Since I’ve started using a mac I have used this application. All it does is download great photo’s and put them on your desktop. This really works perfect and I have never has so many nice backgrounds. It’s possible to just keep one but it’s much nicer to use the autochange function. This provides you with a new desktop every few minutes or hours (depends on what you want). The apllication is free but if you use it you might want to donate some money to the developer.

You can find the application by following the link below.

Before I forget, it’s mac only……

http://desklickr.isnot.tv/

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So you have bought a new Iphone and want to use it with another provider?

Sinds today(thanks Dev_TEAM)  it’s not a problem anymore.
Just follow a few steps and you’ll be on your way and enjoying the great Iphone on your network by choice

To download the redsn0w torrent please follow this link http://thepiratebay.org/user/iphonedev/

You can find more information about the new release of Dev-TEAM here : http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/137214493/whats-old-is-new-again

Have fun and don’t forget to let me know if you have any questions or issues.

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They have done it again at Macheist. The’ve come up with some great new softwarebundle for our mac.

Want to buy it be sure to use this link : http://www.macheist.com/bundle/u/113155/

It gives me some extra’s and you to.

The following apps are included:

iSale $39.95
Picturesque $34.95
SousChef $30.00
World of Goo $20.00
PhoneView $19.95
LittleSnapper $39.00
Acorn $49.95
Kinemac $299.00
WireTap Studio $69.00 (unlock)
BoinxTV $199.00 (unlock)
The Hit List $69.95 (unlock)
Espresso $80.00 (unlock)
Big Bang Board Games $24.95

Total Value $557.75

Bundle Price $39

Go get it now http://www.macheist.com/bundle/u/113155/

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You got bored with your current wallpaper? I think i have found a great tool for that.

You want to instantly change it? Or maybe every 5 minutes? Download Desklickr

It’s a small app but it does what it promisses and that’s more then we normally get

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Apple made Safari 4 Beta available today. The list of features looks promissing and I’m on my way to download this new browser as soon as I finish this post.  What seems to be a really nice feature is the new top sites feature. This enables you to browse thrue sites like you scroll thrue you media in Itunes coverflow. For all you people still attached to your Windows machine, it seems to integrate much more with your OS then before. Let me know if it works for you!

Well enough said, lets download it and see if it does what it promisses.

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Ok so, have you downloaded the new PS3 Media server software? Have you got it to work? Or did you get this:

Don’t worry about it , this is how I solved it.

First click the ” general configuration” tab. You can select you native language here if you like.

Probably you are running vm-ware or have multiple network port defined and PS3 Media Server selected the wrong port.

Select the port network port that you use. If you are not sure check your mac’s network settings in your system preferences.

In my case I have selected interface ” lo0″ which is the standard interface on my Imac.

After that enter you macs ip-adres in the ” force IP of the server” field. Don’t mess with the port option , you should be fine….

Once that is done save your work.

Restart the http server or just quit and restart to see if the application detects your ps3 now. If not search on you PS3 for media servers. It can take a little while.

If you get this following screen your done:

If you don’t get the screen above something is still wrong.

Let me know what you log says and maybe I can help you.

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I’ve been a fan of medialink since the beginning as you know, but there was always one thing missing…..

Subtitiles, medialink can’t encode data to stream. I’ve asked them if it would be available some time ago, this is the answer I got:

Subtitles are not supported by the console, the only way to add subtitles would be to re-encode the movie with subtitles burned into the video in the actual image. And realtime encoding isn’t currently possible on the Mac

You can use certain software to re-encode the video by hand and burn the subtitles in, far from ideal.

If you installed medialink on your mac just leave it there, it’s fine for most of the stuff you want to play. However now there is a new kid on the block…..and it’s GREAT!

PS3 Media Server!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, it can do a lot of things and it’s being updated pretty often and best of all it’s for FREE

Currently it supports the following features:

Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.

Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth

DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder

OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding

Thumbnail generation for Videos

You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!

All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play

Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)

ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files

Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb

Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer

Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support

If you own a linux or windows machine (some people still do ) it also supports :

Lossless 5.1 PCM transcoding with DTS movies

Remux video and remux/reencode all audio tracks to AC3/PCM in real time with tsMuxer

FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support

I’ve installed it on my Mac and it works great, I ran into a few configuration setting that I had to set. I will come back on how to install in a next post.

Whoops almost forgot to place the links to this great software:

To the google code pages please

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For al you who are trying to get your mac to stream media to your PS3. Here it is, a new version of Medialink.

Personally I still haven’t found a better media streamer. Try it and see for yourself. 

You can download it here

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Tonight I decided to find out what kind of media servers that use Upnp (universal plug and play) there are for a Mac that support the Playstation 3. To watch video and play music on your PS3 streaming it to the Mac.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I currently use Medialink which is fine, but maybe there are good alternatives?

Here is the list

Mediatomb (open source)

Fink (open source, not sure if it supports the PS3)

TwonkeyMedia (commercial, 30 day trial)

Medialink (commercial, 30 minute trial)

Allegro media server (commercial, time limited trial)

That’s it for now , I’ll add more later Don’t be shy to report more media servers for the Mac that support the PS3

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I was really excited to see that Spore would be released by Electronic Arts this weekend. Now I’m not that excited anymore. I don’t really have games on my Mac, simply because I haven’t bought any except the ones that came with a software bundle I bought on the internet. 

Trying to find some info about Spore I found several sites reporting NOT to buy this game? Why? 

It seems EA put in some crazy security thingies that makes life pretty hard. I read that you can only install the game 4 times? If you would like to install it for the fifth time (for whatever reason) you’ll need to contact EA and say please to get another serial code. 

Another reason not to buy the game is DRM and SECUrom it’s protected and messes with you internal PC. Sending all kinds of info towards EA!!!

So I decided not to buy this one , thanks a lot EA for putting this junk in! 

For the people who want to try the game anyway…. good luck

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Yes, I’m still in need for a good usenet download application for the mac. Since I’ve started my search for a good binary downloader for my mac I started missing my windows machine…. Not really I still have windows on my Mac, but only for easy downloading from the binary groups… For now I use nzbdrop but I steel think this is not what I need however it does the job if you have a NZB file. I’ll try and put down some working methods later this week to see if any of you can help me improve my working scheme…

Leave a comment if you want!

I see a lot of people looking for a download link to nzbdrop. You can download it here!

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In my previous post I started looking at a suitable usenet grabber. Basicly all I wanted was an application which made it possible to download stuff in an easy way.

The application should be easy to use and do as many tasks for me as possible. So basicly I just want to drag and drop .nzb files into the application and the downloading should start. Multiple server support is not needed since I don’t use multiple servers at the moment. 

Below you can see the list of apps I’ve tried.  Unfortunatly Igrabnews seemed like the best option for me but it seems unsupported and outdated for Leopard at the moment.

Conclusion is that I have NOT found an application that fullfills my need. As I mentioned before I used ALtbinz before on my Windows based machine and will now start using it in a windows emulator on my mac.  Simply because the application is so damn good. It does the downloading / parring and unrarring automaticly! Maybe I’ve missed the one application that does this on a mac, if so please LET ME KNOW…

For all you mac devellopers out there maybe you can have a look at Altbinz and come up with something similar for my mac. I know I’ll instantly buy and use it!

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If you are a switcher like me (throw out all your windows machines and buy a mac ) then there are some hurdles to take. One of them is finding good replacements for your usenet activities. If you’re not familair with usenet here is a good place to start.

In my old situation I always used altbinz which is by far (I think) the best and easiest to use usenet client on the windows platform. It’s freeware so give it a try if you still use a windows pc. Don’t forget to sent the authors some money if you keep using it, you will, trust me.

So I did some searches on the internet and came up with some usenet clients I would like to try. Here’s the list:

• Unison
• Thoth
• Igrabnews
• NZBDrop

If you know another good application that needs to be added to this list please let me know!

At the moment I have no clue if these program do what I want them to do. I will install them one by one (if suited for leopard) and come back to you with my conclusions.

The application I want needs to be easy to use (support nzb-files) and basicly take as much work out of hands as possible (that why I like altbinz so much).

The result will be posted here shortly.

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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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