Archive for September, 2008
I don’t have wifi at work, so I can’t SFTP into my iPhone to update the theme. My *nix skills are a bit rusty (has it changed since 1995?), so here’s my cheatsheet. Of course, you must jailbreak first. Also, make sure you have terminal and curl installed. Upload the new icon file somewhere and [...]
http://www.mse360.com/ Returns search results, natch, but also has separate sections in the results page for blog postings and images relating to the search terms.
I’ve found a few command lines to use ffmpeg to convert to iPod format, and they almost all use the “trell” flag. I kept getting errors, and then I found that it is no longer a valid flag, so it needs to be removed from the command line. And what is “trell”? Not sure – [...]
Just released: TaskData – over the air synchronization of Exchange tasks for your iPhone has launched and available in the iTunes store. Seems a little pricey to me, but that may just be my reluctance to pay anything for functionality that should be built-in. It’s better than multi-step sync. iTunes link ($12.99). UPDATE: To be [...]
I had to markup a file I had in PDF-only format, and a quick search turned up an incredibly powerful and FREE (even for commercial use) tool called PDF-XChange Viewer. In addition to being a lightweight (4MB) and fast PDF viewer (with a portable version and with IE and FF plugins), it also provides markup [...]
Mediamote (iTunes link) is a remote control app that allows the iPhone to control VMC. Not much to look at or in the description: “Mediamote is a remote control for Windows Media Center.” Some more screenshots would be nice. I’m curious how much data is pulled under the REC’D TV, Guide, Live TV, and DVD [...]
I have posted an updated method. I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU USE IT INSTEAD! I leave the below for posterity… NOTE: mencoder is not cutting commercials properly on my system. Everything else is working fine. I’ll post an update when I get it working. Here is how I’m converting SageTV recordings to iPhone-compatible (and Touch/iPod-compatible) [...]
I finally got around to rebuilding my HTPC (does anyone call them that anymore?) yesterday, so now I need to set my sights on getting file conversions working again. I’m pretty set on using DTb for file monitoring and processing control. For transcoding, I was going to use VLC (or possibly Handbrake), but I might [...]
An undocumented “feature” is that it covers up a security hole that 2.0 reintroduced. In 2.0-2.0.2, you could access a number of apps and data (including all of your email) if your home double-tap function was set to the favorites list.
I don’t mean to rag on iTunes, but, as music managers goes, it does kind of suck. I was intrigued by the new Genius sidebar in iTunes 8, though, so I gave the upgrade a spin. The first snag is that the Genius sidebar has to examine every single file before it will start working. [...]