Jacken’s Blog

After reading stuff like this and this, I wonder Is it only me who sees the connection? There’s been a lot of discussions on the net about Apple getting a bit of the Intel “Intel Inside” payoff and if they consider putting the logo on the new macs? My uneducated guess is that Mr Jobs [...]

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I have had a bit of a snag in my program Im writing, so to do something else for a while. So I tried to install Ruby On Rails, a much talked about web developer framework. And after reading all the hype, I just had to see what it was like. So off to Ruby [...]

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So I have tried Apples new photo managing software called Aperture. I uploaded some pictures into it to have something to work with. I also downloaded pictures

that I had taken during the day. The next time I started Aperture, I got a message that the project I had downloaded needed to be repaired. But [...]

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I have had some audio problems with my new Powerbook. A very irritating echo. But after deleting com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist from /Library/Preferences it looks like the problem is solved.

Update: Didn’t work. The machine has been running all day with music on, but I just had en echo episode. Looks like Apple has some stuff to do.

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So I was sitting late at night a weekend and found myself really urging for a beer. But after drinking two beers, I felt like the perfect end of the evening would be a small glass of Laphroaig whiskey. I’m in front of the TV, watching some recorded stuff when I suddenly started to have [...]

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I have been searching for a bug in my IAX client program I’m writing. I thought that there was a problem after running my program that made the output hardware go haywire. But after looking around in the Apple Support forum, I’m not the only one with this problem. When playing back sound in any [...]

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In a couple of weeks I’m getting a 100mbit internet connection. A couple of days ago they spotted a wolf in our neighborhood. Unfortunately it got hit by a car. So I live in a place where I can be connected (cheaply) to the internet fast, live close to the city and still get wild [...]

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Sooner or later Apple will give up and give all owners of a mac the possibility to buy a remote and Front Row. But until then there’s a way of installing it on non-iMac G5 machines. Take a look here.

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