For whatever reason there is certain a level of incompatibility between various .zip (archive) file formats among various operating systems today. It’s certainly not that you won’t be able to access any file type on any given system, as there are many tools to do so, mostly it’s a question of how many hoops you [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Mac’
September 14, 2009
iPod Touch has 802.11n! But it’s not enabled! Zing!
I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave before doing a little bouldering in Central Park. Chris sent the Polish Traverse and made it look effortless. At least someone is in shape. So, I stopped by Apple and asked what they knew about the 802.11n chipset on the latest model iPod Touch. Nothing. They [...]
September 10, 2009
Darwine you are a fine Wine.
For whatever reason I’d never played around with application compatibility layer software like Wine under OS X. Parallels and VMware are quite overkill for most people’s purposes. Usually the user may need to run one application in the guest OS and setting up an entire VM and giving 10GB or whatever over to that [...]
July 2, 2009
WWDC no 802.11n in on the 3G S iPhone!? Drat!
So, with the new iPhone 3.x OS you will not be purchasing an 802.11N enabled wireless chipset. Apparently the new 3G S model does support 4G HSDPA but not 5 GHz 802.11N wireless with the new lower powered Broadcom BCM4325. Apparently the 3G S model is a bit snappier. When is the 802.11n iPod [...]
February 23, 2009
It goes – Ethernet > Airtunes > SPDIF > DAC
Got the two Airport Express Base Stations working on the network with Airtunes & iTunes. I bought an older 802.11b/g one for wired usage and an 802.11n one for wireless audio in the kitchen. I had to do hard resets on both of them before they’d show up on the Airport Utility. I turned off [...]
February 17, 2009
Firefly Transcodes FLAC > .WAV for iTunes & Airtunes
So I bit the bullet and ordered a couple of Airport Express base stations so that I can finally listen to music over both ethernet and 802.11n. A small miracle, the old Dell P3 is able to transcode the FLAC on a USB hard disk drive attached to the Time Capsule (a Samba share via [...]
January 26, 2009
Still Not Ice Climbing – but lets build a MythTV!
Sadly my Saturdays and Sundays have not been filled with ice climbing trips to hidden frozen waterfalls of the Northeast. My hand feels better despite having a small gash where it hit the edge of the BMW car door. I imagine I’ll be able to go back to the MPHC climbing gym soon.
I miss [...]
November 18, 2008
Hump Wiggles – I got the FireGL V5200 Softmod to work!
Again, don’t just read this blog because you have a MacBook Pro Core Duo and you want to make it act like a FireGL V5200, read it because you care. Seriously, I got the ATI Moiblity X1600 to softmod into the FireGL Mobility V5200 following a myriad of somewhat unintelligible instructions from the internet (I [...]
