Have you read any subtitles lately?

By arfore | Published: May 23, 2010
Lately I have been taken with watching foreign films.  Some of them are ones I have seen before, but most of them have been new ones to my collection. Unfortunately many foreign films are not available in Region 1 (or NTSC) format.  If you are lucky enough to know how to rip a DVD and [...]
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Tools for adding FLAC and SHN files to your iTunes Library on OS X

By arfore | Published: March 7, 2010
As some visitors to arfore.com will have noticed I feature a list of recent etree.org downloads on my Listening page.  The files from etree.org are live shows recorded by dedicated fans and concert goers.  Many, if not most, of these recordings are posted in one of two lossless file formats: SHN and FLAC. Both of [...]
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Why the extra sugar?

By arfore | Published: March 7, 2010
As many of my friends are aware I am a big fan of honey.  As the son of a second-generation beekeeper, I grew up eating honey in many varieties.  I learned early on that all-natural peanut butter mixed with honey was a great combination, and I have eaten it that way ever since. I use [...]
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Life without cable – Part 2

By arfore | Published: January 21, 2010
In my previous post in this series, I laid out my reasons for dropping my monthly cable subscription and my initial choice of the AppleTV as the instrument for maintaining a reasonable method for my viewing entertainment. One of the main reasons behind the choice of the AppleTV was the fact that it supported 5.1 [...]
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Life without cable – Part 1

By arfore | Published: January 20, 2010
A little over a year ago I joined a growing group of people that are eschewing the cable monopoly for their viewing entertainment. After many years of being a faithful, if sometimes unwilling, cable subscriber, I realized that there was no financial sense to subscribe to a channel lineup consisting of roughly 80 stations simply [...]
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