Archive for February, 2009

aTV Flash AppleTV hack to add EyeTV tuner support

Friday, February 27th, 2009

aTV Flash from Fire Core is a US$49.95 piece of software which when loaded onto a (compatible) USB flash drive key adds lots of features to your AppleTV such as

  • More video formats (including DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, RMVB, DVD and some MKV)
  • Enables internet apps like Safari, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SMB and streaming from NAS devices
  • Enables external USB hard drives
  • Enables USB keyboard support
  • Allows installation of other Mac OS X applications (like EyeTV for example)

iPhone game developer job in San Diego

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Heynow Software in San Diego U.S.A. are looking for an iPhone Game Developer. Requirements include: “Thinks “Team America: World Police” is funny
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17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro now shipping in 5-7 days

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

As of last Friday apparently the Australian Apple Store is now listing the 17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro as shipping within 5-7 days.

A reminder also that students, teachers and educational professionals are also able to get $176 rebate if they purchase an iPod with an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.

Happy Birthday Steve!

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs. May you have many more!

iPhoto ‘09 hints at iPhone, iPod Touch geotracking capability?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

TidBITs reports on some unused dialogue boxes in iPhoto ‘09 that seem to indicate future iPhone (and even iPod Touch) revisions might enable GPS tracking to keep a log of your route information. The dialogues include the text

Activate the location application on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Once selected, any available location information will be transferred to your iPhoto library and associated with the photos in the selected event(s).

and

Select an iPhone or iPod Touch from your list of named devices. Once selected, the appropriate information will be transferred to your iPhoto library and associated with the photos in the selected event(s).

Do your backups work?

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

A sobering tale from the operator of social bookmarking site ma.gnolia which lost half its users bookmarks through not having a decent backup. Interestingly they were running off 2 Xserves and 4 Mac minis.

  • They had RAID (but of course that doesn’t protect you from data corruption, as both copies get corrupted).
  • They did a FireWire backup (but of course that just backs up your corrupt database).

Hint: mysqldump is your friend.

Video interview on the Ma.gnolia site, with a transcript here.

Meanwhile TidBITs have declared Friday 13th as “Verify your backups day”. And remind us of the Tao of Backup.

Remember, sometimes the cloud blows away.

Jimmy Barnes iTunes Bushfire relief album

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

iTunes Australia has a $3.99 charity Album starring Jimmy Barnes.

31 iPhone Fart apps

Friday, February 13th, 2009

boingboing links to a video demoing 31 iPhone fart applications in 90 seconds.

Apple delays 17 inch MacBook Pro shipment

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

According to MacWorld Apple have delayed shipment of the 17 inch MacBook Pro to mid-February.

iPhoto ‘09

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

It looks like iPhoto ’09’s face recognition is based on code from Omron.

Meanwhile, Fraser Speirs compares iPhoto ’09’s flickr export with his own FlickrExport plugin, and finds iPhoto to be lacking in several areas (at least until iPhoto ‘10, at least).