ZatzNotFunny's blog

I’d like to thank Ben for loaning me his Apple TV at a good time. The folks behind Airfoil, which I’ve never heard of until today, just released an application update that streams any audio from a Mac to Apple TV (or other Macs, Windows PCs, and Airport Expresses, too). In under a minute I easily linked Airfoil to Firefox and the Apple TV to listen to XM Online and Pandora.

Yesterday’s other big news was the beta release of DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist software - a swiss army knife of multimedia conversion, sharing, and syncing. The feature (rightfully) garnering the most attention is the conversion of DRM-ed iTunes into unprotected MP3s behind the scenes for playlist synchronization onto non-iPods. Though, being a video geek my first experiments were with TiVo…