Andy Beaumont

Dropzone

Dropzone is really nice.

Pixelmator 1.5 released

And it looks like the best update yet. Finally Pixelmator has all the tools you’ll need to use it for web work, including slicing, export for web and an info panel (of sorts). Bye bye Photoshop. I never have to look at your stupid clunky custom interface again.

EyeTV and Turbo264

Two products from Elgato, EyeTV lets you use your Mac as a PVR and Turbo264 massively speeds up video encoding to h.264. You’d expect them to work together beautifully but this is what I see every time I ask EyeTV to export a recording through Turbo264.

The last operation could not be completed because an error of type -536870176 occurred.

Such a shame that they can’t seem to make two of their own products work together. If only The Tube wasn’t so utterly terrible, maybe if there were a viable alternative to EyeTV, Elgato might get their act together.

I don’t know if this still happens with the new Turbo264 HD, but the fact that it might is putting me off buying one.

MacBook hard drive replacement tip

If you try to restore from Time Machine after a hard drive switch, Time Machine won’t see your new drive after you’ve formatted it until you restart.