I bought a usb hub the other day from best buy and unfortunately it was defective. Not only did the hub not work, but it fried my usb mouse and the usb ports on my powerbook.

I'm currently having the powerbook repaired, but and I took the hub back to best buy for a refund. Unfortunately I'll be without "my precious" for about a week.

I finally figured out a way to change my browsers' proxy settings with automator. The solution should work on safari and firefox. I also figured out how to change the default printer.

I never got around to publishing what I had of the ffmpeg automator action. I was still working on the list of formats before I sent my powerbook in for repairs.

There's been 400 downloads of the QTExportAction. The ffmpeg version is around the corner. I got the conversion to flv working. Leave a comment with the type of video conversions you'd like to do on your mac, so I can include them.

I added a option called 'Return' to the QTExportAction which allows you to choose what gets returned as a result of the action. The original version always returned the input, which was useful if you wanted to convert a file into multiple formats. The new version returns either the new version or the original. Now you can add some other post processing steps, like uploading the movies.

There's a new release of my QuickTimeExport Automator Action available. I fixed a minor issue with an applescript timeout message.

You can get it here

There's been over 280 downloads so far of this action.

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