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Apple – Extending an wireless network

casper — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:52:04 +0000

One of the thing when one buy a wireless only computer like an Apple MacBook Air (USB 100mb/s sucks), is that the next thing one start looking at is to get 802.11n, which currently is the fastest option for wireless. There are many options out there, some of them good, some less. I decided to [...]

OSX Lion Preview slow to start

casper — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:10:22 +0000

If you as me is running OSX Lion, and find that Preview is incredible slow to start, and for some reason it also load all the previous seen files, well then welcome to the new “Resume” feature which Apple have introduced.

I like it for some programs, but with Preview it slowed it down so [...]

AirTunes – forked-daapd and Airport Express

casper — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:45:26 +0000

One small issue one can run into after installing forked-daapd is that using the iPhone/iPad remote one cannot play any songs.

Looking in /var/opt/forked-daapd.log one will see something:

[2011-04-14 11:24:59] laudio: Could not open playback device: No such file or directory
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] player: Could not open local audio
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] dacp: [...]

Apple AppStore & iTunes Ping

casper — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:57:04 +0000

I really think it’s great that Apple develop all these cool things to make the experience of using their software an really nice and relaxed experience.

But, as there is always a but in there, they absolutely silly and annoying way they chose which language one can use would be something someone should be @$!@#$!@$%@#$% [...]

AppleTV version 2

casper — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:12:57 +0000

According to Mr. Jobs people want:

Hollywood movies & TV Shows Everything in HD Lower prices for content Don’t want a computer Don’t want to manage storage Don’t want syncing Silent,cool & small

I am sorry, I could not care for most of these things, I want to be able to stream content from a [...]

The missing USBOverDrive

casper — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:32:03 +0000

I some times feel like a fool, why would one wonder, well I tend to buy the software I use, even the more expensive parts.

Now there is a wast amount of good freeware around, but not all of it always working (for example Adium seams to crash 2 – 3 times a day, [...]

MacHeist

casper — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:33 +0000

One of the nice things about MacHeist is that you pay a small amount of money and you get a fair select of Software.

The last bundle (as they call it) included â€˜MacJournalâ€™ which Iâ€™m using to write this – I always like offline tools to online tools (not depending on an internet connection).

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Apple Wireless Keyboard

casper — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:04:11 +0000

So I have this MacMini as a mediacenter PC, which is working and I don’t really have any problems with it, except that once in a while I want to be able to surf the web, or write an email without having to get out of the sofa.

For years I’ve used US keyboards, and [...]

Apple OSX – Wake on Lan

casper — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:34 +0000

So I “upgraded” my AppleTV (which have served me well for 2 years) to a new MacMini (kind of overkill, but hey one have to have fun).

After mocking around with for the whole weekend it is now working as it should, due to XBMC, and some scripts which stops iTunes from starting.

But [...]

(followup III) Leopard Annoyances – Apache/PHP

casper — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:47:50 +0000

Back in February 2008 I wrote about my unhappyness about Apples inability to build a usefull PHP for Leopard (OSX 10.5), which forced more or less everyone who would be using PHP on Leopard to use a 3rd party build. And as far as I remember this was also the case with Tiger.

Now [...]