Jacken’s Blog

Here’s a quick picture of my finished Cyburg Needles speakers. First time I do any wood crafting, and they sound great! Next up, a pair of Jordan Transmission Line speakers.

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In my quest to make a nice sounding bedroom stereo for a small budget, I bought a Sonic Impact T-Amp. To really make the most of it, you need to modify it to get more bass. Naturally I had a bit of a misshap when I slipped with my soldering iron and destroyed one of [...]

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This looks promising. For some reason Apple forgot one of the reasons iPod got successful. The ability to play a commonly used format, mp3. They crippled the Apple TV so that it only plays h264 encoded videos. But now the hacking community are fixing this. And it’s not the first time. I used to have [...]

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After spending the whole of saturday in bed suffering from a bad hangover, I managed to finish my first add-on module for Drupal.

I’m planning to change the mail system at work, because we now use an old outdated system. The one I’m looking at that I think is most promising is the Zimbra mail system. [...]

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There’s been a lot of discussions about the MacHeist bundle. And I must agree with some of the critique on how to share the loot between the MacHeist gang and the Independent developers. But one thing is for sure, If I had not bought the bundle, I would never have discovered an amazing piece of [...]

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I’m looking forward to see what Apple manages to do with the TV thingamagook. I hope that they learned some lessons with the iPod. Like putting in support for MP3 and other formats. So hopefully they will add support for DiVX etc. But now when they are content providers as well, my guess is that [...]

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Update: I now got a beta version of the software that partially fixed some of the problems. It still does not seem to work correctly with an other antenna.

I was out shopping yesterday with my family. And sometimes you just have to get some new gear. So I bought a Pinnacle PCTV USB DVB-T receiver. I [...]

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I got a new Bluetooth Apple Mighty Mouse a couple of weeks ago, and let’s face it, Apple can not design a mouse. The Bluetooth reception is good, and so is the battery life, but it has several problems. To get it to right-click is a gamble. Yes, I know you have to lift your [...]

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I found this great bittorrent client called Xtorrent. And what a lovely application. It’s still in beta, but it works like a charm. This is now my preferred bittorrent client.

So what’s so nice about it? Well, how about being able to do torrent searches inside the app? A very nice interface? Easy handling of [...]

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I stumbled across this great webmail application called RoundCube. If you ever used Apples Mail program, you feel right at home. It’s still an early beta version 0.1, but already it’s very usable. Even on my over crowded G4 server it feels snappy. So this is a project I will keep my eyes on. First [...]

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