After waiting for weeks, we finally and successfully put our hands on a sample of the 2 TB Western Digital HD (thanks to our partner Macway).
Green HD series from Western Digital are probably the perfect unit for network storage, and we installed it in our time Capsule, replacing the 1 TB unit we installed about a year ago.
Once formatted, the HD is perfectly recognized by Time Capsule.
As usual, from the announced 2TB, only 1.8 TB really remains available. You will find the procedure to exchange the HD of your Time Capsule in a previous article we published last year: http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79
Last but not least, this HD swapping is not currently economically interesting. The 2 TB Green HD from WD is hard to find, without competing models, and its price around 300 Euro, about 3 times more than the 1 TB Green HD from the same manufacturer. However, in couple of months, if Apple does not update specifications of its time capsule it might be a rather financially attracting solution to get a large network storage unit.
Vuze now converts and transfers to iTunes, PS3, Xbox
Vuze has released an update to its BitTorrent client and media player. Version 4.2 can now be used to automatically convert videos to formats required for the iPhone, iPods, Apple TV, PS3 and Xbox 360. iTunes, PS3 and Xbox 360 are each auto-detected, showing up under a list of devices in a new sidebar. Video files can then be dragged and dropped from the library or desktop and onto the appropriate...
Amazon to offer $2.99 VOD high-definition TV shows?
Amazon may be readying the launch of an HD video download service of popular TV shows via its Video On Demand (VOD) service, according to built web pages that are not yet available to the public. While nothing is official, Google search bots have indexed the pages that offer the content, which show each episode will cost $2.99 to download and keep. Another cached page reveals users will be able to...
iPhone App Of The Day - ColorSplash
If you’re someone who is never content with a picture, and always has to manipulate it then ColorSplash might be an app you want to look into. After my playthrough with it, it’s basically a mini-Photoshop only with very limited features. If you’ve used the desaturation tool in Photoshop then you’ll have an idea how ColorSplash works. Basically you take a photo, and you convert bits of the picture to black-and-white. The parts you want left amplified, you leave in color. It leaves a very cool effect, and is quite easy to use.
Apps: AllSecure, Floola, AtomicView
AllSecure 1.2 ($25) is a program that allows users to store all sensitive data in one, encrypted location. The software uses 256-bit AES encryption that helps ensure that personal data is kept private. The update has added a new email item type for securely storing sensitive emails. [Download - 4.6MB]...
More Details on Next-Generation iPhone? 3G Netbook Due This Summer?
Boy Genius Reports reports on a source "pretty high up in AT&T's food chain" who reportedly shared several tidbits of information about the next-generation iPhone. While short on details beyond the addition of an iPhone application to control AT&T's...
Vonage Companion now available for Mac users
Filed under: Software, Internet
Vonage, the international VoIP provider, has just released its Vonage Companion software for OS X. Vonage Companion is available to users who subscribe the the Vonage Pro plan and it basically allows users to use their laptops or desktops to make or receive phone calls. Think of it as Skype but for your Vonage account.You can use Vonage Companion to record calls, set-up conference calls (or separate conference calls into separate phone calls), selective call block, call transfers and more.
I don't have a Vonage Pro account, so I wasn't able to check out the features firsthand, but flipping through the manual (PDF link) it looks pretty powerful. The biggest benefit to a service like this is the ability to make and receive calls from the road, using your Vonage number and account credentials.
Vonage Companion is free for Vonage Pro customers (existing Vonage users will need to upgrade to a Vonage Pro account) and it works with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard, though Vonage strongly recommends having the latest security updates and latest OS updates installed. You can download Vonage Companion here (direct .DMG link)
TUAWVonage Companion now available for Mac users originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset: End of Life?
If the product is still available on the French or EU Apple Stores, the iPhone Bluetooth Headset is "End Of Life" on the US Apple Store.
It remains unclear why Apple removed this product from its catalog. If Apple plans to update this model it would have then maintain it till stock would run empty then come up with the new model... It could also be linked to an issue on the long-term with the product, and to really low salz figures, pushing Apple to let third-parties develop BT headset. However, if hte iPhone OS 3.0 will bring support for Stereo BT and for sure additional third-parties headset, Apple could also come up with a new model, and for hte time being iPhone users might have to find another solution if they do not want to use wire-earbuds.
2 TB in a Time Capsule
After waiting for weeks, we finally and successfully put our hands on a sample of the 2 TB Western Digital HD (thanks to our partner Macway).
Green HD series from Western Digital are probably the perfect unit for network storage, and we installed it in our time Capsule, replacing the 1 TB unit we installed about a year ago.
Once formatted, the HD is perfectly recognized by Time Capsule.
As usual, from the announced 2TB, only 1.8 TB really remains available. You will find the procedure to exchange the HD of your Time Capsule in a previous article we published last year: http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79
Last but not least, this HD swapping is not currently economically interesting. The 2 TB Green HD from WD is hard to find, without competing models, and its price around 300 Euro, about 3 times more than the 1 TB Green HD from the same manufacturer. However, in couple of months, if Apple does not update specifications of its time capsule it might be a rather financially attracting solution to get a large network storage unit.
Vuze now converts and transfers to iTunes, PS3, Xbox
Vuze has released an update to its BitTorrent client and media player. Version 4.2 can now be used to automatically convert videos to formats required for the iPhone, iPods, Apple TV, PS3 and Xbox 360. iTunes, PS3 and Xbox 360 are each auto-detected, showing up under a list of devices in a new sidebar. Video files can then be dragged and dropped from the library or desktop and onto the appropriate...
Amazon to offer $2.99 VOD high-definition TV shows?
Amazon may be readying the launch of an HD video download service of popular TV shows via its Video On Demand (VOD) service, according to built web pages that are not yet available to the public. While nothing is official, Google search bots have indexed the pages that offer the content, which show each episode will cost $2.99 to download and keep. Another cached page reveals users will be able to...
iPhone App Of The Day - ColorSplash
If you’re someone who is never content with a picture, and always has to manipulate it then ColorSplash might be an app you want to look into. After my playthrough with it, it’s basically a mini-Photoshop only with very limited features. If you’ve used the desaturation tool in Photoshop then you’ll have an idea how ColorSplash works. Basically you take a photo, and you convert bits of the picture to black-and-white. The parts you want left amplified, you leave in color. It leaves a very cool effect, and is quite easy to use.
Apps: AllSecure, Floola, AtomicView
AllSecure 1.2 ($25) is a program that allows users to store all sensitive data in one, encrypted location. The software uses 256-bit AES encryption that helps ensure that personal data is kept private. The update has added a new email item type for securely storing sensitive emails. [Download - 4.6MB]...
More Details on Next-Generation iPhone? 3G Netbook Due This Summer?
Boy Genius Reports reports on a source "pretty high up in AT&T's food chain" who reportedly shared several tidbits of information about the next-generation iPhone. While short on details beyond the addition of an iPhone application to control AT&T's...
Vonage Companion now available for Mac users
Filed under: Software, Internet
Vonage, the international VoIP provider, has just released its Vonage Companion software for OS X. Vonage Companion is available to users who subscribe the the Vonage Pro plan and it basically allows users to use their laptops or desktops to make or receive phone calls. Think of it as Skype but for your Vonage account.You can use Vonage Companion to record calls, set-up conference calls (or separate conference calls into separate phone calls), selective call block, call transfers and more.
I don't have a Vonage Pro account, so I wasn't able to check out the features firsthand, but flipping through the manual (PDF link) it looks pretty powerful. The biggest benefit to a service like this is the ability to make and receive calls from the road, using your Vonage number and account credentials.
Vonage Companion is free for Vonage Pro customers (existing Vonage users will need to upgrade to a Vonage Pro account) and it works with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard, though Vonage strongly recommends having the latest security updates and latest OS updates installed. You can download Vonage Companion here (direct .DMG link)
TUAWVonage Companion now available for Mac users originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset: End of Life?
If the product is still available on the French or EU Apple Stores, the iPhone Bluetooth Headset is "End Of Life" on the US Apple Store.
It remains unclear why Apple removed this product from its catalog. If Apple plans to update this model it would have then maintain it till stock would run empty then come up with the new model... It could also be linked to an issue on the long-term with the product, and to really low salz figures, pushing Apple to let third-parties develop BT headset. However, if hte iPhone OS 3.0 will bring support for Stereo BT and for sure additional third-parties headset, Apple could also come up with a new model, and for hte time being iPhone users might have to find another solution if they do not want to use wire-earbuds.
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