My Junkyard

Since I started this page about 2 month ago I slowly see an increase of visitors. Some of my guests actually wrote something via comments. If I have to believe all the ” experts” only 2% of webblog visitors give feedback or add something via the comments. 

I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to live of this blog I started with zero visitors per day and now I’m up to about 50 visitors per day. The funny thing is that I don’t have a clue where they are comming from…… 

Google searches are not really hitting my pages. I don’t even have a pagerank (help me get it . I’m still wondering how get higher into these search engines. 

Naturally I’ve tried to get more visitors via digg or technorati. But these just temporarily bump my visitors counts. Some of the sites I’ve visited about this subject say that it takes at least half a year to get some steady visitors. I’m not sure if this is the case but I’m sure hoping this will be the case in a few months.

I still have not found out what my motivation is to write things online. I like getting some news out before it becomes “public” on all the major sites. What gets me writing things? I have no idea.

In my statistics I see a lot of people looking for a hack of an operating system called Vista. I’ve written about a one click Vista Activator before. Maybe I’ll take it away, they are just looking for a cheap way into a bad OS . Other products I’ve written about like Medialink to stream music / movies etc. to a PS3 also give a lot of hits. The thing I don’t like is that people are looking for serials instead of a good story about a good program like medialink (no I don’t have shares).

Checking my stats daily was one of the things I did in the first two weeks when I started this blog. Now I check it ones per week. I have stopped looking at it daily because it didn’t make me any happier No or just a few visitors and no clicks on any links on my site. They probably just left as soon as they entered the page. 

I like to receive some feedback on this post. Maybe you have some good experiences blogging. Let me know ! 

PS probably no-one reads this since I did not add a picture… Hopefully the experts are wrong

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Objectpark released a small update today of their handy tool MenuCalendarClock.

Here’s a list of all the changes:

• Improved: Added warning dialog when MCC is run from the disk image
• New: Full undo support in task inspector panel (better than in iCal)
• New: Danish translation thanks to S. Nielsen
• Improved: Saving a task now shows the task list, if it was hidden.
• Fixed bug: date and time fields in to do inspector were too small for certain locales
• Fixed bug: sometimes the ’show today’ button was disabled when it shouldn’t

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Yes, it’s here, the updated version of Leap. Ironic software just released it. just start Leap and it will automaticly detect there is a new version. After downloading the 7139kb of data it will install the new version.

If you have bought the Parallels bundle from Macupdate.com be sure to upgrade. It’s free. If you still haven’t found your serial number… Just check your receipt on the mupromo.com site.

So what is new in this version of Leap, here’s the list: 

• New feature! – exclude tags and file types by command clicking on them to turn them red
• New feature – the Finder panel is now more consistent in the way it behaves
• Fixed Omni Outliner (+ a few other rare file types) problem where spotlight comments would not be set
• Fixed missing parameter for Apple event problem
• Fixed crash where remove tag could crash program in certain situations
• New contextual menu for bookmarks – faster for certain tasks

Fixed spotlight searching problem with multiple word searches when one word only has single character.

For those of you who have no clue of what leap is check out the videos.

For even more information how it works, download the manual.

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For all you Upnp streamers out there, there is a new version of Nullriver’s Medialink.

This version has some great new features.This is what Nullriver says:

We’ve just updated MediaLink to version 1.5 and it includes full Aperture library support, folders support within the iTunes source and a slew of other improvements.

WHAT’S NEW

Version 1.51:  

• Improved streaming performance for fast connections
• Improved memory management for Mac OS X 10.5
• Improved stability for Mac OS X 10.4

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later

A PlayStation 3 with a network connection

iTunes for iTunes sharing (free download from Apple’s site)

iPhoto for iPhoto sharing (part of Apple’s iLife suite)

Aperture 2.0 or later for Aperture photo sharing

So if you own a Playstation 3 download this application and give it a try. I’ve been using this application for a while now and it keeps getting better and better! 

At the moment I have no clue what the other improvements are, so let me know !

UPDATE

Medialink 1.53 is available now to, apperantly there was a bug which is fixed now.

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I’ve seen that many of my visitors are looking for information on how to install Visigami. 

For those who don’t know what Visigami is please check this link.

Ok I know what it is and I want to install it:

Screensaver

If you want to install the screensaver then just doubleclick on the file “Visigami.saver” it will put the screensaver where it belongs and install it for you. You can then select the Visigami screensaver via the systempreferences(yes the screensaver is there all the way down). 

Application

Installing the application is also quite simple, just drag the “Visigami” file to the programs in your finder. Voila, it’s installed  

Enjoy the program!

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This morning we’ve said that Times will be updated shortly. Now it’t updated to version 1.0.2 and with the following improvements:

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Wow normally when new software arrives and you read about it you still have to see it before you know if it’s any good. Well, Dustin MacDonald  has something new for us.

How about reading RSS feeds like a newspaper? Doesn’t that look like great fun?

Times is capable of showing the full feeds with all pictures etc. Really cool way of thinking.  I’m gonna test this although I already know it’s great. There are a few bugs, but a new release is set to go online within hours.

Times runs fine on all macs running Leopard ONLY.

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It has happened to all of us. The computers harddisk stopped working. Whoops, you forgot to make a back-up and still needed some files that are only on that disk..

There are several companies who can probably retrieve data for you, but these companies are charging pretty much. However if you really NEED the data on the disk you might want to try these instead of messing with it yourself.

Bernard Belanger made a document of how you might fix this yourself. It only works if the drive is still detected by the os and spinning. If you hear a “clicking sound” this might be the place for you.

At geeky projects they have several solutions depending on the type of failure.  You can find to page here.

Good luck if your disk is broken, hopefully this helped you to get back that important files! 

If you have found other good resources to fix disks let me know via the comments!

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Visgami is develloped by employees of google. Reading about it on the “Official Google Mac Blog” got me interested.

You can use it as an Image search application or as a screensaver. Currently Visigami can search from three different image sources: Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr.

Visit the the Project home page . It’s published as open-source. Be sure to try it!

You can download the application here. Have fun !

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For the most of us it’s impossible to remember all these keystrokes within macosx. So this guy made a really handy sheet.  Check it out if you own a mac!

http://fredscapes.nl/2008/04/25/the-mac-os-x-keystrokes-guide/ (old version)

UPDATE For those who don’t read the comments, there is an update. You can get it at the following location: http://www.miniguidez.com/macosx/keystrokesguide/

Thanks Fred for the update!

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Last.fm I’ve seen this application in some profiles of user of different forums I read. Never knowing what last.fm is I tried it. The application is available for several platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux!

What is last.fm according to last.fm:

Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you.charts and quilts for your personal site, as well as much more.

You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area,

After the registration,downloading and installing the application it becomes a little unclear. It asked me if I wanted to upload my Itunes library so It could figer out my taste of music.  Ok, let’s try it. After the ok it takes a while for last.fm to generate my music profile(there is a basic profile for you directly) so I decided to wait a day after this. Returning to last.fm I can visit my profile page , nothing special there I think, I can see how many times I’ve played certain songs…nice. But I can also get information of the artists behind the music by just clicking around and play their songs… Hmm, why do that, I have them on my mac?

Ok, in the application I have several options, for some option you have to be a paying member, fine. Maybe I’ll become that if I get this application.

I decide to press the play button. It immediately starts playing a song and it’s not in my Itunes Library. Nice song to. I decided to click the “love this song button”. Next up there is a House/Trance song, click BAN, don’t like that kind of music.

In the preferences you can set how long you want to listen to a song, I decided I wanted the whole song, but you can select a shorter time.

After a while of Banning and loving (you can also skip, when your not loving or hating) I’m starting to understand this application. I get better music everytime and start generating my own personal playlist. The good thing about this is that you also get music you’ve never heard before! Really cool!

I’ve never listened to Itunes anymore since I’ve downloaded this application. All kinds of music with great information (see picture above).

Start your own radiostation

This is a paid option, I haven’t tried, but I think it enables you to play your music anywhere around the globe. You can embed it into a website etc. I might try this soon.

If your still reading this and like to listen to music download this. It’s a great even if you don’t use the paid options. There is also an alternative to last.fm, it’s called Iscrobbler 2.1.2. What Iscrobbler got going for itself is that its free, I will write about that soon.  I’ll go intro scrobling then to.

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One of the things that annoyed me when I bought my mac was that I could not minimize all windows as I was used to in Windows. One way is to use “command – m” but that only minimizes the active application. So what else is possible?

The following command gave me more or less what I wanted. 

Command – h  ;It doesn’t minimize all windows but it ” hides” them. So they won’t move to the right side of your dock as apps would if you minimize them ( “Control – m” )

To go back to your application you can easily go thrue them with “Command – Tab”.

Hopefully this helps you like it helped me. If you have any other good solutions please let me know via the comments. 

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