Macs will eventually get H.264 (AVC) hardware acceleration
for both decoding and encoding. In fact, ATI X1600 Mobility can handle that
already via AVIVO. Before Jobs gives the greenlight, someone has ought to come
up with a solution to help out the folks with low-end Macs to speed up their DVD ripping process to AVC format.
Enter the Elgato Turbo 264. The USB dongle with a curiously spelled name does the exact same job as the ADS Instant Video To Go USB encoder except the Elgato bundles their in-house converter whereas ADS licenses the software from ArcSoft. If Video To Go is any indication, the Elgato should improve encoding speed by 2 to 4 times. Practically speaking, I do think people still need this despite of the presence of duo core in iMacs and MacBooks, because converting stuff into H.264 at 640×480 is still painfully slow even with these new advanced processors. A co-processor especially designed for the task couldn’t be more welcome.




Axiotron today announced that it has 
During business trip or holiday there is always the need for an alarm clock,
be it for early meetings or for that afternoon party on the hotel pool that you
can’t miss, it all depends on the scenario but one thing is for sure – you need
to wake up in a happy mood or else the first hours of the day will be a
disaster.
Good news for iphone fan, according to CNET, Cingular has “confirmed” June 11th
as the release date for the Apple iPhone. Though, I would like to add in that
this was “confirmed” by a customer service manager in the sales department, so
just keep that in mind. This date seems to hold up because Apple’s Worldwide
Developers Conference (WWDC) is scheduled to be held in San Francisco June
11-15.
It looks more like a tiny trash can to me, but this
ceramic Music mug is actually a universal
speaker system. Designed by Masato Tokuno, the mug
Century from Japan have recently added a new case for the
small iPod Shuffle
GelaSkins are made using premium grade vinyl with
advanced adhesive technology by 3M and photo quality graphics by artists