Archive for March, 2008

OS X Printing

Friday, March 7th, 2008

One thing that invariably sucks royally on the Mac is printing. I think the situation is very similar on Linux. Drivers just aren’t made for other platforms. I haven’t taken the time recently to understand this but it bites me regularly. Basically I go through the process of trying to get a printer working on [...]

OS X VOB to DV conversion

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Needed to rip DVD video files to edit in iMovie. First you need to pull the VOB files off the DVD using software like Mac The Ripper if it’s encoded. If not you can just drag the VOB files to your system. Then I needed to convert the VOB files with the least compression and [...]