A pretty good show again this week on the Global Geek, despite some technical trouble on my end (which you’ll hear was starting to frustrate me), the Geeks got through the whole show but as usual ran over the one-hour mark. :mrgreen: I’m in a tad bit of a rush this week so the notes are a bit more succinct than normal. Enjoy!
Handbrake
Solutions for <ahem> archiving your DVDs have been covered on occasion on the GGP, and this week I’ve got a great option for those of you running OS X. Handbrake allows you to rip archive a DVD to a digital format that can be stored (and played back) on devices other than a DVD player. Handbrake will allow conversion to more than a half-dozen different file formats.
Download Handbrake.
Houdini
Houdini is a simple application that allows you to simply manage hidden files and folders. If you need to hide files or documents from someone else who is not overly technical Houdini can help (though I don’t recommend using hidden files as a security mechanism, but that’s a rant for another post). Through a simple GUI you can manage your hidden files and folders and change the from hidden to visible on command.
Give Houdini a try for basic hidden folder management.
PTHVolume
Finally this week a menu-bar add-on for controlling the volume of your various audio outputs independently. This application is restricted to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), but does work pretty well. It provides an extra level of control over a system-level function which is something that Apple doesn’t often provide out of the box.
For a wee bit more control over volume, download PTHVolume.
Join Dave and I again this coming week for the next installment of the GGP.
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