Movies purchased from the iTunes Store look great in your library, complete with metadata and artwork. But when you add your own ripped movies to iTunes, all you get is a title and thumbnail. Here’s how to give your personally ripped movies the same metadata as their iTunes Store counterparts, making your library better looking and easier to navigate.
Review: Sonnet Echo 15+ Thunderbolt 2 Docking Station
The Sonnet Echo 15+ Thunderbolt Dock is unlike anything else on the market. But are unique features such as an integrated Blu-ray drive and support for up to two internal drives enough to justify its delayed launch? Read on to see if this feature-packed but expensive Thunderbolt 2 docking station makes sense in an emerging Thunderbolt 3 world.
FastMac Announces External Optical Drive Perfect for the New Mac Pro
Apple’s radically redesigned Mac Pro will be heading to the market later this year but, like most of Apple’s other Macs, the new version ditches the optical drive. A missing optical drive can be easily justified for ultra-portable computers like the MacBook Air, but professionals who are interested in, and will be able to afford, the new Mac Pro may still need the capability to read and burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Any one of a number of external…
New Internal Drive from MCE Brings Blu-ray to iMac & Mac mini
Although an original member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, Apple has never embraced the format, calling it a “bag of hurt” and preferring to guide customers towards its own “high definition” content via the iTunes Store. Mac owners could still use Blu-ray optical drives, although there was no official support in OS X for the commercial Blu-ray video format. Still, determined fans of high quality, and high capacity, optical media resigned themselves to attaching external Blu-ray drives to their iMacs…
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The Next Xbox: What to Expect
Following Microsoft’s confirmation that the next Xbox will be unveiled on May 21, Redmond-watcher Paul Thurrott revealed Thursday what users can expect from the next console, codenamed “Durango.” Windows 8 Core The next Xbox will be based on Windows 8, which is not surprising considering Microsoft’s desire to unify its platforms with a common operating system. Many are hopeful that sharing a common underlying OS means that developers will have an easy way to port their Metro-style apps to the…