November 7, 2007 • 8:05 pm 0
Det gælder desværre ikke overalt i systemet. ÆV
(….de satans prikker! forsvind!)
Filed under: Leopard, få dig et liv, irritationer, jovialt, mac os x
November 6, 2007 • 10:28 pm 0
Det ny Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, er nice! Så er den klaret.
Leoparden byder dog på nogle ret teknisk saftige nyhder. Det er IKKE dem alle taler om; bluetooth AD2P hist og imap notes synchronization pist. Næh nej.. der er skam langt mere indviklede ting at prøve at få hovedet omkring (dårlig undersætning – i know).
Tag for eksempel External Accounts, der lader dig have hele din hjemmemappe på en usb nøgle!
Eller Quarts Composer + Dashcode som giver dygtige folk mulighed for at lave sindsygt vilde widgets. Den Jeg har taget billede af er bare en default der følger med. Det er en 3D terning-ting man kan dreje ved at hive i den.
Og hvad med Time Machine! Den fantastisk avancerede backup løsning. Som aldrig er blevet tænkt så simpelt.
Tjek dem ud!
Filed under: AD2P, External Accounts, Leopard, MacOSX, Quartz Composer
October 28, 2007 • 4:33 pm 0
I mentioned the brand spanking new version of mac os x (1.5) Leopard, in my last entry.
However, immersion takes a while, and this is the first day that I actually swam like a fish with spaces.
Here’s how it works IRL. Spaces lets your have more than one desktop. The files don’t move, but everything else does. What I did to make everything work automatically, was setting up spaces thouroughly in system preferences. Like which apps go where when launched.
Space#1 :
iChat, Mail, Adium, Stickies, Skype and Address Book. In other words, pretty much averything to do with communication.
Space#2 :
Safari. This is my casual web surfing couch 
Space#3 :
iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, basically my iLife petri dish.
Space#4 :
Coda, FireFox, DashCode, iWeb, PixelMator which are basically all my tools (right now) when getting geeky. (ode to firebug)
My take on it:
it works! in fact it works GREAT! It’s like awakening an ancestor of Exposé, the missing link that makes for total multitasking without the clutter of a 100 open windows.
my verdict: WAUW!
Noteworthy is that DashBoard is Omnipresent and files on the desktop acts like an anchor and don’t change when changing “rooms”. This will probably be one of the first spaces hack, since this is like a relic feature to all unix people. Just a guess.
Also noteworthy is the fact that a 1.st gen. MacBook w.2GB ram, does NOT run Leopard smoothly, when connected to a 23″ display, even though i’m running in closed-lid mode. So much for shared graphics memory!
Leopard does runs faster than Tiger though the experience is not all perfect. A whole lot less spinning beachball, but choppy animation. And so what? you might argue. Why is this a problem? Well, 10.5 is all about evolution of the interface and as such i expected it to be as snappy as an iPod. Its not.
My system is maxed to the bone, and is only about a year old! And even though my laptop mostly sounds like a hairdryer i expected more…
Filed under: Uncategorized
October 27, 2007 • 8:02 pm 0
This is simply an AWESOME screensaver! Absolute numberONE almighty chosen as THE screensaver.
Fenetres Volantes mean Windows Flying in french.
literally watch all of your open windows lightly take off. Behold their flying right back to sit in their respective coordinates. All the while nicely keeping in touch with reality by simply zoom back and create a dimensional space.
5 stars
Filed under: Uncategorized
October 26, 2007 • 10:42 pm 0
It sure is a brand new system. Right now spotlight is indexing all of my files. I connected my keyboard, and am well on my way to see the magic.
First off; spaces is soooo kewl. It’s actually a classic feature common in unix window managers, but now it’s in mac os X too. Works as advertized, and damn smooth too on my macbook w/2 gig’s of ram. (it better…)
FYI spaces is a way to manage even more windows than even exposé can handle gracefully.
Second biggy; Cowerflow. Right in the finder. It’s not prone to make it as an everyday tool thats absolutely indispensable. But for browsing your movie library on on your networked storage, it completely rids the need for dedicated software, and adds that special feeling of theatre that i’ve been looking for.
Third; take control off remote computers via ichat. This is awesome. Equip your parents with mac doped with mac osx Leopard, and you can remedy their frustrastion from your own couch! nice…
All in all…. Leopard lives up to hype fully, with a pinch of excitement.
Filed under: Uncategorized
October 21, 2007 • 9:52 pm 0
Faktisk har jeg netop siddet med begge(!) arme overhovedet og jublet som en 5årrig der fik en iPodTouch at lege med… Som jeg har skrevet tidligere, har jeg valgt at fokusere udelukkende på apple’s services indtil de ikke længere dækker behovet. Total Immersion.
Desværre slog C mig på stregen mht først at få .mac, men idag fandt jeg endelig min registreringskode. Den lå gemt i junk-mappen… ihhh. Men fra nu af er der ikke længere nogen bånd der binder mig. Mit web-galleri har ikke virket endnu, muligvis pga. min mgl. bruger-unikke url. Men nu er den her!
Tjek den her:
web.mac.com/patrick.dk
der burde ligge noget inden for et par timer!
Yes mand! så skal der bare nørdes på højtryk. Hjemmeside (se også christmads.dk), blogs, billedalbums, kalender, iweb, podcasts etc.
P.S. : definition af nørderi:
når man på egen hånd finder ud af funktionalitet og potentiale af computerrelaterede løsninger. For udenforstående vil dette tilsyneladende kræve adskillige timers tidsspild. Mens som man siger; intet er forgæves.
P.P.S. : dette er officielt den første frynsegode!
Filed under: Uncategorized
October 16, 2007 • 8:17 pm 0
Elgato’s Turbo.264 er nyeste anskaffelse. Det er en lille sort usb dims på størrelse med en æske tændstikker. Der er en lille meget dedikeret CPU der gør det MEGET hurtigere at gemme film i det rigtige format til iPod’en. Ovenikøbet på en simpel måde.
Alt hvad der kan spilles i quicktime (med diverse plugins) f.eks .avi, .wmv, divx, xvid etc. kan nemt transcodes / konverteres til iPod formatet AVC/ H.264. Man trækker blot materialet ind i vinduet. That’s it.
Jeg har netop sat den igang med at “om”kode en .avi film, jeg kiggede på uret og der står 20:20. Nu må vi se hvor lang tid det tager. Den svinger lidt mht. hvor lang tid den selv tror det vil tage, men lad os nu se.
Update:
Så er der 5 min. tilbage iflg. programmet selv hvilket lyder meget troværdigt. Det tager altså 35 min. at kode en film på 100 minutter.
WAUW!
Det tager nomalt næsten 2 timer! Jeg bruger en lille 1. generation macBook med 2GB ram.
Kvaliteten er god nok, taget i betragtning at jeg komprimerer allerede komprimeret materiale. Jeg har netop sat Turbo.264 igang med en rippet dvd. Iflg. Apple’s h.264 faq skulle jeg få samme kvalitet for halvdelen af DVD’ens bitrate. Glæder mig til at se resultatet.
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En grundig FAQ vedr. h.264 formatet.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/faq.htmlm
Filed under: Uncategorized
September 25, 2007 • 6:29 am 0
Læst på Ars (mest troværdige site hvad angår tech news) :
The Marketwatch piece names the Scandinavian carriers Telenor and TeliaSonera as two parties that are actively talking and/or begging Apple to get the iPhone. Telenor and TeliaSonera are both big players in the Scandinavian telecommunications arena, with both companies operating in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Telenor also has some diverse interests in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Filed under: Uncategorized
September 23, 2007 • 10:28 am 0
Smadder Smart; Sad netop og hamrede nådesløst på min mellemrumstast (spacebar). Vupti! Så genstartede lortet! Tasten virker ikke altid efter et kaffe-uheld. (lidt uheldig er man vel altid).
Sikke en smart lille funkton. Helt sikkert noget mac’en har lært for sin egen sikkerheds skyld…. (?) Gad vide om der findes et program der kunne sige “Press and hold mouse to avoid.”
Filed under: Uncategorized
