EyeTV gets Leopard update
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 31, 2007 at 1:54pm
For all EyeTV users who have installed the Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), Elgato’s free EyeTV 2.5.1 update adds support for the following key new Leopard technologies: Quick Look, iChat, and Spaces.
Finder windows in Leopard offer a fourth display view option, Cover Flow, analogous to the feature in iTunes. With Cover Flow a user can navigate and browse through all items in a folder. Television shows recorded with EyeTV, which are stored in the “EyeTV Archive” folder on the Mac hard drive, are now browseable using Cover Flow.
The new Quick Look functionality in Leopard enables users to view and browse through a file’s contents in the Finder, even at full screen, with one click of the mouse in the Cover Flow window. EyeTV 2.5.1 supports Quick Look, and EyeTV recordings can be started and played back from the Finder.
iChat in Leopard features screen sharing. Participants in a chat session can simultaneously view presentations, videos, and other files. With EyeTV 2.5.1, EyeTV recordings are integrated into video chats, featuring playback controls and the possibility to add one’s own audio commentary (this requires configuring a preference in EyeTV to automatically prepare new recordings for Wi-Fi Access).
In Leopard, software applications that are dedicated to certain tasks can be grouped into their own Space. In EyeTV 2.5.1, playback windows for live television and recordings can be set to float across all defined Spaces, so that they are visible even when switching between environments.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
