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Category Archives: Life and times of Jacken
So the blog is back in business.
My blog has been down for almost a year. But now I’ve moved it to a new hosting service that looks good so far. The blogs theme is plain vanilla until I have the time to fix it up. But all old information should be here.
iPad, useless expensive toy?
After buying my 32G 3G iPad I was a bit worried that it would become yet another victim of my impulsiveness. The first day with it, I was convinced that I’d get bored within the week and having it ending up on my mountain of cool but never used electronics. But during the weeks I’ve used it, it’s becoming indispensable. Checking out Twitter with Twitter for iPad. Reading news on FlipBoard (which has the most beautiful design of all news readers), answering mails, making plans with OmniFocus for iPad, chatting with IM+ and using the calendar (naturally synced to Google Calendar) for booking appointments. It’s now an essential part of my daily life. I’m also starting to hate the noise of my Macbook. With the iPad, it’s really quiet.
Problem with flickering screen on iPad fixed in iOS 4.2 beta 2
I’ve had problems with my new iPad, where the screen would flicker when the brightness was set to a low setting. Very irritating. My first fear was hardware problems but after upgrading to the latest beta version of iOS, 4.2 beta 2 the problem is fixed! Yay! No need to replace my beloved iPad.
Update A bit too fast, the problem remains.
Terratec H7 and EyeTV on Macintosh
I just wanted to be able to record some TV shows from my DVB-C (ComHem) so I got myself a TerraTec H7 USB DVB-C/T receiver that supposedly works with EyeTV. I already had EyeTV, and the box contains a CI module so I could receive coded channels as well. But talk about a flaky product. The picture pauses every 10 seconds, both in DVB-T and DVB-C mode. When changing channels in DVB-C mode the program info shows up, but when checking the listings, no EPG info is available. I tried to reinstall (and delete all preference files), but the problem persists. I tried it on two different machines, so it’s not the machine. So now I have an expensive USB paper weight.
Should have checked for MythTV support before I bought it. But no…
Update
I’ve just booted my machine in Windows 7 and used Terratec’s own software. Works without a problem, so the fault is ElGato’s EyeTV software.
Trying out an iPad and liking it
My first try to write on an iPad and I’m smitten. Hopefully I’ll get one next week.
Why oh why no Skype through Fring on iPhone
How very irritating. Fring used to work well with iPhones push notification. Now that they dumped Skype functionallity, I have to use Skype. And you need to start the program and hope that it’s not pushed out of memory, because then your offline. Very crappy…
XEN Server
I’ve just finished setting up a XEN server. I moved this blog to ipage.com, but it was horribly slow so I might as well host it myself. Thank god for 100mb internet line from bredbandsbolaget. Next step, trying to setup a MythTV backend. I tried to set up a DOMU with Smoothwall firewall but failed miserably.