…just to, sort of, slow down the hype.
To all visitors from Digg et al: This is only a braindump of ideas. Nothing here, including the name is set in stone or even being worked on currently.
from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMac?action=show&redirect=Ubuntu.Mac
I assume everybody who is interested has found out by now, that you can subscribe to Flickr RSS feeds with the new iPhoto ’06 to have them show up as what Apple calls Photocast. The bad thing about it is that several infos are lost and mainly the feed only contains the small images.
A witty macosxhints user has reacted immediately and set up a little web application to convert the Flickr feeds for subscribing in iPhoto ’06, check it out below:
Thank you 3eyes (John Evans) 🙂
edit:
thanks to Jason who pointed me in the direction of a very similar service, with a few extra features, called photocastr.
Aside from all the Mac frenzy over todays Keynote by Steve Jobs there was another interesting announcement: Google Earth for Mac.
I won’t write anything here about all the Apple announcements from Macworld’s opening, because you can read about it all over the place and I would just be duplicating old news 😉
Google Earth runs on Mac OS 10.4 and up and is coming out of beta status as of today. All of you who illegally took a sneak peek at it via the leaked beta should update as well, because there are a few features which weren’t quite ready in the leaked version.
edit: looks like it’s PowerPC only! Not very wise, after the first Intel Macs got announced today 😉
I thought I’d post a little howto on how I try to keep the data on the hard drive of my little iBook save. So without further ado… here it is:
Next I partitioned the hard drive (using HFS+ for maximum compatibility under OS X) with one partition serving as the mirror for my internal 60GB disk. The rest of the disk is used as backup space for other data, right now we’ll only care about the mirror drive.
it as the startup disk in Mac OS X’s System Preferences and restarting the OS. It started up perfectly and I had the exact same system in front of me, except for the fact that it was running off the external FireWire drive and the internal disk was completely powered down.
Again Google was my friend and after a few searches I came up with Synchonize! Pro X which has loads of options for possibly every synching need you might have or develop in the future. At the moment I’m just using the “Bootable System Backup” option to synch my internal disk with the external one.I know it might not be perfect to do this just “whenever I think of it” (which is currently about twice a week) but it is still far more effective than my previous non-backup strategy which I kept running for over one year. Especially considered that I’m using my iBook on the road (at uni, at work etc.), always carriyng it around in my backpack which exposes it to the high risk of being damaged easily. With my current solutin my data is safe and I could even go to any arbitrary Mac, plug in the external drive, reboot and have my usual working environment running on the system.
edit: I know I could have maybe used Synchronize! X Pro for the entire progress of cloning and synching my hard drive. The reason I chose the detour over CCC was that I initially wanted to choose this programm for the synching as well but encountered that it was painfully slow and not as easy a one-click-solution as Synchronize! X Pro.
Over at the Red Sweater Blog Daniel Jalkut had a quite clever idea of how it might be possible to give some sort of video playing capability to the iPod Nano. He tried using iTune’s chapter marks to assign picture frames to a track. The outcome is quite interessting although playback is a little choppy in iTunes.
Download his experimantal song here.
Sadly copying the song over to his Nano provided even worse results. The iPod simply refused to play back the title, most probably because of the over 800 chaptermarks.