Until recently, my iTunes media has been trapped on my PC without any easy path to my television. Apple offers some great solutions, using an AppleTV or connecting a Mac Mini to my big screen would provide a great viewing experience. However, we already have a Tivo and rely on this for just about everything – so it seems like this would be a good place to start.
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While Apple provides an excellent general purpose DVD tool with iDVD, once you find yourself editing 1 hour videos it will quickly become problematic to squeeze those onto a single disc. This is a common problem with shows that we have recorded on our TiVo and would like to archive on a disc to either watch on the road or simply save for a future date. There are some professional tools capable of assisting with this task, but if it’s acceptable that your videos lose some fidelity then SmallDVD may be all you need.
My first exposure to OpenOffice was a demo from a Sun representative where he was extolling the virtues of Sun’s StarOffice while running his actual presentation from another product (Microsoft PowerPoint). It clearly wasn’t ready for general consumption at that point, but it quickly improved and became the predominant office platform outside of Microsoft Office.