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Macbreak WeeklyPick of the Week: VLC Remote Interface WidgetMerlin Mann | Apr 4 2007
Download VLC Remote Widget v0.2 (On each MacBreak Weekly, guests choose a "Pick of the Week" -- a piece of software or hardware, a web site, or just a cool trick -- that they want to share with the audience. Here's Merlin's pick for this week's episode) For my money, VLC Media Player is the coolest OS X digital video player out there. It's free, open source, frequently updated, and seems to have no trouble running most every kind of video I've thrown at it. Currently, one way I use VLC is to play movies on an old (pre-IR remote) PowerBook that's S-video'd up to our TV. This works like a champ, but, if I want to pause or fast-forward the movie, I have to haul my lazy ass over to the Mac to do so. To the rescue comes VLC Remote Interface Widget. This is a very simple, (currently beta) Dashboard widget that lets me access the VLC controls on a Mac over my local network via a second Mac that's sitting on my lap. Just tell the controlling Mac what the IP address of the movie-running Mac is and to which port it should send the commands ("8080" should work fine), and presto: your laptop turns into a $3000 remote for your $3000 PVR. And all for free. :-) It would be cool if future releases mirrored more of the VLC key commands -- e.g., I've gotten very fast at 5 Comments
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MacBreak Weekly Special: the iTunes & EMI dealMerlin Mann | Apr 2 2007MacBreak Weekly Special Edition: Fixing A Hole
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Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"Merlin Mann | Feb 28 2007We've started a new feature over on MacBreak Weekly that I really hope becomes a regular thing: "_Mac Whines_!" Yeah, sure, I'm an unapologetic Apple fanboy (I, mean duh), but some stuff about my Mac experience makes me crazy. Have you got a beef with your Mac or OS X you want to shout from the shiny counter of the "Genius" Bar? Yeah, me too. I'll open with:
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MacBreak Weekly taping tonight at 21st AmendmentMerlin Mann | Jan 9 2007
Upcoming.org: MacBreak Weekly Live @ 21st Amendment at 21st Amendment (Tuesday, January 9, 2007) Directions to 21A, from Moscone Center Just a reminder that tonight's live taping of MacBreak Weekly takes place at 21st Amendment starting at 6pm. If you're planning to come to the taping, my advice is to get there early, because we're anticipating a capacity audience (that's a big reason everyone agreed it was better not to do this event at the Apple Store on Steve Day). Leo, Alex, Scott, and I will be discussing today's announcements and may even have some guests. A propos of nothing, I will also take this opportunity to remind Mr. Bourne of his (often repeated) promise to buy everyone on MBW an iPhone on the day that they come out. Just saying. If you come out tonight or see me on the Macworld show floor with MacBreak today, please say hi and introduce yourself.
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Collection of our MacBreak Weekly application linksMerlin Mann | Dec 19 2006Oh, man, I'm so glad someone is doing this. If you want to see the apps we recommend each week on MacBreak Weekly, now you're good to go: read more »POSTED IN:
MacBreak Weekly 12: “Smokin’”Merlin Mann | Oct 24 2006read more » POSTED IN:
Post your MacBreak Weekly ideas to del.icio.us: "mbwideas"Merlin Mann | Oct 24 2006I'll steal a page directly from Amber's book on this one -- if you have something that you think might make a good story for us to cover on MacBreak Weekly, you can add it to del.icio.us with the tag "mbwideas". We check that page pretty regularly (I actually look at it once a day or so), so it's an easy way to get your favorite Mac and Apple stories of the week into the queue for consideration. read more »POSTED IN:
MacBreak Weekly: "iPhone Home"Merlin Mann | Oct 18 2006MacBreak Weekly 11: iPhone Home read more » POSTED IN:
MacBreak Weekly: "Look What They Done To My Boy"Merlin Mann | Oct 10 2006
MacBreak Weekly 10: Look What They Done To My Boy
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Merlin on MacBreak Weekly: Wax On, Wax OffMerlin Mann | Sep 26 2006In which Alex is still on about the notional iPhone (and its current-day antecedents), Leo loves his lumber-swinging MacPro, Scott is completely full of beans, and everyone rags me mercilessly about my fondness for new age nap software. read more »POSTED IN:
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