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Review: Rivet

As a Mac-user in a household of only Apple products, owning an Xbox can sometimes be challenging. After seeing the amazing file-sharing capabilities of TVersity, I was crushed to discover that there was no equivalent for mac, until I stumbled onto the brilliant program called Rivet. Developed by the Little App Factory, Rivet is a file-sharing application that enables wireless file-sharing of music, movies, and photos between Macs to Xbox-360 or PS3.

The hot: Rivet streams files from your iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Initially this made me suspect that not all file formats (.avi, etc) would be compatible, as we all know that iTunes doesn’t handle them. However, I discovered that the video files Rivet does support are MPEG-4, H.264, DivX (including .avi) and WMV – a grouping that was annoyingly hard to come by when trying to find a file-sharing application for Mac.

Rivet was extremely easy to set up and as someone who does not appreciate having to fiddle around with installing, restarting, synching, I was very pleased. You simply select your preferences as to which folders you want to share with your console, and your music is shared directly from iTunes.


The meh: Unfortunately, Rivet is not free. It does have a free demo and if you are pleased with that, the full program is only $19.95. That isn’t really all that much for what you get.

The cold: The only files that I have found that I cannot open are music files that I’ve purchased from iTunes, but what’s part and parcel with DRM, I suspect. Nonetheless it’s still annoying.

Summary: Seeing as I am used to feeling hard-done-by when I can’t find any good, easy to access, and simple to use programs for Mac, Rivet is a breath of fresh air. If you have a Mac and an Xbox360 or PS3 (I have an Xbox360) you should definitely at the very least try the demo.

I’d give the application a solid On Fire! rating.

System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.6 Intel

Demo Available: http://thelittleappfactory.com/rivet/


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