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Oh yes… its about time someone did this. After a bit of searching I found this site: http://www.blackdog.ie/tv/

Follow the instructions on the site, its fairly straight forward. I got it working (watched some Home and Away or RTE1) following the instructions on the site. Took a few re-tries though, think the server being used is a little dodgy or doesn’t respond all the time so it is still a little flakey. It eventually responded to me looking for a username and password, I just hit return and it started the stream. Hopefully it will work when it matters watching Ireland or Munster rugby games.

One of my friends has asked to load up his iPod with movies. So with a burgeoning collection of avi’s I began searching for a good free application to convert avi’s to mp4 on a Mac. I found a nice piece of kit called iSquint which is now unfortunately stopped active development but the last version released works a treat for me. It even gives you the option to add encoded movies to iTunes after it has finished with them. Batch processing is handy although you can’t set the output folder for each individual file, only the output for the entire batch which is a bit annoying. Get iSquint here

Finally I’ve been busy downloading a lot of stuff recently and was eager to keep an eye on the status of my downloads during the day. There are plenty of remote desktop tools but I’ve recently started using LogMeIn and I’m very happy with it. Its free and you can have multiple clients that you can access from anywhere remotely from a website. The interface is nice and simple and it seems reasonably fast so thumbs up from me on that.

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