Comments on: Mostly Lisa’s Top 6 Media Apps for your Mac

By: Making and editing a screencast — kristarella.com

Making and editing a screencast — kristarella.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:43:06 +0000

[...] After trying those ones out I thought I should look for actual recommendations, and seemed to remember one on Mostly Lisa. [...]

By: vlc mp4 codec

vlc mp4 codec — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:47:30 +0000

[...] I talked about it more in depth here. Works really well and it looks like it actually belongs on ahttp://www.mostlylisa.com/2008/05/22/mostly-lisas-top-6-media-apps-fo r-your-mac/mp4 file extensionJul 11, 2005 … effectively vlc starting V0.8 plays directly .mp4 files without [...]

By: steelie

steelie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:13:41 +0000

Oh, right…

Not sure if you saw this bit o’ news already… me thinks it’s up your alley (’specially given this post):

http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/06/04/vlc-media-player-on-iphone- ipod-touch/

By: steelie

steelie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:12:59 +0000

Holy delayed response on my part…

Forgot to mention that TubeTV works for far more than just the Google and YouTube videos as described in the blurb I copied over. You can actually download any flash based video from any site you are visiting. And If the site you are visiting has multiple videos on the same page, simply press play on the one you wish to download and that will be the one that TubeTV targets.

If you want to download more than one video from a single page, just press pause on any already downloading movies, press play on the next one, press the download button and VOILA!

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

By: Spike

Spike — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:42:22 +0000

Never tried it, but I think MPEG Streamclip will work with .flv files if you have Perian installed.

Another second for using Spotlight to launch apps. Here’s a related Leopard trick I found a few months back: add a handy “Recent Applications” stack to your dock with this shell command (all on one line):

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

Activate with a ‘killall Dock’ command.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:03:16 +0000

@Kenji Totally agree about the icon. Wrote a post yesterday with a list of image software, you can see the difference icons make and how appealing they make the software. @erik I can't believe I didn't come across Pixen when I was writing the aforementioned post!

By: Ryan Ray

Ryan Ray — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:46:09 +0000

I’ve never experienced PodWorks, but I will let you know my findings!

By: erik

erik — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:59:05 +0000

glad that steelie mentioned Handbrake – that’s a fantastic piece of software.

I also recommend Pixen for editing photos. http://opensword.org/Pixen/

“Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it’s great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it’s Free!”

Great post!

By: Kenji

Kenji — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:10:28 +0000

VisualHub is excellent – just a shame it lets itself down with such a poor icon. These days on Mac, the attractiveness of the icon can make or break an app’s popularity, at least in the inital stages at least

By: Matt Przybylski

Matt Przybylski — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:27:44 +0000

kristarella: To be absolutely honest with you, i don’t remember. :\ It’s been a while since I had it installed.

Lisa: I only ever used QS for app launching and again, to be quite honest, i never knew what the big fuss was as to its other uses. all i needed was an app launcher so the spotlight method works great for me.