Apple

Ippei released the beta version of HuginOSX (16.4mb .zip-file) with a lot of improvements and some stuff that is mac-specific (i.e. better than on the other hugin-versions). the good panorama solution got better!

[via the ptx-mailing list ]

technorati tags: hugin , huginosx

you might have heard it: apple is releasing tiger, their new flavour of os x. but now mike bombich noted (in this discussion ) that the marvellous carbon copy cloner , a tool i use often now and then to back up my data does not work with tiger. the folks over at tuaw.com say it like so: “Consider my pre-Tiger buzz officially killed”.

[via tuaw.com ]

technorati tags: apple , osx , backup , tiger

this new version of ecto comes with tags. so this is a test

technorati tags: ecto , test

yesterday i went to prolong my contract with my mobile phone provider, so i was able to cheaply get a new mobile phone. after looking at the different mobiles compatible with isync i decided (mostly for monetary reasons) to get the Sony Ericsson K700i .

after trying to sync it with my computer i nearly gave up, because isync always crashed on me in the middle of the syncing process. after countless tries, deleting preference files, rewriting some preinstalled bundles and stuff like that isync notified me of a “duplication warning” with one contact i have in my address-book: the godfather of my sister is in my address book as: Renner Prename & Prename Wife.

(btw: from left to right: bluephoneelite , meteorologist , os x’ bluetooth status, os x’ eject, os x’ airport (off), menu meters cpu, menu meters network, os x’ clock).

the newest revision of apples powerbooks features an accelerometer, that detects if you drop the powerbook and parks the hard disc heads (a thing already found on older ibm-machines). now a guy figured out how to tap into the accelerometer and use it to display all kind of funky stuff (e.g. a window is fixed in space, while the powerbook rotates). this led another guy to program a python script whith which you can control itunes. just give your powerbook a mild slap on the head and it switches to the next song. i see some really funky stuff coming up for those powerbooks….

seems like this document over at apple was pretty good. after i’ve moved 15gb of data everything seems to work… this is posted from my new computer….

i wish i had thought of that!

la fille de zurich posted a list of all the songs that forbid you to do stuff. in the image on the left you can see a list of my don’ts. (it’s a screenshot from itunes, because i can’t fit all songs on my ipod).

what are the don’ts in your playlist?

[via une fille du limmatquai ]

i just bought a power mac :-) i’ve been bidding on it, because i thought, that’s such a cheap prize that i’m never gonna win and was not really inclined to buy it.

ah, well then, so i’ll replace my ibook with something more suited to my needs… and because i’m gonna get more money than i thought from teaching last week (the school didn’t know about my master degree) i can afford it.

the powerbook blog linked to a nice hint on macosxhints.ch (features german translations of osxhints.com , but also original german hints). you might have seen that you can click on any label in a contacts detail (e.g. work address, telephone, etc) to get a nice menu to do things with the data (get it in huge letters all over your screen, look for the map, print label, etc.). since the release of panther coders can add to these menus with little apple-script-effort. the script mentioned in the hints adds an european map search, but i wanted to alter it to use the excellent map.search.ch . after downloading the nice applescript i changed it to this point: