Jacken’s Blog

As you may know I recently released my new program for VoIP for the mac. I have written instructions on the home-page how to get a free account at FWD Free World Dialup to test. It seems they have a lot of downtime, so I get a lot of bug reports. I really need another [...]

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I just listened to the last PodCast from the TWIT guys. They talked about John C. Dvorak’s blog post about Apple possibly switching to Windows. And something interesting showed up during the conversation. They apparently got a lot of emails from “Mac Fanatics” on how wrong Mr Dvoraks article is. And as soon as someone [...]

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So we have another Mac OS X virus warning going around the net. And it’s like reporters must have validation for their hate of the mac. A OS X myth is shattered to pieces - Silicon Valley SleuthI’m sorry to report that it’s not a virus, it’s a trojan, and it does not spread. The trojan poses [...]

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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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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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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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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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