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Category Archives: Mac

Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.

iPlod…

by Rob Friesel

Something about 1,650 Duke freshmen with iPods frightens me. As if these little bastards weren’t privileged enough… Or was I thinking of Wake Forest…? At least they’ll have the trendiest Spanish student exercises in the country.

100 Million iTunes.

by Rob Friesel

They did it. Apple sold 100 million songs via the iTunes Music store. It’s neat to see all the songs that ppl d/l’d to help them win iPods. I have to say though… It’s nice to see that a song with a little class was the winning track. And does anyone else find it appropriately […]

itunes sharing (3).

by Rob Friesel

Still more on this issue with iTunes… This time zero’ing in on — SURPRISE!! — not the network but something about that particular version iTunes (4.6.0.15). Observed last night that not only can the iTunes library on Detonator-3 not get shared to the other clients, it can’t seem to connect to the iTunes Music Store. […]

itunes sharing (2).

by Rob Friesel

Following up on my post from 7-11 about the woes of iTunes sharing over the home LAN… First off, I have not changed the configuration of said LAN. I’m convinced that I’ve got this “right” and that there’s just some minor point that I’ve overlooked. Or else some overzealous default security settings…? I’m leaning toward […]

confessions of a wannabe sysadmin.

by Rob Friesel

Meditating here on trying to finish up this network set up esp. w/r/t/ getting the wired and wireless networks properly bridged. I’d tried a couple of configurations and have ultimately decided on the below: According to my sources (chiefly, Apple’s …for OS X (PDF) and …for Windows (PDF) Airport network design manuals), the above is […]

Konfabulicious.

by Rob Friesel

To follow up on my Konfabulator post from late May… And while I’m a little late on this: Daring Fireball’s ‘Dashboard vs. Konfabulator’. As I said before, I liked the idea behind Konfabulator but I had a few issues with it. I liked how the widgets looked. I didn’t like how cluttered they seemed to […]

CDDB.

by Rob Friesel

Neat article on Wired about Gracenote. My favorite part: ‘If every user of an iPod had to take their CD collection and hand-type everything in, how many iPods would really get sold?’ said Gracenote CEO Craig Palmer. ‘If they couldn’t do that, then how big would this market actually be?’ While I must admit that […]

wishlist.

by Rob Friesel

PCMCIA card adapter that plugs in via Firewire. (Instead of these that we have seen simply quite enough of…) Firewire based 802.11g adapter for the older iBooks. Similar to the Netgear MA111 USB adapter. But G. And Firewire. Tabber browser (or browser plug-in) that reminds me of the referrer of a given page that has […]