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Todd Plants

Member since: Jun 7th, 2005

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TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day 13: an iPhone (TUAW.com)

Aug 29th 2007 9:21AM entering!

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Ten: iPod nano (TUAW.com)

Aug 24th 2007 10:27AM Green for me, please!

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Nine: iPod Shuffle (TUAW.com)

Aug 23rd 2007 9:43AM Entering.

iPhone gallery shows off Dock, iPhone headphones (TUAW.com)

Jun 20th 2007 11:16AM Steve showed both of these at MWSF.

Information Week's iPhone Questions (TUAW.com)

May 21st 2007 2:57PM Question #8: Will it blend?

TUAW Spring Shuffle Giveaway Day Three: Blue (TUAW.com)

May 16th 2007 11:20AM Blue me.

TUAW Spring Shuffle Giveaway Day One: Gray (TUAW.com)

May 14th 2007 1:35AM Me too!

MLB.TV Mosaic: baseball nirvana (TUAW.com)

Apr 2nd 2007 10:19AM Sorry, I think there was a typo in your post.

I think you meant to say "Go (Defending American League Champion Detroit) Tigers!"

I'll just assume that's what you meant. No need to issue a retraction / correction. :)

Apple TV review, and geek details (TUAW.com)

Mar 23rd 2007 12:19PM re: itunes vs. apple tv playback

I've actually been looking into this recently, as I have a bunch of xvid I'd love to play with Apple TV.

The confusion is caused by the fact that itunes (and presumably apple tv) actually hooks into quicktime to play your movies.

If, on your imac, you have the xvid codecs installed for quicktime, itunes can play the movies. (There's a few tweaks you have to make, but they're quick and easy.)

Since you can't (yet) install additional codecs on Apple TV, you can't play additional formats.

In other words, your iMac and your Apple TV each use different versions of (presumably) Quicktime to play the actual movies. On your iMac, it's extensible. On Apple TV, it's not.

Democracy Player 0.9.5 now available (TUAW.com)

Feb 14th 2007 6:00PM Why did the default install set the language as German? Any ideas?