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Dropzone
Dropzone is really nice.
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.
12:04 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: elgato, eyetv, tubo264, faulty, software, bugTypinator vs TextExpander
Quick fight out between two applications that do essentially the same thing, which is expand text snippets to become something else:
Round 1 – Does it do what it’s supposed to do?
I bought TextExpander to do one thing, correct my typos. I have a chronic habit of typing semicolons where there should be apostrophes. Words like “don;t” and “can;t”. I set this up in TextExpander, set off writing an email and it failed to catch a single one of my typos. I tried several other triggers all of which worked, but the very task I’d bought it for it failed dismally. I emailed support at the inappropriately named Smile on my Mac and never heard back from them. Result: no
Typinator came free with a MacHeist promotion and has a predefined bundle of common typos which included most of my semicolon related ones. I enabled this bundle and can now blissfully hammer my keyboard with my sausage fingers safe in the knowledge that my typos get caught. Result: yes
Verdict: Typinator wins with a knockout in the opening seconds of round 1. TextExpander is left bleeding on the floor wondering what could have been and I want my money back for the lack of fight it showed.
05:30 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: osx, software, os x, mac, typing, expander, text, typinator, textexpander