Can you guess what technology such enthusiasts tend to use for their paranormal work? Yes, it’s the good ol’ Macintosh. Over at Paranormal Daily News, there’s an article on why the Mac is the superior platform when it comes to working with a high quantity of footage looking for those few ghostly seconds to share with the world. According to the article, it’s really nothing more than a MacBook and the iLife suite. Well, let’s face it; it’s all in there, really.

Popcorn 4 is an excellent piece of Mac software; it converts video into any number of useful formats and automates the process to make it simple and painless. Able to handle most popular video formats, it can export them to other formats, turn just about any video into a playable DVD, or convert it for use on an iPhone, game system, or YouTube. It’s great to see a program that takes the guesswork out of video conversion.

Here’s another reason to just stay home today. Elgato’s is offering the lowest price of the year on their award-winning hybrid TV tuner stick, the EyeTV Hybrid. Via Elgato’s website only, the EyeTV Hybrid is being sold for only $99.95 (regular price $149.95) from today through Sunday night, or while supplies last.

Here’s a wonderful bit of nostalgia: Steve Jobs (wearing a tux!) introducing the original Mac in 1984. Boasting a 68000 processor that “eats 8088s for breakfast” and two serial ports, the original Mac also had a 3-1/4″ disc drive, all for the low, low price of $2,495.

What’s really fun is hearing Steve boast about the graphics of the 9″ screen, which really was revolutionary for the time not only for the sharpness, but also for the WYSIWYG interface. Those of you who grew up with the GUI interface may not realize that what you saw on your screen back then was often very different from what came out in your printer. If you were word processing, for example, bold text might be indicated on the screen by being in a different color than the rest of the text, and italics would be highlighted.

But as we get ready for a new generation of laptops, one of which will probably have more processing power than 100 original Macs combined, let’s sit back and drink in what used to be the most cutting edge computer that (a lot of) money could buy.

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A number of years back (or even more recently), you might have heard of XBMC (XBox Media Center). XBMC was a way for XBox owners to mod their units into a fully capable media center. That project has continued to progress, and has moved on since its XBox roots. While XBMC is still available, there is an interesting offshoot based on it’s code called Boxee and it’s making its way to a Mac near you soon.

Why soon? Well, that’s because Boxee is still in Alpha, so there are still some wrinkles to iron out here. But that’s not to say it’s not already shaping up to be an awesome application. More on the program, and how you can participate in the alpha testing, after the break.