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How to get TV on your Mac

Will Apple ever equip its Macs with TV tuners? Plenty of users have asked it to, and Apple’s own Front Row software would certainly make a smart user interface for a DVR Apple A1060. But as Apple’s Apple TV set-top box shows, the company’s more interested in persuading consumers to pay to download TV shows from iTunes than watch broadcast telly.

Thankfully, that’s not the end of watching TV on a Mac. Other companies are willing to fill the gap Apple laptop battery has left, and if you want to watch analogue or digital broadcasts, satellite or cable transmissions on your Mac, you can.

The doyen of Mac TV products is Germany’s Elgato, which has come to dominate both the Apple A1045 software and hardware sides of the equation. It’s software is EyeTV, currently at version 2.4, and has a feature list and a slick user interface that puts much of the software bundled with Windows-oriented TV tuner hardware to shame.

Elgato’s EyeTV: select a channel

EyeTV provides all the customary DVR features - record shows there and then, schedule recordings, pause live TV, Apple A1078 etc. - and even allows you to edit recordings to trim out ads and bits of previous and subsequent programmes that have been grabbed along with the show you want to watch.

The software works with Roxio’s Toast disc burning application, if you have it, to facilitate archiving, and it’ll also reformat recordings at the push of a button for the Apple A1148 TV and iPod - and, for that matter, other playback gadgets that support the same H.264 video format.

EyeTV includes a year’s subscription to Europe’s TVTV.com online electronic programme guide, though it’ll also pick up EPG information broadcast by digital TV channels. You can organise channels into favourites, by genre, or by whatever means takes your fancy.

Elgato’s EyeTV: manage and export your recordings

It is, in short, the definitive TV application for the Mac and well worth the €80/$80 (£40) Elgato’s asking for it. Of course, Elgato bundles EyeTV with its own line of TV tuner hardware, but it’ll also work with an array of hardware from other manufacturers, including Plextor A1057 , Twinhan, Terratec, Pinnacle, Miglia and Hauppauge, so you’re not tied to buying Elgato’s own hardware. There’s a full list of EyeTV-compatible tuners

Indeed, Pinnacle has two Mac-oriented products: the digital-only TV for Mac DVB-T Stick and the digital and analogue TV for Mac Hybrid Stick - both of which bundle a cut-down version of EyeTV, EyeTV Lite. They’re priced at £70 and £100, respectively. EyeTV also works with Pinnacle’s otherwise PC-only PCTV series of USB tuners.

Pinnacle’s Mac DVB-T Stick: Freeview ready

Terratec likewise offers Mac versions of its Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity dual digital tuner; Cinergy T² external tuner; digital-only Cinergy T USB XS; and digital/analogue Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS, all bundled with EyeTV Apple A1060.

Hauppauge offers €20 off the price of EyeTV with its compatible hardware products, the WinTV Nova T, WinTV HVR 900 the WinTV HVR 950 and the WinTV Nova TD. Each comes with a code you can key into a page of Elgato’s online store to redeem the discount.

Elgato itself offers are range of very similar products - most come from the same Asian manufacturers and are rebranded by the local suppliers - including the digital/analogue EyeTV Hybrid, the digital-only EyeTV DTT and the dual-tuner digital-only EyeTV Diversity, all USB dongles Apple Powerbook G4 battery , and all HDTV compatible once HDTV programmed is broadcast over the Freeview network. You’ll need a modern Mac to smoothly show the HD picture.

These, and similar products from the other suppliers, certainly work well with Macs, though while they all come bundled with one or more mini aerials, we’d recommend you use them with a standard roof- or loft-mounted antenna to pick up the largest selection of channels.

Hauppauge’s WinTV Nova TD: two tuners to boost reception

Diversity-branded dongles come with two antenna and the ability to use both tuners as a single, stronger receiver. It certainly improves the reception, but, depending on your location Powerbook G4 12 battery, you may find the improvement limited. This isn’t going to change until analogue transmissions are turned off and UK DVB-T signal strengths can be increased

All these tuners connect to a USB 2.0 port, but that’s not the only option available to MacBook Pro users: Terratec also offers the Cinergy T Express, an ExpressCard 34 tuner that makes for a less obtrusive add-on, and one you can leave connected to your laptop when when you’re carrying it around. The Express uses a mini antenna socket Powerbook G4 17 battery, but Terratec bundles an adaptor so that card can take a standard co-axial aerial cable feed.

Terratec’s Cinergy T Express: notebook-friendly

Terratec told us there’s no substantial difference between the USB and ExpressCard tuners - offering two form-factors is more about catering to more buyers’ requirements than delivering a more capable product A1175 . That said, the higher bandwidth provided by ExpressCard may prove advantageous in future.

Incidentally, owners of PowerBooks, with old-style PC Card slots,

Mac TV tuner specialist Miglia also has an ExpressCard product on offer, the TVBook Pro, but it’s a chunkier beast than the Terratec. Miglia offers an analogue USB tuner, the TVMicro Express; and a digital tuner, the TVMini Express. It used to equip these with EyeTV, but a little while back decided to use alternative software, The Tube, from US developer Equinux. It provides essentially the same set of features as EyeTV 2 - which you prefer is largely a matter of personal taste. Officially, it only supports Miglia products and Equinux’s own TubeStick USB tuner, and is not available - apart from the test release - as a standalone product.

Equinux’s The Tube: bundled with Miglia tuners

The hardware products listed above all work with the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) standard used in the UK by the terrestrially broadcast Freeview channels, but there are other transmission modes, specifically cable and satellite. Elgato’s external EyeTV 310, for example, supports DVB-S. There’s a big caveat, however: it doesn’t work with Sky. Yes, the 40Y7001 box has a smartcard - aka CAM (Conditional Access Module) - slot to enable the decryption and display of some European DVB-S services, but Sky works differently.

Elgato’s EyeTV 610 works with the cable-centric DVB-C system, again backed with a CAM slot. At this stage, however, it won’t let you view Virgin Media cable broadcasts, even with a slot. Indeed, Elgato doesn’t offer the 610 in the UK for that reason.
On the other hand, the EyeTV 410, a DVB-T product, also contains a smartcard slot so it’s possible to access pay TV channels sent via Freeview, such as the TopUp TV selection. The snag is TopUp TV’s shift to its Anytime in 40Y7003 , which downloads overnight the programmes you want to view. EyeTV 410 lacks the software to support this mode, and at this stage it will only support old TopUp TV access cards.

Elgato’s EyeTV 250 Plus: MPEG encoding hardware built in Last but not least, Elgato’s new EyeTV 250 Plus is a digital and anlogue tuner with a difference: it has on-board hardware compression hardware iBook G4 battery. Other analogue tuner products from Elgato and others use software compression, so they’re dependent on the power of the host Mac. That may not worry Mac Pro owners, but it’ll be good news for folk with iMacs, MacBooks and older machines.

The New hair battery technology

Researchers at the Universties of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku have discovered a new form of laptop battery. Charged by the application of a very strong magnetic field, the Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) contains a set of nano-magnets - zones some 5 nanometers across in a zinc-gallium-arsenic-mangnesium matrix - which absorb energy and then release it over time. Although the effect had been predicted, the size and duration of the result was not “We had anticipated the effect, but the device produced a voltage over a hundred times too big and for tens of minutes Apple A1148 , rather than for milliseconds as we had expected,” said one of the researchers. “That this was counterintuitive is what lead to our theoretical understanding of what was really going on.”

The MJT is the top part of the illustration, and is roughly the same diameter as a human hair compare to Toshiba laptop battery. Beneath that is a magnified image of the central part of the device: the white spots are atoms, and the circles contain the nano-magnets that store the power. Picture: Phan Nam Hai/University of Miami

I’ve yet to dig out the paper in Nature to find out how far this is from being useful as a power source - as the current device is a few hundred micrometers across with IBM laptop battery, it’s not going to be storing megawatts. But it’s the sort of thing that could be created in vast arrays, like any semiconductor device, and if they’re getting to the bottom of the underlying physics then the same effect could be used in many different configurations of Thinkpad Z60T battery. What may be much more interesting than just power storage is the fact, mentioned almost in passing in the press release, that the current delivered by the MTJ is spin-polarised; the electrons are predominately spinning in one direction.

That’s hot news for spintronics, which we’ve covered previously and which, together with graphene, has the most exciting potential for fundamentally new computational devices. Spin logic could work much faster at much lower power than even today’s finest electronics Dell laptop battery, because it doesn’t rely on currents flowing and the consequent unavoidable loss.

And, as the researchers say, if this discovery leads to new insights into basic magnetic theory, there are almost no limits to how profoundly it could affect modern life with these Thinkpad R40 battery . Which is a bit over the top - just not that much.

9Cell 73Wh Dell inspiron 1525 battery review

Always on the go? No more worries about running out of battery power! You can power your laptop with this 9-Cell Primary laptop Battery from Laptops-battery.co.uk. This Inspiron 1525 battery lets you work seamlessly when you are on the move for business trips or vacations. It provides uninterrupted reliable performance you need to get the most out of your system. This product has been tested and validated on Dell systems. It is supported by Dell Technical Support when used with a Dell system.

This product comes with 1 year limited warranty.

Highlights :
* 9-Cell lets you work seamlessly while on the move
* Offers reliable power for dependable performance

Manufacturer Part# : RU586
Dell Part# : 312-0626

Tech Specs :
battery type : Li-ion 9 Cells
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fit models: Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery, Dell inspiron 1526 battery

Customer Rating :

I was really disappointed in the 6-cell battery pack that came with my Inspiron 1525. It didn’t have good life even when it was new, and after less than a year, I could not depend on it lasting as long as a half-hour! So when it came to a choice between the same battery at $135 or the 9-cell version at ONLY $20 MORE, it was obvious. Now I get about 2 hours of endurance (Much better, but still not the 4 hours that everybody (not just Dell) claims. I just hope it lasts longer than a year.

When I first purchased my Inspiron 1526 battery and 9 cell battery, it would hold up to 9+ hours without being hooked up to the adapter. But 13 months after purchase, it just died over night, no warning. The battery reads “plugged in, not charging” - Great! So while it works, it’s great; but don’t expect that to last very long. With such terrible longevity, I can’t help but feel this product is over priced.

This laptop battery was just what I needed. On Power Saver, it gives me up to 7-8 hours of work time without needing a charge!
The only problem I had was it took Dell what seemed like forever to get it to me. I was wondering if they had to build the battery like they do the PC’s!

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10 **Better** cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC

In response to a submission on digg.com entitled “10 cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC”, user gaqua posted a “better” list in the comments that I found funny enough to want to give it its own post on my meaningless blog.

Here’s a better list.

1 - Clean up your shit, dad. I’m tired of coming over and finding a new toolbar on IE or Firefox every time. I’m tired of thirty icons in the systray, half of which have some bizarre relevance to programs that are no longer installed. Go to add/remove programs, and remove anything you don’t use in your Apple Powerbook G4 battery.

2 - Defrag that shit. 74% fragmented. SERIOUSLY? How is that even possible? I’m scheduling this for every Wednesday night at 10pm dad. I know it’s going to freak you out when it starts doing this all on its own but just leave it alone and let it do its magic.

3 - 512MB of RAM? Do you know how cheap RAM of VGP-BPS2C is? PC2700 DDR1? Oh my God…I think I might throw up. For $50 I can get you to 2GB of RAM. $50.

4 - I’m installing Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy - your system has over 200 known spyware problems. I’m fixing them. I’m making this Inspiron 6000 Battery bulletproof. Don’t fuck with it anymore. I’m installing AVG anti-virus. It’s going to ask you to update it - UPDATE IT WHEN IT ASKS.

5 - Holy shit I can’t believe this - you’re running XP without even SP1 installed. I’m installing SP3 for D5318 Sony NP-BG1, Dad. It’s a lot more secure. Jesus christ this is like the dark ages of computing.

6 - Oh fucking shit - 3 hours to download? What the fuck - you’re still on that 512k DSL? Mom is paying for Cable! She’s paying for Cable internet, Dad. I’m going to unplug this wire from the DSL modem and plug it into the cable modem of A1175 A1079. Yeah. No it’s very easy. And I’m calling AT&T and canceling DSL. There, I just saved you $50 a month. And yeah, the internet is faster.

7 - Oh look, you have a cutesy animated desktop background. Yeah, your celeron 1.6 GHz probably doesn’t like that, especially with the 16MB integrated graphics. I’m going to turn that off. I know, I know. But it’s best for everyone.

HOLY SHIT YOUR COMPUTER IS FASTER NOW DAD. Please, tell everyone in the family that you “don’t know what he did but the computer is so much better, you should call him and have him come take a look, I’m sure he’d be happy to Latitude D600 battery!”

There’s nothing I love more than that, dad. I love fixing Uncle Butch’s disgusting laptop with the inexplicably stained keys and I love playing around with the disgusting beige eMachine that Aunt Patsy uses to send all those cool inspirational email forwards with pictures of kittens or penguins or koalas or pandas.

No, I understand. As the oldest and most computer knowledgeable of Latitude D620 battery , it’s my responsibility. Just like Uncle Mason would help us all out if we got into legal trouble right? Well, if he weren’t disbarred for fraud, I mean.