The boys as usual discuss the latest news that has com from the wonderful world of the bog.. sorry blogosphere with Justin getting a little more obsessed than usual about blue boxes- I’ll swear I’ll never look at the TARDIS in the same way again, thanks for nothing dude 
News:
Dave’s Pog Mo Thoin: The “new” Mac Mini (a bit of a bummer really)
Go Daddy Promotion
Justin’s App Picks:
- Magnetic Sports Soccer (Wi-Fi version was fun & less drain on battery than using Bluetooth).
- Also Air Video (Free) (stream video from your Mac to iPhone or even iPad)
Emailbag: Message from Brad on Virtualbox with update provided by Dave. Link to Virtualbox changelog
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That’s all the craic from this week’s Mac
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Hi folks, just giving out a quick tip I picked up here while in the process of “backing up” my DVD collection via Handbrake. Came across this issue while transcoding my “District 9″ DVD where in scenes where the aliens were speaking, I expected to see the translation within the film but instead got nothing. This is due to the fact that some movies when faced with a foreign language use the built in DVD subtitle system standard as opposed to incorporating it into the movie like “Transformers” for example. So how to fix this problem in Handbrake is as follows:
1- Here we have your typical Handbrake screen which you get after importing your DVD “Video_TS” folder:
2- From here after you set up your video & audio settings, you select the subtitles section as follows:
3- Once you have followed the above instructions & completed the transcoding of your video, it will display the subtitles where a foreign language is spoken.
It should be noted that some movies as stated previously will have the subtitles embedded into the film itself, so you may need to check through each DVD film before you put it through Handbrake via the Mac’s built-in DVD player which can play Video_TS folders or via the “Preview Window” function in Handbrake itself (it’s the seventh icon across at top of the application). This is in order to save you having to use this excellent Handbrake function if not required.
Hope this is a helpful tip.
Dave S
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This week, the boys are joined by The Boss from New Jersey (sorry not that one) Steve “The Mac Attack” Stanger to talk about all things Apple as well as hairstyle changes/tips . So relax & enjoy this week’s show.
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Guest Slot – Steve Stanger (themacattack.tv, twitter.com/tmasteve)
Dave’s Slot - Apple sees the light, gets ambient…(patent) & Apple patents invisible interface solution based on light (The war on the button continues)
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Just after reading a good article over at Appleinsider about reveal that new & improved Zune HD2 will effectively be MS answer to the iPod Touch ( Haven’t we been here before ? ) as per following section:
“At this week’s Game Developers Conference, Microsoft unveiled its new XNA Game Studio 4.0, which allows developers to create games that can run on a variety of devices, including Windows desktops, the Xbox 360 and future phones running Windows Phone 7 Series. In addition, ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley said Microsoft is working on a “Zune HD2″ that will be similar to the iPod touch, in that it will have no phone functionality.”
And what about the current ZuneHD owners ( How many are there ?), will they get to share in this new version of the dev kit ? Unfortunately not as the new dev kit is only compatible with Windows Phone 7 & the new Zune HD2.
Would you seriously consider this lot again considering that 1G iPod Touch (2007) still runs apps from App Store just fine. Have’nt seen Apple break support yet.
Think Different before you buy into the next MS device (they’re throwing enough money at it as usual).
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