I’ve been having a bit of trouble adding some movies to my iTunes library this evening - in that I’d have to convert a movie to a .mov file in order to import it at all.

A few google searches away and I’d found the answer to all my problems. If you have the Apple development tools installed (and are obviously on a Mac), you can simply change the file meta-data of the movies via the terminal in order to allow you to import them. It’s very simple to do:
SetFile -t "MooV" movie.avi

Via: AVI to iTunes on MacRumors Forums

I did, however, have to change the iTunes settings so that it didn’t take it’s own copy of the files when importing them. I have a separate Movies folder for a reason thank-you-very-much iTunes.
- Chris

As per my previous post, I’m getting a new machine. This is due however, to some unfortunate news: my PowerBook is dead!

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I’ve recently ordered a new Mac, a Mac Pro to be precise. It is currently en route to my gleeful embrace from Apple.
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On my way out to head to University this morning, I saw something that I thought looked funny. I was then telling Matt about it and he was saying I should have taken a photo of it.

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