impressive now, wait a bit. Per AppleInsider, the Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data rate as today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard. The new H.265 […]
Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.6. The new version, a 7.1 megabyte download, offers a wide variety of fixes and changes that have been documented here. HandBrake 0.9.6 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later to install and run.
Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.4. The new version, which can be found here, boasts the following fixes and changes: – Improves speed, size and quality with official notes available here. HandBrake 0.9.4 is available for free and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to […]