Jacken’s Blog

Entries from January 2006

Apples silence and my Powerbooks echo

January 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Still having problems with looping echo on my Powerbook G4 15″ There’s a new website about the problem, so go there and sign up if you experience this problem.

It’s incredible that Apple has chosen to keep this problem quiet. Instead of admitting that they have a problem with the latest 15 and 17″ Powerbooks. Instead [...]

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Tags: Macintosh · Technical stuff

Waiting time

January 19th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I haven’t had time to update my blog for a while. The last couple of days has been spent trying to hunt down an annoying bug in my IAX client I’m writing. Sometimes when dialing in, my program would not get a notification from the Asterisk server that a call was in progress. So I [...]

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Tags: Asterisk PBX · Cocoa Objective-C · Programming · Technical stuff

Europe is touring again!

January 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Finally a nice video from a live performance of Europe. Watch and listen to Final Countdown here.

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Tags: Weird on the net

Flip4Mac free

January 11th, 2006 · No Comments

I bought Flip4Mac a few weeks ago, and now it’s free. Typical. But go get it. Now you can finally watch Windows Media files directly in Quicktime without having to use Microsoft Windows Media Player for mac, a really crappy piece of software. Even Microsoft think so, so now they recommend you to use Flip4Mac [...]

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Tags: Macintosh · Technical stuff

TomTom totally DumDum?

January 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

So here you have a company that sells GPS navigation equipment. And naturally they don’t want to make software available for a operating system with only 3-5% of users (that studies showed have more money to spend than the average Windows user) But another company called Equinux stepped in and made a program for downloading [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

VU Meter

January 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments

I’ve been hard at work on my IAX client software the last couple of days. I also have re-written a lot of the code. I decided early on that I wanted to have classical VU-meters to display the in and output volume. But I don’t want them to take to much CPU time. So I [...]

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Tags: Asterisk PBX · Cocoa Objective-C · Technical stuff