66Gb iDvd encoding - Professional quality Movie duration - 1:59:20 (halving the duration of the movie produced the same results) Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated. IDvd 7.0.3 QuickTime.? (latest, off iLife 09) RAM Memory installed 4Gb Free disk space - approx. Quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection. Developer home idvd 7.0.4 Let your admiring audience enjoy those movies and slideshows in their living rooms.
IDVD was no longer preinstalled on Macs shipping with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and was not available on the Mac App Store with all of the other iLife apps. While initially available only for Macs with a SuperDrive, it was included until 2011 with all new Macs from iDVD 6 onwards, Apple supported the ability to burn projects with third-party optical drives. IDVD appears to be OK for simple & short kids' projects, but is not serious sofware.
Attemps to burn DVDs of even moderate playing length (20 minutes or more) results in iDVD running interminably without burning anything, sometimes for up to 14 hours. The unfortunate passerby may have the dog's teeth embedded in her shin, with blood running down her leg - the owner will still look her right in the eye and deny that the dog is biting herĪirPort Extreme and 802.11g gear - Recent articles about using non-Apple gear for 802.IDVD 4.0.1 remains plagued by a long-burn problem that Apple has yet to acknowledge or fix. Why? Well, for one thing, their owners are in constant denial. In last week's coverage of Macworld Expo in New York, I ran out of space to discuss one of the more subtle differences between this year's Macworld Expo and previous ones: the banning of children 12 years of age and younger from the exhibit floorĮmail clients are a lot like dogs. Macworld Expo New York’s Ill-Advised Age Policy
What Apple didn't mention at the time, but recently revealed in a Knowledge Base article, is that the update makes it possible to run iDVD 3 on any Macintosh with a PowerPC G4 or G5 processor - not just Macs with a built-in SuperDrive, as previously required
WOzNet: Wheels in the Sky Keep on Tuning - After co-founding Apple Computer and teaching computer skills to fifth graders, what's next for Steve Wozniak? Last week Woz took the wraps off wOzNet, the project his new company, Wheels of Zeus (wOz), has been working on for the past 18 monthsĪ few weeks ago, Apple released iDVD 3.0.1 Update, an apparently minor patch that provides, in Apple's brief description, "improved performance and stability for encoding, burning, and managing your iDVD projects." (The updater is a 4.1 MB download.) ITrip Station Finder Released - When Travis Butler reviewed Griffin Technology's iTrip, a $35 FM transmitter that works with the iPod to play music over any radio, he gave the device high marks for design and ingenuity, but noted that it was sometimes difficult to find a clear frequency, especially in urban areas (see "Taking an iTrip: Three FM Transmitters" in TidBITS-681) Thanks to its a bright color screen, capacious memory, fast processor, and Palm OS 5, the Tungsten T proved innovation was still possible for Palm following several years of humdrum activity (see "Tungsten T Marks New Beginning for Palm" in TidBITS-655)īBEdit 7.0.4 Released - Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 7.0.4, a bug fix update that the company recommends for all owners of its flagship text editor, BBEdit 7.0 Palm Tungsten T2 Improves on Original - Last November, Palm's Tungsten T marked a new beginning for the handheld maker. We also note the releases of Palm’s Tungsten T2, BBEdit 7.0.4, Griffin’s iTrip Station Finder, and Steve Wozniak’s new wOzNet wireless network.
Also, Adam questions IDG’s Macworld Expo policy barring children under 13, and Jeff Carlson reveals how to use iDVD 3 on Macs without SuperDrives. Switching to a new email program is a harder decision than swapping other software – Matt Neuburg explains why Mailsmith 2.0 is the email client for him.