Filed under: Utilities, Video, Macintosh
HandBrake Lite: Two-click DVD-to-iPod ripping
by Jordan Running Dec 28th 2005
Speaking of ripping DVDs, Tyler Loch, creator of iPod video converter iSquint, has released a Mac utility called HandBrake Lite which he describes as "a horribly-mangled abomination of HandBrake, jettisoning its non-crucial features with the one-track goal of creating iPod-sized movies from DVDs." The original HandBrake was a general-purpose open source DVD-to-MPEG4 converter, but Loch touts HandBrake Lite as having "less stuff to read, and fewer confusing words" and claims it will rip a DVD to an iPod-friendly format in only two clicks. In its very short FAQ Loch writes, "HandBrake Lite is done. I can't add any features because I don't know how to write Obj-C code; only blind mangling of existing code. It's a miracle this even works at all." But if it works, it works, right?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
