1 Open the computer's web browser and navigate to the 'Apple Developer: Registration' website (see Resources). Follow the on-screen instructions and fill in the appropriate information to register for the Apple Developer program. Once you are registered, sign in to your Apple Developer account. Click the 'Resources' tab at the top of the page, followed by the 'Developer Downloads' link. On the 'Developer Downloads' page, click the 'FireWire' link located under the 'Downloads' subheading on the right side of the page. How to kill commercials on your Mac DVR. Sure, they help pay for your favorite TV shows, but they also eat up time and, in a Mac DVR app, hard drive space. Commercials must die. And you can destroy them. If you have plenty of hard drive space, watch shows soon after you record them, and delete them promptly afterward, just click the 30. ![]() There's never been a better time to trade your cable company's rented DVR for your own Mac-based solution. A once-sparse market for Mac DVR apps now overflows with increasingly powerful and user-friendly choices for recording your favorite TV shows, via antenna or cable. We've sifted through the growing pile of Mac DVR solutions to compare the two top contenders: veteran EyeTV and relative newcomer Plex. EyeTV has power and finesse. Plex has speed and style. ![]() But only one of them is your best bet for squirreling away hours of The Walking Dead. A quick word about the also-rans The other players in the Mac DVR arena have their merits, but they all fall short in key ways. It's important to note that no Mac DVR apps, including EyeTV, Plex, or any of the following rivals, can currently display or record encrypted premium cable channels such as HBO, Showtime, or Starz, even if you're a subscriber. The cable industry demands hefty fees for the keys to unlock those codes, and none of the current Mac apps has yet been willing or able to shell out that much cash. Records video on your Mac, but will only stream it to an AppleTV, iOS devices, or a web interface. It also offers built-in, non-destructive commercial skipping, a feature with which Plex and EyeTV both struggle. At $8 a month, it's one of the most expensive long-term options for Mac DVR service. SiliconDust, makers of the popular HDHomeRun TV tuners, have built into their standard TV app. At $35 a year, HDHomeRun offers one of the cheapest Mac DVR options, and unlike Plex, it can play and pause live TV from your Mac. SiliconDust says it also hopes to enable premium channels like HBO. But HDHomeRun's interface is just so-so, and it lacks Plex's other media-aggregating abilities and EyeTV's fine-tuned recording skills. If you're particularly tech-savvy — or just have a high threshhold for aggravation — you can turn to, a Linux-spawned free DVR app. TV listings cost $25 a year through SchedulesDirect. I endured MythTV's lengthy, byzantine, frustrating installation process only to find its interface subpar at best, and I wouldn't recommend it. Meet the contenders EyeTV's been around for more than a decade, first from Elgato and now from Geniatech. Set up email signature in yahoo.
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