Archive for the 'Apple' Category

DRM Sucks (what’s new?)

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In short words:

The Apple TV won’t let you play Rental Movies unless you do have a pristine DRM activated Apple TV, and much more worrisome, it doesn’t work without a proper DRM-enabled HDMI connection cable.

Yes it’s true. And I’m not even talking about HD movies.

It doesn’t work [...]


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Blu-ray for Mac

blu-ray
Dear lazyweb (yes, every day I’m getting lazier and more overwhelmed with the amount of information out there), can you please advice us on a Blu-ray burner that is proved to work in the Mac? It’ll connect to a Mac mini intel. We don’t care if it plays [...]


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Javascript madness - link list

Mario
* Super Mario in 14kb Javascript (blog.nihilogic.dk)

* Time Machine Javascript (jovianskye.com)


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Assorted Links

Just cleaning up the bookmarks toolbar of my Safari…

* Practical PHP Programming (hudzilla.org/wiki)

My original book has been online over two years, and in print as PHP in a Nutshell for one, so now I’m taking it a step further: all the content is available on this site as a wiki. Not only will this make [...]


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Apple TV Take 2

Apple TV Take 2
Get your hacked Apple TV 1.0 (without YouTube) or 1.1 (with YouTube) and follow the simple instructions at Awkward TV Wiki :: Take 2 Safe Update.

Advantages compared to the official upgrade:
- SSH keeps working.

Disadvantages:
- Lack of airtunes working. I’ve managed to get it [...]


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Jar Inspector and Java Decompiler

Jar Inspector

Jar Inspector is an easy to use yet powerful jar file editor. It allows you to effortlessly view, edit and decompile the contents of jar files.

Wow!

Link at Codeland :: Jar Inspector


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Yael Naim - New Soul


(Video)


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Predictions for Apple’s next Announcement

iPhone 3G
Here’s my 2 cents:

- The iPhone 3G will NOT be announced next week. 3G is still not ready for Apple. It will only be announced after the summer vacations, and sold for the christmas ‘08 season.

- There will be a both a smaller laptop, and a new [...]


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Blu-ray vs. HD DVD

Blu-ray vs. HD DVD
Recently I’ve been thinking about improved offline storage capacity solutions to replace some DVD’s we have (you know, when one gets a Mac, the amount of photos and video data increases tremendously), not because we have no more space at home to store them, but [...]


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Web Services for Dummies


Three months ago I was looking for a quick and easy way to publish a “certain” API in such a manner that it could support multiple protocols suitable for every kind of developer taste, from the hard-core masochists of SOAP, to the back-end real-world developers on XML-RPC, going [...]


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