I have a network in my house with a lot of devices connected in different ways. I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless g router as my access point. Plugged in to that is a DLink gigabit switch. Plugged into that are 3 Macs and Linux server. I also have a Windows [...]
I came across this tidbit of information at macosxhints.com that shows you how you can get push email functionality from Apple’s Mail client using Gmail.
the only things you need to do are:
1. Go into Mail » Preferences » Accounts (Advanced) and make sure that Use IDLE command if the server supports it [...]
I’ve been using the Sapphire plug-in for Front Row as a media centre application for a few months now. I like it because it creates virtual directories of TV shows for me. So, I just dump whatever I’ve downloaded into the TV directory, and Sapphire organizes it in a coherent way for me [...]
Happy birthday to me! I just picked up a new toy today. I’ve been wanting to get a digital SLR for quite some time now, and I had a chance to play with one earlier this month when my mother got one as a birthday gift (hi Mom!).
So, after a lot of research, [...]
Versions, a Subversion client for Mac has finally been released in beta form after a year of development. I’d completely forgotten about it, until they emailed me. In fact, I don’t even remember signing up for any development notices. Anyway, it’s free to download, but it expires on July 1st. I [...]
Having a Mac mini as a home theatre PC is great because it allows me to listen to my music collection on my living room sound system. Doing this requires an iTunes library though, so I’ve been looking for a way to synchronize the library on the mini with the library on my iMac.
This [...]
In an earlier post, I was looking for ideas for a home theatre PC. I had no preference at that time, I just wanted something elegant that played all of the popular video encoding formats.
Sean suggested I take a look at the Apple TV, and I remembered hearing that it was easily hackable, and [...]
Man, monoprice.com is awesome! I just bought a 6 ft DVI to HDMI cable, a 6 ft toslink to mini stereo cable, and 100 ft of 18 AWG in-wall speaker cable for $37.17 including shipping. You’re not going to find a better price than that anywhere!
I’m using all this in my new HTPC [...]
I’m finally joining the ranks of HDTV owners next week, and that presents me with a decision to make. Currently, I have a standard definition TV with an XBox running XBMC.
This setup works great for me now, but the problem is that the XBox doesn’t do anything but standard def. That puts me [...]
I recently had need to change the permissions of a large number of files and directories. The directories needed permissions of 755, and the files needed 644. Since there were several nested directories, this was going to be a real chore until I figured out you could use the find command to help.
find [...]
