Oct 31, 2005
Mac Rumors: Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released
Now available via Software Update:
The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning media
- .Mac sync services
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984
What a boring Halloween! It rained hard here in Houston this afternoon, and a bit this evening, so very few Trick-or-Treaters were out in our neighborhood. We had a total of 5 groups come by bringing the total to 19 kids. There is plenty of extra candy for us to enjoy!
Drew and I had planned to spend the evening playing our favorite game- World of Warcraft. We’re now into hour 7 of downtime and there seems no hope of the servers coming up this hour either. According to the Blizzard forums, it seems every realm is down, so it has been a boring night for the other nerds like us who had planned to play all night.
Ho hum. :(
Oct 27, 2005
iTunes On Treo 600 and 650
The latest version of Mass Storage Synchronizer — the add-on from Tea Vui Huang that adapts iTunes for Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung phones — is now compatible with Palm One’s Treo 600 and 650 smartphones. You’ll need RealPlayer for Palm or Pocket Tunes to hear the music. It will be interesting to see how the 650 handles music storage given its non-volatile memory problems.
Mass Storage Synchronizer – Product Page
Oct 24, 2005
From Mac OS X Hints- Use Quicktime Player to Export Movies to iTunes Video by Ari Bader-Natal
Apple’s tutorial Creating Video for iPod requires Quicktime 7 Pro, but the free Quicktime Player is equally capable.
I’ve posted both an AppleScript (Export front movie to iTunes.scpt) and an automator workflow (Export selected movies to iTunes.workflow) to get you started.
The Automator workflow enables you right-click on movie files in the Finder to do this, and the AppleScript lets you export the frontmost movie via the scripts menu. One interesting note is that these both work for any media files that Quicktime Player can open.
Oct 21, 2005
Popcasts (BETA) >> About Popcasts
Popcasts is an aggregator of ‘most popular podcasts’ (e.g. top 10 podcast).
It lets you see at a glance, on just one page, what is popular in dozens of different podcast directories, without you having to constantly check the individual directories for the latest ranking results.
It scans and synchronises with pre-registered podcast directories or ranking sites every hour and generates RSS feeds for each top 10 podcast. The sites registered to Popcasts include: Apple iTunes Podcasting, Odeo, Podnova, podfeed, iPodderX, PodcastPickle, Podcasting NEWS and Podcast Alley.
Oct 20, 2005
VideoLAN – News
10 million downloads for VLC 0.8.2 (2005-10-1111 October 2005) VLC 0.8.2 has been downloaded ten million times since its release, on June 26th! The whole VideoLAN team is very happy of this overwhelming result. We would like to thank all of our users, sponsors and partners, who made this result possible.
If you’re not using VLC on your computer to play your videos and other media, you are really missing out! VLC runs on all 3 major platforms- Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it is a FREE program. It supports a wide range of media formats without needing to download additional codecs; even if you don’t know what codec a media file uses, chances are the VLC will be able to play it for you without the need to search the web for the right one. Besides that, what I like about VLC are its streaming capabilities. I often use it to watch a recorded TV show that is stored on our “franken”-box while sitting here at my desk. It saves me the time of trying to copy it over to this computer, and 99.5% of the time the streaming is never interrupted or “jumpy.”
I can’t say enough good things about this free program, only that it is one of the first programs that gets installed if I re-install my OS. Kudos to the VLC team and way to go on 10 million downloads sine June!
Oct 12, 2005
IGN: New 007 Reportedly Chosen
New 007 Reportedly Chosen
British tabloid names Bond, James Bond.
by Stax
October 11, 2005 – British tabloid The Daily Mail, the first outlet to report that Pierce Brosnan would not return as 007 for the next installment, now claims that the search for the new James Bond is over and that oft-rumored contender Daniel Craig (Layer Cake) will star in Casino Royale.
“In the end a shortlist of two emerged – Craig and newcomer Henry Cavill. The pair were auditioned again and tried on tuxedos to see how they would look in the quintessential Bond clothing,” the Mail reports. “Craig, 37, whose choice will be confirmed by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson later this week, will be the sixth Bond, but the first blond.”
Debian Tutorials and How-Tos courtesy of Grimoire
Incredible amount of tutorials and how-tos for the GNU/Linux distribution Debian.
Debian is my personal favorite, so it’s always nice when sites are discovered with help all in one place. This is definitely a great stop for new Debian users.
Oct 6, 2005
I finished the re-design of my portfolio today. I added the majority of projects that I have completed in the last few months and changed the layout of the portfolio page itself. You can access it from the menu bar above or at this link.
Oct 1, 2005
Best Operating System
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Best Media Player
Apple iTunes
2nd Best Small PC
Apple Mac mini
Best Large-Capacity MP3 Player
Apple iPod Photo
Best Music Download
Apple iTunes Music Store
Hello! My name is Katie, I'm 27 and from Houston, TX. I am a hardworking and passionate freelance web designer with a degree in eBusiness Web Development who creates clean and professional looking websites of the highest quality. I specialize in standards-based XHTML and CSS web development. The sites I develop are built to be search engine friendly!