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Entries for March, 2004

Links…

My friend, Jay, after seeing my post about the text-only browser Lynx pointed out Links. And I found this nice OS X savvy installer by Scott Lahteine after digging around for a bit. The installer gave an error, but when I typed “Links” in the Terminal, it launched anyway. Works fast and [...]

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Bluetooth Printer for your 3650…

Engadget writes about “HP’s new mobile printer with built-in Bluetooth, the Deskjet 450wbt, which can wirelessly print photos taken with Nokia’s 3650, 6600, 6620, and 7650 cameraphones.” I would guess that it would work with your 12-inch, too. Pretty cool…

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MacUpdate Update…

I’ve had a pleasant correspondence with Joel Mueller from MacUpdate this afternoon that has put to rest any concerns I had about MacUpdate’s practices. I’ll return to linking to them in the future.
Although it appears that Lon Hutchison is associated with MacUpdate, he acted on his own in flaming my post to the dealmac [...]

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Bluetooth Snarfing Statistics from CeBit…

Saw this on /.: Martin Herfurt (of Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, mBH, Austria) has posted this pdf report called “Bluesnarfing @ CeBIT 2004,” discussing the statistics of an experiment conducted at CeBIT. The good news, no 3650s were successfully ’snarfed, according to his numbers, although 28 3650s were in attendance comprising 3.1% of the [...]

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PuTTY for your 3650…

Saw this over at Gizmodo. Check out PuTTY for Symbian OS:
PuTTY is a free SSH client developed by Simon Tatham and others. This page contains a port to the Symbian OS, with support for Series 60 (Nokia 3650, 6600, and N-Gage) and Nokia 9200 Communicator series (Nokia 9210, 9210i, and 9290). The current version [...]

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Hate e-mail…

Well, crap. I angered some guy named Lon Hutchison over on the Deal Mac forums, because I pointed out the problems that I have had with MacUpdate in the past. Here’s the forum thread in question. This guy anonymously posted a reply attacking me in the thread, which I hope they will [...]

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12-inch Xgrid…

I saw an article somewhere about this article about Apple’s Xgrid and it looks very interesting. I downloaded it and installed a copy on my 12-inch and the G5. When I get home, I might install it on Kristin’s 12-inch. If I can figure out how to get this working properly with [...]

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Bring Out the Gimp!

If you’re like me, you like free. Rather than spending lots of money to buy Photoshop, Illustrator, and all the high end graphics programs you can find, you should check out Gimp.app, a “self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X.” It is open source, requires X11 to [...]

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Share2Blue2th on TechTV’s Call for Help Postponed…

For those of you awaiting news of this, according to chats with Cat, Share2Blue2th will most likely be mentioned on Call for Help in about a month.

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HALO review: Part 2

Look over here for part 1 of this review.
I’ve been using the HALO Wireless Bluetooth Headset from Solteras with both my Nokia 3650 and my 12-inch for several days now and the battery is still going. This product has amazing battery life. The sound is clear, however, after the first 8 hours of [...]

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Possible Clue for USB Modem Users Who Want to Use Share2Blue2th…

So, I was digging around in the man pages for the commands that make Share2Blue2th work, and I noticed a snippet in the natd man. Type “man natd” in the terminal to read up on it, but it says that if you are not going to use en0 / en1 (Ethernet and Airport), but [...]

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iChat problems…

Has anyone else been having intermittent problems with the new iChat AV? The Beta wasn’t giving me as much problems as I am now experiencing. I keep getting notifications that “You left the chat” when I didn’t and people have missed sections of conversations that I have sent to them. Looks like [...]

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Rumors: Merlot and new 12-inchers…

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports on the rumored MAC OS 10.4 that is codenamed Merlot, in Alpha, and mentioned in detail over at Mac OS Rumors. Also, O’Grady’s Powerpage reports that new PowerBook G4s will be announced this week, the last of the G4s before releasing G5 Powerbooks. Check it out.

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More from BoingBoing on VLC for iTMS track playback…

Check it out:
DVD Jon on VLC and Apple’s iTunes singles
Jon “DVD Jon” Johansen writes, in reference to VLC’s support for iTunes’s M4P DRM format:

In case you didn’t know, I’m a VideoLAN developer. I reverse engineered
FairPlay and wrote VLC’s FairPlay support. It’s been available in
VideoLAN CVS since January, but the first release to include FairPlay
support is [...]

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