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UPDATE (nov08): When using Mac OSX 10.5.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 this process does NOT work! It does with 10.5-10.5.3 and Ubuntu 8.0x. I’m trying to figure out an update at the moment for the latest version of the OSs.
Completely forgot to post about this but I successfully finished a weekend project recently, believe it was [...]
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Last Friday I finished a week long deliberation and decided in favour of buying a Wii. After playing it for a couple of days I can say that I definitely do not regret it at all.
Using the Wii Remote to control games is sure a lot easier for me than normal controllers. Where I run [...]
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Here’s a little something that I will most likely spend some time with soon. It sure was fun when I was a kit and got my first electronics kit and then my chemistry kit. Now several years later, I discover this thing (I know it’s been out for a while) and am quite intruiged.
With Arduino [...]
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Last weekend I finally took some time to load up a great Linux build, namely Ubuntu (desktop edition), onto a partition on my MBP that I created using BootCamp.
Partitioning
Well, let us say I initiated the partitioning using Bootcamp. Since it prepares a FAT32 partition alongside the HFS partition I had to play around a little with [...]
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Wow, no post since November? Time sure flies. OK, let’s recap then …
# MacBook Air: Wow, want one but I will wait until the first revision. I would want one that at least comes close to what my 1st Gen MBP can do. The amazing aspect is the battery life. My MBP dies after about [...]
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Filed under: APPLE, GADGETS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, iPhone
So last week in the US I finally got my iPhone which I, purely for educational purposes, activated, jailbreaked and unlocked. It did work like a charm. The first time around it took me a little longer, the second time (why, a second time? for fun of course) the whole process including downgrade and [...]
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Blog post will be updated as the event evolves. Stay tuned, ie. reload this page every few minutes please. Newest at the top.
Fin. Now I’m torn of course between the 8GB iPhone and the 16GB iPod Touch. Hmmm. Sites updated and shops back online an hour after the event ended.
Stevenson asks “the very hot” (that’s [...]
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A little application that will keep your motion-sensor equipped Powerbook and MacBook Pro “safe”.It’s like a car alarm for mac and can be controlled using the Apple Remote. The slightest movement and the alarm goes off.This little app is now available for download as a beta.
>> See the video.>> Read all about it.>> Download it.
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Menu Meters: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17713
Growl: http://growl.info/
Adium X (IM Client for all networks except Skype): http://www.adiumx.com/
Transmission (BitTorrent Client):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19378 (Please don’t violate copyrights!)
Taco (HTML Editor): http://www.tacosw.com/
Skype (VoIP Telephony): http://www.skype.com/
Vienna (RSS Reader): Vienna 2.2.2.2212 - MacUpdate
Cyberbuck (FTP/SFTP-Client): http://cyberduck.ch/
VLA (Media Player - allmighty): http://www.videolan.org/
Handbrake (DVD Ripping): http://handbrake.m0k.org/download.php (Please don’t steal movies!)
Senuti (iPod-Ripping): Senuti 0.50.2b6 - MacUpdate (Please don’t steal music!)
Gantt Project (PM Tool): http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/
iEatBrainz [...]
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